Dear colleagues welcome to the Africa APLI Introductory Session (Food Security - Value Chain Development Training). For the next two weeks we'll need to read some papers that will help us know a bit more about the Value Chain Approach (VCA), so please access the link bellow and read the paper that you find there. After this nice reading we encourage each of you to post in our blog some comments or questions about the VCA, we expect during this first week at least one post from each participant. During the week we'll be posting questions about the document and we hope to receive feedback from all of you.
We look forward to seeing yours posts soon.
http://www.microfinancegateway.org/files/31825_file_46.doc
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Is it possible to globalize small firms? How
Value chain is a way that MSE can use to turn it competitive advantage into economic growth.
The projects that promote farmers productivity and food security most incorporate Value Chain to close the cycle. It is necessary to stimulate all the stakeholders to be involved in the different steps of the value chain and teach them how to implement even after the end of a project.
I've just read a few pages of the document and I must confess that the Value Chain concept is new to me. All the same, I find it most interesting and worthy of concentrated consideration. Experiences show that most people living in poverty are most concerned about their next meal. This is why over 80% of such people are directly employed in agriculture, through which they produce mainly for consumption, in their subsistence farming. However, this type of economy can only perpetuate poverty since there is hardly any money left for any other needs like children's school fees and further investments. In view of this, being a part of a value chain industry might be a way out, with many factors to be considered.
It is so good that the paper takes the effect of globalization into consideration because most micro level producers in developing countries are finding it difficult to survive in the global economy where some have access to loans and subsidies among other inputs.
I look forward to the solutions as I read further.
I have not been within network due to area of work.I have read the document partly due to the deadline for the comments.I perused throgh the indtroductory part and went straight to part 3 of the document.I will say that is very educative.The globalization approach seems to be the best solution to small firm and can answer to so many problems of the local producers.All the food security projects needs to be intergrated and to achieve it all in terms of food security and poverty reduction.Value chain is an important factor to food production ,networking and collaboration of all the key stake holders at all levels of production both primary and secondary production is very important for economic growth and poverty reduction.
I will continue reading the document and if any comments before tommorrow i shall be able to forward.
Though iam yet to conclusively read the document(position paper)as posted, having just accessed same a short while ago, i must state that the VCA as a mechanism for policy review and reformation vis a vis revisiting the state and circumstances of the poor,deserves concerted consideration by policy makers across the globe.
More so, when the drive is narrowing the gap between the poor and the rich with a view to repositioning the poor and enhancing their chances of survival against the incidentals of globalisation especially competitiveness which has ironically not helped in actually forcing down price of goods and services to the advantages of the underpriviledged.
i guss as i read on, the VCA should be able to address the implications of such factors as inconsistent policies,multiple taxation and highly retarded funding opportunities which militate against enterprenural growth and survival in and around the world, especially in the developing countries where the issue of poverty reduction is now serving as campaign and propaganda hipes for political ascendancy than honest programmes and objectives of the authorities for bettering the lots of the people.
So if the above is not the case, i would suggest that the VCA should be tailored in such a manner as to provide relevant answers to issues of this nature.
I might be posting more comments by the time i am through with reading the document which has so far proved very fascinating.
I am not through the text yet, but it seems to me that Globalization might in some cases bring economic broadband wealth, but what about the devastating effects on the environment and the lack of competiveness of many MSE regarding multinational supply chains and means for product research? The Value Chain approach needs to be taken into consideration to enable the beneficiairies in our food security projects to contribute to poverty reduction by attaining sustainability in the developped activity regarding a more and more competitive market. Hope to continue to discover ways to address these problems while finishing reading.
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