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Value chain upgrading and inclusion of smallholders in markets: Role of multistakeholder processes in dairy development in Tanzania
May 15, 2017 Editor 0
Women members of the Ubiri village dairy innovation platform in Lushoto, Tanzania (photo: ILRI\Niels Teufel). Increasingly, value chain approaches are integrated with multistakeholder processes to facilitate inclusive innovation and value chain upgrading of smallholders. This pathway to smallholder integration into agri-food markets has received limited analysis. An analysis of this integration was carried out by […]
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Community gender profiles help target small ruminant value chain interventions in Ethiopia
November 4, 2016 Editor 0
Men undertake a few tasks, while women engage in multiple activities, illustrating the complexity of their roles. Borana, Ethiopia The design of research and development interventions in Ethiopia has long been hampered by a lack of gender disaggregated data. Working to overcome these data shortages, a participatory rural appraisal (PRA) exercise was undertaken in 2015 […]
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Livestock and Fish pig value chain activities in Uganda
August 31, 2015 Editor 0
A smallholder pig farmer tends to her animal Pig production is a major source of livelihoods for over 1.1 million households in Uganda. Mainly kept by smallholder farmers under backyard systems, the pig is preferred because it grows fast, and eats leftover food and crop residues. It can generally convert poor resources into a high-value […]
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Why the supply chain is as important as the value chain
May 18, 2015 Editor 0
A marketplace in Kampala, Uganda. Photo: Arne Hoel, The World Bank Go to Source
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Innovation and Production in Manufacturing Industry: a Comparative Study about Global Chains
November 24, 2014 Editor 0
A new logic in the capitalist accumulation process has emerged in the last four decades. The hypothesis of the article is that this new logic expresses itself in the manufacturing industry through the increasing segmentation of product innovation and product manufacturing activities, and the integration of two alternative types of innovation activities: informational and aesthetic-expressive. […]
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Technology transfer organizations: Services and business models
October 18, 2013 Editor 0
Publication date: Available online 17 October 2013Source:Technovation Author(s): Réjean Landry , Nabil Amara , Jean-Samuel Cloutier , Norrin Halilem Knowledge and technology transfer organizations (KTTOs) are crucial nodes connecting suppliers and users of knowledge that support the endogenous potential of innovation in firms. Prior studies on the services provided to firms by KTTOs tend to […]
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