Commodity Value chain Development

Limited knowledge and skills on commodity value chain development

Inadequate linkages between producers, input and service providers,

and other value chain actors

Service

providers

Setup 28 Knowledge centers

Services

Intervention

Value chain

actors

Interventions

30 working papers produced and published on hard copies and electronic copies,

IPMS videos (12) on innovation stories of various commodities produced on

DVDs,

Various brochures and posters on value chain development including Knowledge

management, Capacity development and Commodities,

120 MSc and BSc thesis reports of IPMS sponsored students compiled and availed

on project website,

Articles in national and international journals and proceedings,

Training manuals and toolkits on market oriented commodity development

produced,

Project website established for availing published and unpublished project

documentations.

Technology exhibitions at national and regional levels

Field days, seminars, livestock fairs, conferences and workshops

Distribution of lessons and experiences through DVDs, posters, working papers

Broadcasting good practices through radio and TV, in local languages: Translat-

ing documents to local languages

Traders and

Processors

Output

producers

Input

producers

Onion seed production

Fattening

Market information system

MSC/BSc education, research and in-service training

Fruit seedling nursery

onion storage

AI service Delivery, Apiary input supply

Forage developmen0t breed improvement

Pullet production

Kabuli chickpea production

Improved mango production

Processing and marketing

Output production

Input production

Field visits

Paravet services concentrate feed shops

Market oriented commodity development is context specific and requires interventions based on a diagnosis of the

targeted value chain system.

Market oriented commodity value chain development is a continuous process which requires new knowledge, skills and

partner linkages over time.

Small holders should have increased access to knowledge, skills, inputs and markets.

The provision of input and service to the producers can increasingly be commercialized by private sector partners,

including cooperatives.

The marketing and processing of agricultural outputs can be improved through collective action by the producers and

through increased linkages between producers and traders/processors.

Over time, value chain actors – who add value at different stages of production and processing - can increasingly lead

the value chain development process.

The public sector extension services should be capacitated in market oriented extension to support this process by

gradually changing its role from supplier of inputs and services to knowledge broker and facilitator. Use of IT based

technologies can strengthen these roles of the extension system.

Government can support commercialization process through the development of road and communication

infrastructure, developing a regulatory framework and facilitating business service development.

Public institutions: research

(national and regional), education

institutions agricultural extension

offices at national, regional, zonal

and district levels

Diagnosis of the commodity Value Chain

Inadequate production and supply of inputs

Limited adoption of improved technology

Imperfect market for output producers

Key lessons learned

Improving Productivity and Market Success of Ethiopian Farmers (IPMS) Project

Documentation

Scaling out and up

MFI institutions, cooperatives,

Private businesses, National Artificial

Insemination Center, private input

suppliers service provider,

Knowledge centers

Established technical and market information provision system

Onion seed production

Seedling production

www.ipms-ethiopia.org

Knowledge/ Skills

MoA, EIAR, Education

institutions, private

sectors, consultants,

specialized farmers,

NGOs, students

Input Supply

Services

Cooperative shops,

public enterprises,

vaccine laboratory,

private enterprises

Credit

Microfinance

institutions

Cooperatives

Private industry

Shops

Marketing

Cooperative shops

Public enterprises

NGOs/Projects

Restaurants

Producers

Cooperative milk processing

Improved banana production

onion bulking

Banana ripening