Documents tagged with amap

Value Chain End Market Toolkit

This toolkit informs implementers on the process and value of End-market Research efforts for Value Chain development, provides a portfolio of tools, and grounds these tools through case studies of...
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mR 156 - GFSR Ghana Rice Study

Under the Global Food Security Response framework, USAID commissioned a value chain analysis of rice in West Africa. The regional study was informed by five country studies conducted in Ghana, Mali...
  • jmwolfe published this 12 / 13 / 2009
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mR 161 - GFSR West Africa Rice Value Chain Analysis

The Global Food Security Response (GFSR) framework, a response to the global food crisis, includes three components: i) an emergency humanitarian response; ii) urgent measures to address high food ...
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mR 157 - GFSR Liberia Rice Study

Under the Global Food Security Response framework, USAID commissioned a value chain analysis of rice in West Africa. The regional study was informed by five country studies conducted in Ghana, Mali...
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mR 160 - GFSR Senegal Rice Study

Under the Global Food Security Response framework, USAID commissioned a value chain analysis of rice in West Africa. The regional study was informed by five country studies conducted in Ghana, Mali...
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mR 159 - GFSR Nigeria Rice Study

Under the Global Food Security Response framework, USAID commissioned a value chain analysis of rice in West Africa. The regional study was informed by five country studies conducted in Ghana, Mali...
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mR 6 - Summary of Findings AMAP Knowledge & Practice Component B Stocktaking Exercise

This microREPORT summarizes findings from a stocktaking exercise conducted by the AMAP BDS K&P Component B team. The stocktaking exercise was used to inform decisions about the focus of research, ...
  • jmwolfe published this 07 / 17 / 2009
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mR 20 - Value Chains and Their Significance for Addressing the Rural Finance Challenge

For the last two decades rural finance in developing countries has been drastically reduced. This microREPORT argues that one answer to the challenge of rural finance lies in our ability to comple...
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mR 3 - Review of Evaluations of Selected Enterprise Development Projects

This microREPORT presents the findings from a review of evaluations of enterprise development projects with a business development services (BDS) component. While the evaluations cover a wide ra...
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mR 7 - Hidden Sources of Growth? Looking at Microenterprises through the Competitiveness Lens: A Rev

How does the performance of microenterprises, establishments with up to ten employees, affect competitiveness and growth of a regional or national economy? Under what conditions does economic activ...
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mR 25 - Trade, Micro and Small Enterprises, And Global Value Chains

This microREPORT provides readers with a compelling rationale for implementing trade-related projects that help integrate micro and small enterprises into global value chains and highlights some ef...
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mR 27 - Strengthening the Role of AIDS-Affected MSEs in Productive Markets

With 39.4 million people HIV-positive or living with AIDS around the world, it is not surprising that AIDS is having an economic impact on households, businesses, and even national economies. Micro...
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mR 31 - Weaving MSEs Into Global Value Chains: The Case of Guatemalan Textile Handicrafts

This microREPORT, written by Elizabeth Dunn and Lillian Villeda, examines the Guatemalan textile handicrafts value chain, the firms that operate in it, and the nature of relationships between them....
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mR 37 - Competitive Strategies for Agriculture-Related MSEs: From Seeds to Supermarket Shelves

This microREPORT aims to inspire the implementers of agriculture and agribusiness projects to develop competitive business strategies which are inclusive of micro and small enterprises (MSEs). The ...
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mR 33 - Kenya Impact Assessment: Baseline Research Report

For the Baseline Research Design, click here. For a powerpoint presentation related to this project, click here. This microREPORT by Don Snodgrass and Jennefer Sebstad (Action for Enterprise, memb...
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mN 21 - Sustainable Coffee Increases Incomes

This case study is about how rural poor smallholder coffee farmers in the State of Chiapas in southern Mexico achieved significant increases in their earnings as a result of sales into a higher val...
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mR 45 - Sustainable Coffee: Increasing Income of Small-Scale Coffee Farmers in Mexico Through Upgrad

This microREPORT tells a story of how rural poor smallholder coffee farmers in southern Mexico achieved significant increases in their earnings as a result of sales into a higher value market chann...
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mR 2 - Indonesia Cocoa Value Chain Assessment

The primary objectives of this assessment were to: * determine the major constraints and opportunities to growth and expansion of the cocoa sector in Indonesia (primarily Sulawesi); * propose...
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mR 21 - Making LED Work for Small Firms: Evaluation of Participatory Appraisal for Competitive Advan

This microREPORT analyzes a recent Local Economic Development (LED) exercise in central Serbia and attempts to provide answers to the following set of questions important to AMAP research: (1) Wha...
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mR 50 - Mali Shea Kernel Value Chain Case Study

This case study focuses on the incentives of and risks to market actors in Mali’s shea kernel value chain in investing in upgrading operations and developing reliable sources of supply. The lessons...
  • jmwolfe published this 07 / 17 / 2009
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