Agriculture Value Chain Management and Market Linkages

Value analysis is essential in understanding markets, inter-organizational relationships, and crucial constraints that cut development and industry competition. Collaborating among the private sector as well as market actors to deal with value chain restrictions can lead to MBS which are renewable at the end which doesn't alter local markets. The program aims at leading participants toward the advancement of renewable value chains and equipping the participants with principles and practices of the value chain and market linkages management.

PROGRAM OBJECTIVES

• The market systems
• Value chain cycle
• Value chain financing
• Designing and implementing value chain project
• M&E of Value Chain Project
• Risk management in value chain

MODULES

Module 1: Introduction to Agriculture Value Chain

• Definition of value chain.
• Key concepts in value chain.
• Value chain cycle.

Module 2: Value Chain Analysis

• Introduction to value chain development.
• Key concepts in value chain analysis.
• Value chain analysis process.
• Mapping a value chain.
• Tools and techniques in value chain analysis.
• Case study: Value chain analysis.

Module 3: Market Analysis and Development

• Introduction to market analysis.
• Supply, demand, and price setting.
• Standards and certification.
• Analyzing competition.

Module 4: Market Linkages

• Introduction to market linkages.
• Types of market linkages.
• Factors affecting success of linkages.
• Enabling environment in market linkages.

Module 5: Value Chain Governance

• Introduction to value chain governance.
• Importance of value chain governance.
• Types of value chain governance.
• Analyzing value chain governance.

Module 6: Value Chain Financing

• Introduction to Value Chain Financing.
• Type of Value Chain Finance.
• Instruments to promote agricultural value chain finance.