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A Value Chain Task Force Approach for Managing Private-Public Partnerships: Zamiba’s Task Force on Acceleration of Cassava Utilization

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Maureen Chitundu
Klaus Droppelmann
Steven Haggblade

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Smallholder farmers operate in vertical supply chains. Therefore, an understanding of key opportunities and constraints up through the value chain becomes necessary for sustaining smallholder growth. Yet market analysis is of little value unless key private and public sector stakeholders agree to implement necessary reforms. This paper advocates an approach which marries together value chain analysis with a stakeholder taskforce to ensure that analysis of opportunities and constraints gets translated into actions that will facilitate commercial growth. Using Zambia’s cassava task force as an example, the paper describes the value chain task force method and identifies elements critical to its effective implementation.

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Paper provided by Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University in its series International Development Collaborative Working Papers with number ZM-FSRP-WP-21.

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Keywords: food security; food policy; cassava; value chain; task force; Zambia; Africa;

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