Policy Trade and Value Chains program

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  • Presentation speakers
    • Hikuepi Katjiuonga, Program leader, policy, trade and value chains (PTVC, ILRI

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  Overview of program’s purpose

  • Overall objective: Understand how public policies on the one hand, and institutions and organizations created by market stakeholders on the other hand, affect the performance of domestic & international agri-food value chains.
  • Conducts research on value chains performance, upgrading, innovations, and competitiveness
  • Focus on livestock and livestock product value chains, and on the smallholder production systems.
  • Develop analytical and methodological tools to achieve a deeper understanding of value chains and-stakeholder agri-food systems
  • Through ReSAKSS (the Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System), PTVC implements regional trade and integration policy analyses, engages with policy makers and contributes directly to the implementation of the CAADP agenda.
  • Link to ILRI strategy: Reducing poverty and improving food security at heart of ILRI

   

   

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  • Is this good science? (Is it important; is it robust; is it relevant; is it in demand)
  • Does it help us reach ILRI strategic objectives?
    • science-based practices that achieve better lives through livestock
    • compelling scientific evidence persuasive for smarter policies and bigger investment
    • increased capacity to better use livestock science and investments for better lives through livestock.

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