Agricultural Value Chains
Details
Value chains are a key framework for understanding how products move from the producers to the customers. The value chain perspective provides an important means to understand the business to business relationships, mechanisms for increasing efficiency, and ways to enable businesses to increase productivity and add value.
It provides a reference point for improvements in services and the business environment. It is a vehicle for pro-poor initiatives and for linking small businesses with the market. Value chains therefore reside at the core of high-impact and sustainable initiatives focused on improving productivity, competitiveness, entrepreneurship, and SME growth.
This one week course will provide hands-on training in Agriculture value chains and the application of Knowledge to decision making in AVC processes planning and Management to value chain participants and practitioners.
The workshop offers intensive training that will cover the fundamental concepts and tools for scanning and improving AVC. By attending this course, the capacity of Development professionals who are actively engaged in the AVC related support activities in governmental and non-governmental organizations will be built/ enhanced
Outline
- Understanding concept of Value chains in particular Agriculture Value chains
- Understand the structure of various Agriculture based value chains and the Various tools in developing an Agriculture value chain
- Appreciate the need to work with value chains
- Gain insights into the respective actor roles in the value chains
- Approaches to setting up Agriculture value chains
- Value chain financing
- Multi-stakeholder processes in AVCs
- Effective public policy management in AVCs
- Group strengthening
- Strengthening value chain service providers
- AVCs Market intelligence
- Inclusive market systems development
- Analyzing the structure and dynamics of value chains
- Developing value chain strategies to overcome constraints and increase competitiveness
- Increasing the inclusiveness of market systems-Approaches
- Catalyzing private sector stakeholders to collaborate and improve industry performance
- Get basic knowledge of analyzing qualitative data for humanitarian, emergency and development sector programmes related to AVC
- Use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and GPS to gather data, collaborate and share information.
- Communicate findings to stimulate learning and reflection.
Speaker/s
IRES offers technical and management consultancy services as well as education and training services designed for individuals’ and groups from organizations working in public, not for profit and private sectors.
IRES Kenya has identified itself with a niche market that largely comprises of Government ministries, departments and agencies (MDA’s) and UN agencies, Non-Governmental Organizations, from Africa, Europe, Asia, Middle-East and the Caribbean. We have also served academic institutions, international research organizations, financial institutions and private companies from across the globe. As at 2018 we offer our services in more than 15 locations globally.
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