1.
Spencer Henson
Understanding how value chains
create food system outcomes:
Bangladesh

2.
Projects in Bangladesh
Four projects in Bangladesh:
– New fish-based complimentary food
– Grameen Danone
– Vegetable seeds
– Certilac project?
What will these projects taken together tell us about food
system outcomes from value chains?
Can we get ‘more than the sum of the parts’ through
coordination of these?

3.
Agricultural Inputs
Agricultural Production
Storage and Transportation
Processing
Distribution and Marketing
Target Consumers
Nutrient Composition
Access
Information
Infrastructure and Institutions

4.
Cross-cutting issues
Need for interventions at multiple levels of value chain
Linkages between agriculture and nutrition
Underlying value chain processes
Focus on consumers
Role of business and engagement with business
Importance of wider institutions
Diets and value chains

5.
Agriculture
Nutrition

6.
Key processes in functioning of value chains for
nutritious foods
Enhancing and
Maintaining Nutritional
Value
Consumption
Capabilities
Signalling
Integrity
Availability Value
Affordability
Value Creation Value Capture

7.
Value chains and diet of the poorDiet
Food 1 Food 2 Food 3 Food 4 Food 5 Food 6 Food 7 Food 8
ValueChainA
ValueChainB
ValueChainC
ValueChainD
ValueChainI
ValueChainG
ValueChainH
ValueChainF
ValueChainE

8.
How do we coordinate?
Common understandings on value chains and value chain
analysis
Exchange of information
Synthesis of findings
Move towards joint diet-based project?