Measuring the Benefits of Smallholder Farmer Membership in Producer-Controlled Vertical Value Chains: Survey Findings From a Development Project in East Africa

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 399-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
David John O'Brien ◽  
Lloyd Banwart ◽  
Michael L. Cook
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Smallholder Farmer

scholarly journals Dairy farm households, processor linkages and household income: the case of dairy hub linkages in East Africa

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 95-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizaphan J.O. Rao ◽  
Immaculate Omondi ◽  
Aziz A. Karimov ◽  
Isabelle Baltenweck
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
Household Income ◽  
Dairy Farm ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Farm Households ◽  
East African ◽  
Milk Market ◽  
Dairy Development

In this study we have analysed the effects of household linkages to milk market via dairy hubs currently implemented under the East African Dairy Development project. Our analyses show that participation in dairy hubs increases dairy revenues by USD 1,022 on average. Impacts are higher for households participating in hubs supplying exclusively to processors (USD 1,673) relative to ones supplying hubs that pursue mixed-linkage approach. Moreover, participation in dairy hubs also yields significant effect on household income. Appropriate measures should be undertaken to widen the reach of such processor linkages while also safeguarding existing gains, more so as the processing sector becomes more concentrated.

scholarly journals Staging Co-Design for a Circular Economy

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3371-3380
Author(s):  
Signe Pedersen ◽  
Christian Clausen
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
List Type ◽  
Type Number ◽  
Design Guide ◽  
Design Value ◽  
Circular Design

AbstractIn recent years major companies such as Philips, H&M and Google have adopted a circular economy agenda to promote sustainability. Design consultancies such as IDEO has developed and promoted a circular design guide to help companies in this endeavour. However, designing for a circular economy often require design and reconfiguration of entire value chains – making the transition towards a circular economy rather difficult. In this paper we analyse a development project from the Danish island of Bornholm to investigate how to align diverse actors across the value chain in a process of co-creating systems for a circular economy. We combine design, value chain considerations and circular economy mindsets to informing negotiations of concerns among actors in the value chain.Such strategical navigation might involve:Staging initial spaces for dialogue with central actors from the value chain and initiates a process of mapping out their concernsStaging a re-alignment space where the diverse actors can meet and interact to discuss and negotiate their concerns and their roles in the networkDesign and enactment of a number of objects to faciliate negotiations

Value chains and regional trade in East Africa: the case of vegetables in Kenya and Tanzania.

2011 ◽  
pp. 149-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. König ◽  
J. Blatt ◽  
K. Brakel ◽  
K. Kloss ◽  
T. Nilges ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Regional Trade

scholarly journals Opening Opportunities: Kenya’s Electronic Single Window Connects East Africa to Global Value Chains

10.1596/26287 ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mupelwa Sichilima ◽  
Aknyi Gikonyo
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
Global Value Chains ◽  
Value Chains

Seaweed mariculture as a development project in Zanzibar, East Africa: A price too high to pay?

Aquaculture ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 356-357 ◽  
pp. 30-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Fröcklin ◽  
Maricela de la Torre-Castro ◽  
Lars Lindström ◽  
Narriman S. Jiddawi ◽  
Flower E. Msuya
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
Development Project

Customer Requirements Management: Methodology Selection and Deployment Guide

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kurt A. Beiter ◽  
Kosuke Ishii ◽  
Harshavardhan Karandikar
Keyword(s):  
Customer Value ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Project Planning ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Customer Requirements ◽  
Planning And Scheduling ◽  
The Right ◽  
Voice Of Customer ◽  
Global Platform ◽  
Product Definition

This paper describes strategies for clarifying the product definition early in the development phase by deploying the right mix of key methods and tools. The focus is on customer value chains, project priority, “voice of customer” acquisition, and requirements flow-down. The tools most effective for each development project differ depending on the nature of the product. The authors noticed that one can characterize the products in two axes: morphology (hardware vs. systems) and maturity (established vs. new), and mapped them into four quadrants. We analyzed over a dozen projects in different industries raging from electronics to industrial equipment, and observed how each sector required and utilized the key tools with different priority. The paper is a guide to efficient deployment of the methods and tools and shows that analysis using these tools contributes to the build-up and management of consensus amongst the product development team and increases the rate of project success. The proposed approach provides guidance on which key tools the project should focus on based on the morphology vs. maturity mapping and contribute to project planning and scheduling and resource allocation between the development tollgates. The paper includes two case studies that represent two ends of the spectrum in our characterization quadrants. We conclude by identifying three major areas of research opportunities in product definition: 1) amorphous products that combine hardware, software, and external infrastructure, 2) integration of solution elements of different forms, and 3) global platform design.

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