Value Chains in the WorldFish MTP

Charles CrissmanValue Chains workshop

10-13 August 2012WorldFish - Penang

WorldFish Strategic Plan Focal AreasFocal Area Key research question

Climate Change Vulnerability and

Adaptation

How will climate change affect fisheries and aquaculture in developing countries and how can adaptive capacity be built?

Improved value chains

How can we improve input and output value chains to increase the development impact of aquaculture and fisheries?

Nutrition and health

How can investments in fisheries and aquaculture best improved human nutrition and health?

Gender and equity

How can strengthening the rights of marginalized fish dependent people reduce inequality and poverty?

Sustainable aquaculture technologies

How do we increase productivity, ecological resilience and development impact of aquaculture?

Policies and practice for resilience

What policy and management investments will increase the resilience of small-scale fisheries and increase their contribution to reducing poverty and hunger?

Reduced poverty and vulnerability

Sustainably increased food

security

Improved value chains in the CRPs

What are the key development impacts we will work towards achieving?1) Increased production and consumption of fish in target sites

– Hunger and malnutrition is widespread in our target countries, and assuring increased fish production is an important step towards providing affordable fish for poor consumers.

2) Increased income for producers, processors and traders

– Income can be increased through improved productivity, sales and value addition

Outcomes• Improved and diversified value chains:

• value chain actors acquire new capabilities and access new market segments through innovations in the value chain, and exposure to different managerial models, or different end markets

• Improved institutions, policies and business environment: • a supportive business environment, including access to inputs, services and capital for

chain actors, especially small holders

• Improved market information: • information flows from consumers and buyers downstream to processors and producers

upstream is improved, so that upstream actors increase their capabilities to supply what is required in the market

• More equitable participation: • the distribution of benefits to value chain participants is more equitable and matches

the relative risks the chain actors’ experience

Research Questions• What are the opportunities for increased employment for the poor and vulnerable

in fish value chains?

• How do market drivers affect producers’ methods and technologies, and what value chain interventions support production practices that are more economically, environmentally and socially sustainable?

• What business-support arrangements work effectively for smallholder producers and traders, in particular microenterprises, in different environments?

• How can small operators become and remain more competitive as market chains become increasingly integrated?

• How do knowledge and skills among the poor and vulnerable need to be improved, and how can this be achieved?

• What policy interventions will boost competitiveness of target value chains?

• How will macro-trends and political economy context be expected to affect target value chains over time?

Expected outputs 2012-2014

• Integrated research in development in key value chains in selected countries will increase the volume of fish moving through them.

• Toolkits for assessment of pro-poor and gender integrative fish value chains and their macro-context, as well as for identification of appropriate interventions developed, validated and made available to our partners.

• Sectoral, spatial and resource trade-off models that improve understanding of sustainable value chain development.

• Novel partnerships developed with private sector and development partners for value chain development.

• Improved documentation of increased participation by women in existing and new aspects of value chains.

Value Chains in the AAS CRP

Charles CrissmanValue Chains workshop

10-13 August 2012WorldFish - Penang

AAS Research Themes

Research questions• What are the opportunities for increased employment for the poor and vulnerable?

• How can input markets deliver to smallholder producers high-quality inputs more consistently, efficiently and affordably?

• How can value chain research help ensure high quality products from aquatic agricultural systems, in terms of nutrition and food safety?

• How do market drivers affect producers’ methods and technologies, and what interventions support practices that are more economically, environmentally and socially sustainable?

• What business-support arrangements work effectively for smallholder producers and traders, in particular microenterprises, in different environments?

• How can small operators become and remain more competitive as market chains become increasingly integrated?

• What wider services and support are required for value chains in aquatic agricultural systems that are marked by remoteness, high mobility, high variability in production and incomes, and heightened uncertainty about the future?

An approach to value chain development

Source: Devaux, Horton et al. 2009. Collective Action for Market Chain Innovation. Food Policy

Monitoring and Evaluation Indicators for Value Chains

Charles CrissmanValue Chains workshop

10-13 August 2012WorldFish - Penang

Outcomes and Impact• Theory of change – focus of programs

– Livelihoods– Production & productivity (producing & consuming households)– Nutrition– Governance– Household food security (producing & consuming households– Farm enterprise versus SME– Other non-farm HH VC actors

Outcomes and Impact

• Value Chains as Innovation Platforms– Technology– Organization– Policy

• Place in the value chain– Sector level outcomes– Chain level outcomes

Existing indicators

• Feed the Future – Objective, program, element indicators

• Donor Committee for Enterprise Development – Standard for Results Measurement

• CARE Universal Indicators for market engagement

An approach to innovation platform development

Adekunle et al. 2012. Agricultural Innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Experiences from multiple-stakeholder approaches . FARA.

Value Chain indicators

Source: World Bank. 2008. How innovative is your agriculture? Using innovation indicators and benchmarks to strengthen agricultural innovation systems

Gender indicators in agri-enterprise development

Input Output Impact

Amount of funding allocated to provide assistance to men and women in agro-enterprise

Effective participation of women in agro-enterprise and trade activities

Improvement in women’s income

Amount of funding for market infrastructure development and improved access to markets

Improvement in women’s employment levels – reduction in wage differentials and skills gaps

Overall improvement in rural well-being

Strengthening of producers and trade organizations

Increase in women’s participation and leadership in producers and trade organizations

Source: World Bank. 2005. Gender in monitoring and evaluation in rural development: a tool kit.