Titlebook: Supply Chain Management in African Agriculture; Innovative Approache Abdul-Razak Alhassan,Mamudu Abunga Akudugu Book 2020 The Editor(s) If

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se from. The examples involving the clustering of Canadian weather stations are meant to be illustrative, since the known locations of weather stations can be used to infer which ones should exhibit similar weather patterns. The objective is not so much to find “real” clusters of stations, but rathe

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Commodity Value Chain Structures,ply and value chains should only be limited to strengthening local or cluster structures, others have to go beyond that to strengthen their competitive positions in national and international structures. So this chapter focuses on examining the different commodity value chain structures that affect

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Commodity Clusters, Arenas, Linkages and Business Models,, socially acceptable, culturally agreeable, gender sensitive, generationally stable and politically neutral. Such strategic interventions must have at the core of it the pooling of resources for coordinated action around the centre—clustering. The clusters will allow proper functioning of the vario

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Priority Products, Supporting Services and Institutions,, it is important for value chain actors and stakeholders to prioritize their actions towards developing specific products or commodities that they have competitive advantage in. This is important because it makes business sense to prioritize the production of products that meet the demands, needs a

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Systemic Constraints Within Commodity Value Chains,t marketing. At the production level, majority of farmers continue to complain of inadequate access to financial services, improved planting materials, poor irrigation facilities, poor market infrastructure, high production and transaction costs, high prevalence of pests and diseases and poor access

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Benchmarking and Recommended Production Practices,rs. To be able to determine if progress is being made in a particular commodity value chain, there must be a mechanism for comparing the performance of the chain in question with the industry standard. In this chapter, we present how to benchmark the performance of a chosen commodity value chain wit

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,Value Chain Profiling in Practice—A Case Study,in the efforts towards transformation of African agriculture for inclusive and sustainable development in the continent. As such, we present in this chapter a practical application of commodity value chain profiling. We started by establishing the gaps in supply of the selected commodity and how the