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Innovations and policy design for development for cross-value chain services (logistics and financial services)

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Title Innovations and policy design for development for cross-value chain services (logistics and financial services)
 
Creator Balana, Bedru B.
Olanrewaju, Opeyemi S.
Ambler, Kate
Brauw, Alan de
Bloem, Jeffrey R.
Kadjo, Didier
Wossen, Tesfamichael
Liverpool-Tassie, Saweda Onipede
Abdoulaye, Tahirou
 
Subject value chains
food
markets
services
emplyment
income
smallholders
logistics
finances
agri-food system
technology
innovation
 
Description WP3 intends to address the question: How can cross-food value chain and market services function better to increase employment and boost income of smallholders and SMEs? The WP focuses on two types of cross-value chain services, logistics and financial services. (1) logistics services – supply chain management, transportation, traceability, digital platforms for e-com merce, and (cold) storage. (2) value-chain financial services – mainly focusing on digital financial services (DFS) that facilitate trans actions, savings, access to and use of credit, and insurance. The logistics services in agri-food systems in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are often targeted at large-scale enterprises with greater market power and less accessible to smallholder farmers and small and micro enterprises (SMEs). WP3 aims to assess the ways in which these emerging logistics services (including digital platforms) can be cost-effectively targeted at smallholder farmers and agri-food SMEs. Regarding DFS, the WP will investigate cost-effective ways of improving access to and adoption of DFS among smallholders and agri-food SMEs, especially among women and youth. Though these emerging DFS appear to have a high potential to benefit smallholders and SMEs across the agri-food value chains in LMICs, they need a reliable internet connection, a suitable mobile phone network, and a broad network of mobile money agents to be effective. WP3 thus aims to identify innovations/emerging logistics and DFS and test their effectiveness to smallholders and SMEs using randomized control trials (RCTs) in pilots, with the goal of country-specific scalable designs.
 
Date 2022-12-31
2023-01-24T12:25:43Z
2023-01-24T12:25:43Z
 
Type Report
 
Identifier Balana, Bedru; Olanrewaju, Opeyemi; Ambler, Kate; Brauw, Alan de; Bloem, Jeffrey R.; Kadjo, Didier; Wossen, Tesfamicheal; Liverpool-Tassie, Saweda Onipede; and Abdoulaye, Tahirou. 2022. Innovations and policy design for development for cross-value chain services (logistics and financial services). Scoping Study 2. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/128028
https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136552
 
Language en
 
Relation Scoping Study
 
Rights Other
Open Access
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)