Shaping value chains with a view to development needs
In order to help small producers overcome barriers to market access and benefit from cost-effective production, value chains need to be analysed profoundly. This research project uses inter alia conceptual papers and case studies to address this issue.
Project Team:
Tilman Altenburg
Michael Brüntrup
Andreas Stamm
Georgeta Auktor
Time frame:
2003 - 2015
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completed
Project description
A growing share of global output is accounted for by integrated value chains in which large corporations define the production parameters, and thus also the framework for their partner companies’ activities - be they suppliers of raw materials, components manufacturers, or the retail trade. For developing countries as well, competitiveness is increasingly a matter of being integrated into efficient value chains. If companies are to participate in modern value chains, they are required to meet increasingly demanding standards, i.e. the barriers to market access are growing.
Analysis of value chains enables us to identify market access barriers in developing countries. It also provides us with information concerning knowledge transfer, dependencies, and income distribution between value-added stages. This enables us to identify policy approaches that may serve to ease market access for (small) producers in developing countries and to improve distributional effects.
The department’s research on this issue includes conceptual papers, analysis of international best practices, case studies on individual value chains, and guidelines for development-policy practice.
Publications
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Large-scale agricultural investments and rural development in Tanzania: lessons learned, steering requirements and policy responses
Brüntrup, Michael / Thomas Absmayr / Jonas Dylla / Franziska Eckhard / Kerstin Remke / Konrad Sternisko (2016)
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) (Paper prepared for presentation at the “2016 WORLD BANK CONFERENCE ON LAND AND POVERTY” The World Bank - Washington DC, March 14-18, 2016) -
ما هي العوامل التي تحدد الرتقاء بالمشاريع الصغيرة والمتوسطة في مصر؟ (Which factors constrain the upgrading of small and medium-size enterprises in Egypt?)
Loewe, Markus et al. (2015)
in: SME Advisor Arabia 2/2015, 48-54 -
Large-scale agro-industrial investments and rural poverty: evidence from sugarcane in Malawi
Herrmann, Raoul / Ulrike Grote (2015)
in: Journal of African Economies 24 (5), 645-676 -
It’s not just the economy, stupid
Reeg, Caroline / Markus Loewe (2014)
published on The Broker online 01 October 2014 -
Achieving inclusive competitiveness in the emerging solar energy sector in Morocco
Vidican, Georgeta / Matthias Böhning / Gina Burger / Elisa de Siqueira Regueira / Sandra Müller / Susanne Wendt (2013)
Studies 79 -
Which factors determine the upgrading of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)? The case of Egypt
Loewe, Markus / Iman Al-Ayouty / Annegret Altpeter / Lisa Borbein / Marc Chantelauze / Maximilian Kern / Elisabeth Niendorf / Malak Reda (2013)
Studies 76 -
Which factors determine the upgrading of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises? Evidence from Egypt, India and the Philippines
Hampel-Milagrosa, Aimée / Markus Loewe / Caroline Reeg (2013)
Discussion Paper 21/2013 -
RE-value policies: policy instruments to support RE industrial value chain development
Breitschopf, Barbara / Ulrike Lehr / Georgeta Vidican (2013)
Report for the IEA Implementing Agreement on Renewable Energy Technology Development (IEA-RETD) (forthcoming) -
Bush-to-energy value chains in Namibia: institutional challenges for pro-poor rural development
Brüntrup, Michael / Raoul Herrmann (2012)
in: Meine Pieter van Dijk / Jackes Trienekens (eds.), Global value chains: linking local producers from developing countries to international markets, Amsterdam: Amsterdam Univ. Pr., 89-115 -
Industrial development and employment promotion through renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies: international experience and policy options for Southern and Eastern Mediterranean countries
Altenburg, Tilman / Georgeta Vidican (2012)
Strategy paper contributing to the Mediterranean Solar Plan of the Union for the Mediterranean, Barcelona -
Building domestic capabilities in renewable energy: a case study of Egypt
Vidican, Georgeta (2012)
Studies 66 -
Interest groups, power relations, and the configuration of value chains: the case of biodiesel in India
Altenburg, Tilman (2011)
in: Food Policy 36 (6), 742-748 -
Faire Wertschöpfungsketten: sozialverträgliche Formen der Modernisierung in Sri Lankas Zimtsektor
Stephan, Christiane / Andreas Stamm (2010)
in: Karin Fischer / Christian Reiner / Cornelia Staritz (Hrsg.), Globale Güterketten: weltweite Arbeitsteilung und ungleiche Entwicklung, Wien: Promedia, 139-156 -
Bioenergy value chains in Namibia: opportunities and challenges for rural development and food security
Brüntrup, Michael / Raoul Herrmann (2010)
in: Proceedings of the 9th Wageningen International Conference on Chain and Network Management, Wageningen, 26. bis 28. Mai 2010, CD-ROM -
Industrial policy in the cashew sector in Mozambique
Krause, Matthias / Friedrich Kaufmann (2009)
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Industrial policy in Mozambique
Krause, Matthias / Friedrich Kaufmann (2009)
Preliminary draft 31 October 2009, Bonn -
Outgrowers – a key to the development of rural areas in Sub-Saharan Africa and to poverty reduction
Brüntrup, Michael / Roger Peltzer (2007)
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) -
Donor Approaches to Supporting Pro-poor Value Chains
Altenburg, Tilman (2007)
working paper, Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) -
Strengthening value chains in Sri Lanka's agribusiness: a way to reconcile competitiveness with socially inclusive growth?
Stamm, Andreas / Christoph Jost / Constanze Kreiss / Katharina Meier / Mike Pfister / Philipp Schukat / Henning A. Speck (2006)
Studies 15 -
Introduction to the special issue: shaping value chains for development
Altenburg, Tilman (2006)
in: The European Journal of Development Research 18 (4), 493-497 -
Governance patterns in value chains and their development impact
Altenburg, Tilman (2006)
in: The European Journal of Development Research 18 (4), 498-521 -
Agrarwirtschaftliche Interessenlage und agrarpolitischer Handlungsbedarf subsaharischer Länder aufgrund der Agrarverhandlungen in der Doha-Runde am Beispiel Tansanias und Senegals
Brüntrup, Michael (2005)
Studies 3 -
Value Chains for Development Policy: Challenges for Trade Policy and the Promotion of Economic Development
Stamm, Andreas (2004)
Concept Study for the BMZ and the GTZ, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)