An innovative integrated frame to deliver knowledge to policy-makers on inclusiveness and sustainability of agricultural value chains

Dabat Marie-Hélène, Orlandoni Olimpia, Fabre Pierre. 2018. An innovative integrated frame to deliver knowledge to policy-makers on inclusiveness and sustainability of agricultural value chains. . SFER, INRA, CIRAD. Nantes : SFER, 1-19. Journées de recherches en sciences sociales (JRSS). 12, Nantes, 13 Décembre 2018/14 Décembre 2018.

Résumé : Sustainability and inclusiveness are on the top of the international political agendas, and policy makers are asked to report progress against such priorities. This is particularly the case for the support to agriculture, where the attention to the increase of agricultural production has now been coupled with a stronger focus on social and environmental aspects. Such a shift brought to reflect on the relevance of the standard methodologies on value chain analysis. The needs are not only to measure economic, but also to provide social and environmental information in order to shed light on inclusiveness and sustainability. This is the basis on which the Value Chain Analysis for Development (VCA4D) project (2016-2022) was established. VCA4D is a partnership between the European Commission and Agrinatura, the alliance of European universities working together for agricultural research and education for development. This initiative intends to provide evidence-based knowledge on development impacts of the value chains operations so as to help decision for investment projects in agriculture and to facilitate sectorial policy dialogue. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate how VCA4D provides an innovative integrated frame to deliver knowledge to policy makers on sustainability and inclusiveness by (i) structuring a scientific methodological framework starting from the perspective of policy makers and based on existing methods or new and more appropriate home-made tools and by (ii) integrating the economic, environmental and social aspects into a comprehensive yet manageable set of indicators. Finally, the paper presents some original results on the application of the VCA4D methodology on three value chains and points at the limits of the approach.

Mots-clés libres : Value chain, Research, Policy, Sustainability, Inclusiveness

Auteurs et affiliations

• Dabat Marie-Hélène, CIRAD-ES-UMR ART-DEV (BEL) ORCID: 0000-0002-9938-1792
• Orlandoni Olimpia, Agrinatura (BEL)
• Fabre Pierre, CIRAD-DRS (BEL)

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