Browsing: Agricultural Value Chain Analysis

Africa dependency for supply of crucial needs like food must be changed through diversification of sources and investing in its own regional specialization for production of goods and services.

The future of Africa should be where the EAC produces this, while ECOWAS produces that and SADC produces…and so on and so forth, the regions must specialize and safety measures put in place to secure production and trade routes to protect against disruptions.

Global value chains have increased inter-connectivity and reliance on each other at a global scale, a reality that is been reversed by trade wars, actual wars pandemic threats and resulting friend shoring.

While the world is still very interconnected and value chains of the goods and services we consume web in and out of multiple countries, trade wars like United States and China, and actual wars like Russia and Ukraine are now deglobalizing the world village.

While there …

• Agriculture employs a great percentage of the Tanzanian labour force
• AVCA assists in developing an understanding of how value chain actors/participants deal with powers
• The purpose of agricultural value chain analysis (AVCA) is to increase the efficiency, productivity and competitiveness of an agricultural sub-sector or industry

Agriculture seems to be the backbone of the economy for most developing countries including Tanzania.

The agro-sector employs a great percentage of the Tanzanian labour force; meanwhile almost 80% of those engaging in this sector conduct dual agriculture (cultivating and livestock keeping).

Provision of finance to the agro-sector was previously ignored by most financial institutions despite the current struggle for stimulating finance to agro-sector.

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The breakthrough for the struggle would be realised if the agricultural value chain were to be properly mapped out to provide a clearer path to profitability.

Agriculture value …