Presentation to UN FAO, Rome on incorporating gender equity concernes into agricultural value chain analysis and development.
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1. Gender and value chains
Presentation of paper prepared for UN FAO SOFA 2010
Christopher Coles and Jonathan Mitchell
2. Introduction
Brief introduction to VC analysis and development and the
study
What we know about gender and value chains: desk and action
research
How we intervene: value chain development
The implications for policy and practice
Summary
3. Value chain analysis the diagnosis
Is holistic
chain wide approach to ID of action points from design & input
supply to consumption
deals with everyone men and women
Looks for win-win interventions need to be economically viable to
be sustainable
4. Value chain development the solution
Applies upgrading strategies to actors
Process and product: improving efficiency and quality
Functional: who does what
Horizontal coordination: within functional nodes
Vertical coordination: between nodes
Chain: moving to a new chain using existing skills
Enabling environment
Policy, law, institutions, support organisations
Projects tend to be short-term, narrowly focussed and prioritise
quick wins
5. What determines how and where men and women participate in
VCs?
Access to factors of production
Which functions? Women in lower margin activities/VCs,
including secondary roles
6. Role of risk
7. Male appropriation
8. Women involved throughout chains, often beyond production
(e.g. fisheries)