ASTA Engagement Guide – Accelerating Agrifood Systems Transformation through the FAO-UNIDO partnership

16/10/2026

This guide shows how ASTA works in practice through a five-step process, from value chain selection and analysis to implementation, scaling, impact measurement and global learning. It also highlights ASTA’s partnership-based approach and shows how partners can engage to support locally owned, evidence-based and scalable solutions for more sustainable, resilient and inclusive agrifood systems.

Developing sustainable food value chains - Practical guidance for systems-based analysis and design

01/02/2024

This brief outlines a rigorous and standardized approach for value chain analysis and design, taking a systems perspective to analyse and influence the behaviour and performance of value chain actors influenced by a complex environment. The brief also covers the design of upgrading strategies and associated development plans, based on the identification of root causes of value chain bottlenecks and using a participatory and multistakeholder approach.