Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum)

Agricultural value chains are organizational schemes that enable a primary product to get sold and transformed into consumable end-products, adding value at each step of a gradual process of transformation and marketing. It is not only recently that the value chain concept has been entering the development debate. 

Value chains can be an opportunity to link smallholder farmers in developing countries to lucrative markets for consumer goods worldwide. However, How can smallholders engage? Who drives smallholder engagement? What makes smallholders benefit?