Governments, nongovernmental organizations, donors, and the private sector have increasingly embraced value-chain development (VCD) for stimulating economic growth and combating rural poverty. Innovation for Inclusive Value-Chain Development: Successes and Challenges helps to fill the current gap in systematic knowledge about how well VCD has performed, related trade-offs or undesired effects, and which combinations of VCD elements are most likely to reduce poverty and deliver on overall development goals. This book uses case studies to examine a range of VCD experiences. Approaching the subject from various angles, it looks at new linkages to markets and the role of farmer organizations and contract farming in raising productivity and access to markets, the minimum assets requirement to participate in VCD, the role of multi-stakeholder platforms in VCD, and how to measure and identify successful VCD interventions. The book also explores the challenges livestock-dependent people face; how urbanization and advancing technologies affect linkages; ways to increase gender inclusion and economic growth; and the different roles various types of platforms play in VCD. See table of contents:

PART 1 Innovation for Inclusive Value-Chain Development: Highlights;
PART 2 Challenges and Approaches for Inclusive Value-Chain Development: Introduction ;
Chapter 1 Guides for Value-Chain Development:A Comparative Review ;
Chapter 2 Value-Chain Development for Rural Poverty Reduction: A Reality Check and a Warning ;
Chapter 3 Changing Asset Endowments and Smallholder Participation in Higher-Value Markets: Evidence from Certified-Coffee Producers in Nicaragua ;
Chapter 4 Contract Farming in Developing Countries: Theory, Practice, and Policy Implications ;
PART 3 Integrating Agricultural Innovation and Inclusive Value-Chain Development: Introduction ;
Chapter 5 Enhancing Innovation in Livestock Value Chains through Networks: Lessons from Fodder Innovation Case Studies in Developing Countries ;
Chapter 6 Transformation of Smallholder Beef-Cattle Production in Vietnam ;
Chapter 7 Collective Action for Market-Chain Innovation in the Andes ;
Chapter 8 Multistakeholder Platforms for Linking Small Farmers to Value Chains: Evidence from the Andes ;
Chapter 9 Unraveling the Role of Innovation Platforms in Supporting Coevolution of Innovation: Contributions and Tensions in a Smallholder Dairy-Development Program ;
Chapter 10 Dealing with Critical Challenges in African Innovation Platforms: Lessons for Facilitation ;
PART 4 Evaluating inclusive value-chain development ;
Chapter 11 Impact of Third-Party Enforcement of Contracts in Agricultural Markets—A Field Experiment in Vietnam ;
Chapter 12 Linking Smallholders to the New Agricultural Economy: The Case of the Plataformas de Concertación in Ecuador ;
Chapter 13 Lapses, Infidelities, and Creative Adaptations: Lessons from Evaluation of a Participatory Market Development Approach in the Andes;
Chapter 14 Using Quantitative Tools to Measure Gender Differences Within Value Chains ;