Supply-chain Management and Agro-Enterprise Development: CIAT's Approach in Southeast Asia

摘要

The Rural Agroenterprise Development Project of the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) has taken a territorial approach to equitable, market-oriented, agriculturally based development in the rural tropics, with the objectives of poverty reduction (through income generation) and environmental sustainability. A four-stage methodology has evolved based on experiences in South America, Africa and, more recently, Southeast Asia. These stages are: formation of working groups at the levelof rural communities, comprising stakeholders interested in equitable, market-oriented agro-enterprise development, and building consensus on a vision for the future prioritisation of agri-food subsectors for further development, based on integration ofmarket demand, production and environmental criteria, and economic profitability, and in line with overall working-group objectives strengthening of the supply (value) chains associated with each prioritised subsector, with active involvement of local community groups, support organisations and supply-chain actors from outside the rural area development of sustainable services (business development services) to support and further enhance the competitiveness of the supply chains into the future. Examples of this approach from South America and Vietnam — the root-crop starch subsector — are presented, along with details of a new project in Vietnam and Laos, funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) — Small-scale Agroenterprise Development in the Uplands (SADU) — which aims to adapt the process to the situation of these two Southeast Asian countries.