This paper summarises and integrates two reports on agricultural commodity chains prepared in early 2013 as part of a study of ACP value chains. The reports were funded by FAO and commissioned by the ACP/EU Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA).

The two original reports cover a total of nine value chains in seven countries in the Caribbean and Pacific regions. The chains were all established through private sector initiative and have proved to be sustainable or to have the potential to be so. All nine chains refer to the output of a single crop or livestock product in a single country and, in most cases, to that part of output which is exported or which passes through a set of one or more exporters.