Sustainable Development and Tropical Agri-chains [Hardcover]

This book links tropical agri-chain dynamics  with which CIRAD and AFD have been involved for decades  to that of sustainable development. Increased environmental and social concerns urge agri-chain actors and development practitioners to design innovations, and public and private actors to invent regulations in connection with agri-chains to improve sustainability.

With a view to contributing towards implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this book examines the different roles of agri-chains: as vectors of development, as spaces of innovation, as objects of evaluation, and as arenas of regulation. It builds upon the findings and experiences of CIRAD and its researchers together with their Southern partners, and of AFD and its officers.

Linking agricultural production with the other economic sectors, agri- chains are key spaces where local and global challenges to sustainability meet and where local and global actors experiment interlinked or common solutions.

Acknowledgments

General Foreword; Melissa Leach

Foreword by AFD; Ga?l Giraud

Chapter 1: Introduction; Estelle Bi?nabe, Patrick Caron, Denis Loeillet, and Alain Rival

PART 1: THE TROPICAL AGRI-CHAIN AS A VECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT?

Chapter 2: The concept of fili?re or value chain: an analytical framework for development policies and strategies; Fr?d?ric Lan?on, Ludovic Temple, and Estelle Bi?nabe

Chapter 3: History of public organizations and associations specializing in a single agricultural commodity and related to francophone Africa; Benoit Daviron and Janine Sarraut-Woods

Chapter 4: Evolution of donor intervention modalities on agri-chains: the AFD experience; Anne Legile, Naomi No?l, Florence Mouton, and Didier Baillet