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Methodological Brief for Agri-based Value Chain Analysis

  • Publication | 2021
Global Food and Nutrition Security

The goal of a VCA4D study is to answer the following four Framing Questions using evidence-based elements, i.e. supported by quantitative indicators or explicit expert assessment:

 
 
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The analytical process is three-fold:

1. Implementing a functional analysis by setting out the overall VC operating features and inquiring about its general organisation and the main trends and market perspectives;

2. Performing economic, social and environmental analyses;

3. Making a Synthesis of the information produced which gives meaning to the many results, individual and combined.

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Methodological Brief for Agri-based Value Chain Analysis
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Authors
Pierre Fabre, Marie-Hélène Dabat and Olimpia Orlandoni
Publisher
Agrinatura EEIG
Geographic coverageGlobal
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27 May 2021

Knowledge service | MetadataGlobal Food and Nutrition Security | Sustainable Food Systems | MethodologyValue chain analysis
Digital Europa Thesaurus (DET)Agricultureaquaculture
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