Value chain

8 important questions on Value chain

What are the steps of a value chain?

Inputs, harvest, cultivation, processing, wholesale, export, import, retail, consumption

What are the 8 tools of the value chain analysis?

  1. Maps steps
  2. Map stakeholders
  3. Map flows
  4. Map knowledge
  5. Map volumes of products
  6. Map geographic flow
  7. Map value
  8. Services

How can intervention upgrade the value chain?

  1. Horizontal coordination
  2. Vertical coordination
  3. Product
  4. Process
  5. Function
  6. New business actions
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Changes in forest and nature value chains:

  • Shift from production of indigenous knowledge to technical knowledge
  • Increasing coordination of activities
  • More complex contractual arrangements
  • More concentration on procurement processes and retailing
  • Increased consolidation (vertical integration)

When to use a value chain approach?

When a chain wants to undue negative impacts, improve positive impacts, create equal benefit for different actors, demonstrating positive effects to stakeholders

What are the benefits of a value chain approach?

Increased smallholder productivity, better incomes and innovations

What are the disadvantages of value chain approaches?

  • some stakeholders are excluded
  • decline in biodiversity
  • decline dietary diversity
  • reproduce inequalities
  • inequitable risk and benefit sharing
  • often lacks genuine representation of producer organisations and smallholders esp. developing countries
  • don't automatically benefit the poor
  • increasing landscape homogenisation resulting from monoculture development      

What are the impacts of the use of value chain approaches?

  • significant standards and new ways of governing forests
  • more dialogue with stakeholders
  • spillover effects: more regulation
  • significant areas
  • long-term and slow-moving effects on consumer practice
  • still dominated by business interest    

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