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This analytical tool allows users to systematically gather, store and manage data for the implementation of cost-benefit and value-added analyses. Users can build different scenarios and analyze the socio-economic impact of various policies — such as domestic prices liberalization, opening to international trade, new technologies adoption. Users can use the software to build a baseline scenario which corresponds to a benchmark situation; once users generate the policy measures or changes in the value chain, their impacts will modify the original reference scenario. 

The software is the complementary tool to the "Value Chain Analysis for Policy Making: Methodological Guidelines for a Quantitative Approach" document, which provides the conceptual and methodological framework for value chain analysis. 

See also:

• A Software for Value Chain Analysis. Manual for FAO VCA Software Tool. EASYPol Series 074
  
• Value Chain Analysis for Policy Making: Methodological Guidelines for a Quantitative Approach. EASYPol Series 129

This paper is part of the FAO Policy series EASYPol — Resources for Policymaking in Agriculture, Rural Development and Food Security. To find other EASYPol series resources, type "EASYPol" in the free text search.