commodity value chain development
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Commodity Value chain Development
Limited knowledge and skills on commodity value chain development
Inadequate linkages between producers, input and service providers,
and other value chain actors
Service
providers
Setup 28 Knowledge centers
Services
Intervention
Value chain
actors
Interventions
30 working papers produced and published on hard copies and electronic copies,
IPMS videos (12) on innovation stories of various commodities produced on
DVDs,
Various brochures and posters on value chain development including Knowledge
management, Capacity development and Commodities,
120 MSc and BSc thesis reports of IPMS sponsored students compiled and availed
on project website,
Articles in national and international journals and proceedings,
Training manuals and toolkits on market oriented commodity development
produced,
Project website established for availing published and unpublished project
documentations.
Technology exhibitions at national and regional levels
Field days, seminars, livestock fairs, conferences and workshops
Distribution of lessons and experiences through DVDs, posters, working papers
Broadcasting good practices through radio and TV, in local languages: Translat-
ing documents to local languages
Traders and
Processors
Output
producers
Input
producers
Onion seed production
Fattening
Market information system
MSC/BSc education, research and in-service training
Fruit seedling nursery
onion storage
AI service Delivery, Apiary input supply
Forage developmen0t breed improvement
Pullet production
Kabuli chickpea production
Improved mango production
Processing and marketing
Output production
Input production
Field visits
Paravet services concentrate feed shops
Market oriented commodity development is context specific and requires interventions based on a diagnosis of the
targeted value chain system.
Market oriented commodity value chain development is a continuous process which requires new knowledge, skills and
partner linkages over time.
Small holders should have increased access to knowledge, skills, inputs and markets.
The provision of input and service to the producers can increasingly be commercialized by private sector partners,
including cooperatives.
The marketing and processing of agricultural outputs can be improved through collective action by the producers and
through increased linkages between producers and traders/processors.
Over time, value chain actors – who add value at different stages of production and processing - can increasingly lead
the value chain development process.
The public sector extension services should be capacitated in market oriented extension to support this process by
gradually changing its role from supplier of inputs and services to knowledge broker and facilitator. Use of IT based
technologies can strengthen these roles of the extension system.
Government can support commercialization process through the development of road and communication
infrastructure, developing a regulatory framework and facilitating business service development.
Public institutions: research
(national and regional), education
institutions agricultural extension
offices at national, regional, zonal
and district levels
Diagnosis of the commodity Value Chain
Inadequate production and supply of inputs
Limited adoption of improved technology
Imperfect market for output producers
Key lessons learned
Improving Productivity and Market Success of Ethiopian Farmers (IPMS) Project
Documentation
Scaling out and up
MFI institutions, cooperatives,
Private businesses, National Artificial
Insemination Center, private input
suppliers service provider,
Knowledge centers
Established technical and market information provision system
Onion seed production
Seedling production
www.ipms-ethiopia.org
Knowledge/ Skills
MoA, EIAR, Education
institutions, private
sectors, consultants,
specialized farmers,
NGOs, students
Input Supply
Services
Cooperative shops,
public enterprises,
vaccine laboratory,
private enterprises
Credit
Microfinance
institutions
Cooperatives
Private industry
Shops
Marketing
Cooperative shops
Public enterprises
NGOs/Projects
Restaurants
Producers
Cooperative milk processing
Improved banana production
onion bulking
Banana ripening