From Farms to Market to Table: The Value Chain Approach

At the 2014 Feed the Future Global Forum participants heard three presentations from value chain experts. The session was moderated by Jean Downing, Senior Enterprise Development Advisor at the USAID Bureau for Economic Growth, Environment, and Education. Value chains are key to Feed the Future investments. Field experts from Feed the Future projects in Senegal and Ghana described the models they have used to link more and more smallholders to markets while enabling and incentivizing resource-poor farmers to invest in improved productivity. Alan Gibson, advisor to DFID, and an architect of its Making Markets Work for the Poor (M4P) approach, commented on these models, offering the perspective of another donor. -------------- www.agrilinks.org