Value chain
8 important questions on Value chain
What are the steps of a value chain?
What are the 8 tools of the value chain analysis?
- Maps steps
- Map stakeholders
- Map flows
- Map knowledge
- Map volumes of products
- Map geographic flow
- Map value
- Services
How can intervention upgrade the value chain?
- Horizontal coordination
- Vertical coordination
- Product
- Process
- Function
- 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?
What are the benefits of a value chain approach?
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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