Value chains and supermarketisation

Increasingly, supermarket chains are being introduced into developing markets and countries and value chain integration is occurring. This is very much tied to high-value agriculture. Platform members have identified these as important issues to which donors should pay attention. Recently, there has been much concern about the impact of the rapid concentration of supermarkets on small-scale farmers. In response, an increasing number of studies has been undertaken on these impacts, as well as on potential ways forward.

Further reading

• Economic Report on Africa 2009: Developing African Agriculture Through Regional Value Chains
• Documentation of the International Conference ‘Value Chains for Broad Based Development’, taking place between May 30 to June 1, 2007 in Berlin, Germany: value-links.de.
• The Donor Committee for Enterprise Development has a working group on value chains with which the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development cooperates.
• The Value Links Manual, a toolbox developed by GTZ. This manual presents the ValueLinks methodology – a compilation of action-oriented methods for promoting economic development with a value chain perspective. It can be used by development projects or by public agencies promoting specific agribusiness, handicraft or manufacturing sub-sectors of the economy.

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