Value Chain Best Practices: Building Knowledge for Value Chains that Contribute to the Health of Source Communities

Tags: Wealth Creation

Client Name: Ford Foundation

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Resource Type: Report

Author Org: Sustainable Food Lab

Author: Susan Sweitzer, Hal Hamilton, Don Seville

Year: 2008

This paper aims to contribute to a tool box of best practices for using value chain strategies, which represent an emerging field in rural development. The objectives of healthy value chains are to better balance risk, responsibilities, and benefits along a supply chain, while improving the quality of production and security of long-term supply.
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