1. Markets, value chains and stakeholder platforms Africa Rising Ethiopia Project, ILRI info Center, Addis 13-14 Feb 2013 Eliud Birachi, CIAT

2. Objective Promote innovative approaches for identifying market opportunities and increasing the participation of farmers in more efficient markets while promoting the participation of the private sector Contribute to building multi-stakeholder partnerships and platforms to implement innovations in the agricultural sector in Ethiopia

3. 1- Participatory market chain analysis To identify bottlenecks and actors involved in the supply chain, and develop plans and strategies to overcome them Collecting and analyzing data from primary and secondary sources. Compiling value chain maps to organize the data, analyzing data to reveal opportunities and constraints within the chains Compiling catalogues of best bet components to resolve the constraints Determining interventions and points of leverage for targeting research investments to have large-scale impact and designing strategies for sustaining the interventions Mobilizing and vetting strategies with stakeholders, communication and knowledge sharing systems

4. 2- Characterization of value chain actors and linkages Identify and characterize current and potential actors at each stage of the value chain including their functions Identify and evaluate what services are available and required to support the value chain actors Identify and evaluate the nature of linkages between actors in the market chains and strengthen them

5. 3- Functioning multi-stakeholder platforms The purpose is to validate and promote the potential of multi- stakeholder platforms as a more coordinated and cohesive approach to improve delivery and impact of agricultural research. A rapid stakeholder analysis of the key partners and mapping stakeholder actions and interactions Facilitate establishment of a stakeholder platform steering group to prepare and guide the preparation of the multi stakeholder platform(s) Capacity building of identified value chain actors on how to operationalize platforms Design participatory based monitoring and evaluation tools for platform management and implementation activities

6. Creating systematic impact through functional platforms Impact Zone 1Impact Zone 2Impact Zone 3Impact Zone 4 National Platform Farmers in selected regions (through farmer organizations/coops) Markets/Traders (linked to each zone below) Supported by: Credit providers Researchers Policy (national and regional) Market information providers Physical infrastructure services- warehousing 6 Scale of platform operation is flexible

7. Illustrative cases: A potato IP in Rwanda Identified and prioritized issues in the Irish potato value chain: the market–technology– policy interface of low prices, poor yields and post-harvest handling. Interventions: access to planting material of market preferred variety, rapid seed multiplication, dehaulming before harvest, Value addition (potato washing, sorting, grading, and packaging); linking to credit and niche markets; and exploiting the favorable policy environment. Facilitation by one of the stakeholders (a private female trader) to buy Irish potatoes from IP members and with input from research, farmers role: adopted the use of clean seeds, inputs and crop management practices to provide good quality potatoes for the Kigali market. Results: – Delivered tonnage to selected markets increased by over 10 times within 2 years – Created 15 jobs in the small production area, – Credit access to traders and farmers (to allow them to dehaulm and wait for the potatoes to cure and hence increase shelf life). – Prices: Farmers immediately received a price increase of 30% above the usual levels. Summary: key outcomes include improved potato quality, increased yields, improved shelf life and increased prices and incomes.

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