منصة المعرفة في منظمة الفاو بشأن سلاسل القيمة الغذائية المستدامة

Structured Grain Trading Systems in Africa

2013

The manual covers the various components of structured trading systems. It goes from considering post-harvest management to commercial storage and warehousing, to trade financing and commodity exchanges as well as how to organize such trading systems in Africa. 

Countries: Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Réunion, Rwanda, Saint Helena Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Commodities: Cereals in general
Topics: Post-harvest handling and aggregation, Risk management (Analysis), Information-sharing - trust and transparency, Contract mechanisms, Financial services, Non-financial services, Infrastructural elements, Institutional elements, Farm/firm-level upgrading, Governance (linkage) upgrading, Inputs and services support upgrading, Business enabling environment upgrading, Contract farming, Value chain finance, Risk management (Cross-sectional), Space and time factors
Personal author: Vincent Fautrel, Lamon Rutten, Andrew Shepherd, Paul Mundy
Publisher: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), Eastern Africa Grain Council (EAGC)
Category: Field-based materials
Level suitability: Intermediate
Type: Discussion
Format: Document
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