Value chains for beans and maize in Honduras: Opportunities for innovations at scale

The Rethinking Food Markets and Value Chains for Inclusion and Sustainability Initiative aims to provide evidence on what types of bundled innovations, incentive structures, and policies are most effective at creating more equitable sharing of income and employment opportunities in growing food mark...

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Autores principales: Reyes, Byron A., Colindres, Mirian, Peña, Meliza, Rodríguez, Carlos, Espada, Andrés, Rivera, Miriam, Alvarado, Milton, Donovan, Jason, Wiegel, Jenny, Stoian, Dietmar
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Publicado: 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/138460
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author Reyes, Byron A.
Colindres, Mirian
Peña, Meliza
Rodríguez, Carlos
Espada, Andrés
Rivera, Miriam
Alvarado, Milton
Donovan, Jason
Wiegel, Jenny
Stoian, Dietmar
author_browse Alvarado, Milton
Colindres, Mirian
Donovan, Jason
Espada, Andrés
Peña, Meliza
Reyes, Byron A.
Rivera, Miriam
Rodríguez, Carlos
Stoian, Dietmar
Wiegel, Jenny
author_facet Reyes, Byron A.
Colindres, Mirian
Peña, Meliza
Rodríguez, Carlos
Espada, Andrés
Rivera, Miriam
Alvarado, Milton
Donovan, Jason
Wiegel, Jenny
Stoian, Dietmar
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description The Rethinking Food Markets and Value Chains for Inclusion and Sustainability Initiative aims to provide evidence on what types of bundled innovations, incentive structures, and policies are most effective at creating more equitable sharing of income and employment opportunities in growing food markets, while reducing the food sector’s environmental footprint. The Initiative is organized into four working groups (Work Packages-WP). WP2’s work concentrates on identifying opportunities to improve participation and profit of smallholder farmers and agrifood small and medium enterprises (SMEs), and lowering their environmental footprint by identifying, adapting, and scaling interventions in three areas: (i) innovations to improve logistics and create inclusive business models and value chain contracts; (ii) product quality upgrading and food standard certification, and (iii) an enabling policy environment for sustainable development of domestic food value chains. Further, this working group aims to evaluate the effectiveness and synergies between innovations in the domestic chain of common beans and maize, in Honduras, contributing to eliminating the barriers that small producers (including women and young people) face to participate in and benefit from them. To meet its objectives, this group has organized its activities into three stages. During the first stage, interest focuses on knowing the current situation of the value chains in the country, identifying challenges and opportunities to innovate across the different links. In the second stage, a pilot study will be designed and implemented to evaluate innovations identified during the first stage, and that have potential for impact. Finally, in the third stage, scaling strategies will be defined to promote the use of the innovations evaluated and that showed a positive impact. As part of the first stage we designed and implemented a scoping study to identify challenges and innovation opportunities to make bean and maize value chains more inclusive and profitable. This document presents the results of this study, which is a first step to identify innovations that could be evaluated in a future pilot study, together with local partners.
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spelling CGSpace1384602025-12-08T09:54:28Z Value chains for beans and maize in Honduras: Opportunities for innovations at scale Reyes, Byron A. Colindres, Mirian Peña, Meliza Rodríguez, Carlos Espada, Andrés Rivera, Miriam Alvarado, Milton Donovan, Jason Wiegel, Jenny Stoian, Dietmar beans markets production value chains maize innovation food processing The Rethinking Food Markets and Value Chains for Inclusion and Sustainability Initiative aims to provide evidence on what types of bundled innovations, incentive structures, and policies are most effective at creating more equitable sharing of income and employment opportunities in growing food markets, while reducing the food sector’s environmental footprint. The Initiative is organized into four working groups (Work Packages-WP). WP2’s work concentrates on identifying opportunities to improve participation and profit of smallholder farmers and agrifood small and medium enterprises (SMEs), and lowering their environmental footprint by identifying, adapting, and scaling interventions in three areas: (i) innovations to improve logistics and create inclusive business models and value chain contracts; (ii) product quality upgrading and food standard certification, and (iii) an enabling policy environment for sustainable development of domestic food value chains. Further, this working group aims to evaluate the effectiveness and synergies between innovations in the domestic chain of common beans and maize, in Honduras, contributing to eliminating the barriers that small producers (including women and young people) face to participate in and benefit from them. To meet its objectives, this group has organized its activities into three stages. During the first stage, interest focuses on knowing the current situation of the value chains in the country, identifying challenges and opportunities to innovate across the different links. In the second stage, a pilot study will be designed and implemented to evaluate innovations identified during the first stage, and that have potential for impact. Finally, in the third stage, scaling strategies will be defined to promote the use of the innovations evaluated and that showed a positive impact. As part of the first stage we designed and implemented a scoping study to identify challenges and innovation opportunities to make bean and maize value chains more inclusive and profitable. This document presents the results of this study, which is a first step to identify innovations that could be evaluated in a future pilot study, together with local partners. 2023-12 2024-01-25T11:41:00Z 2024-01-25T11:41:00Z Report https://hdl.handle.net/10568/138460 en Open Access application/pdf Reyes, B.; Colindres, M.; Peña, M.; Rodríguez, C.; Espada, A.; Rivera, M.; Alvarado, M.; Donovan, J.; Wiegel, J.; Stoian, D. (2023) Value chains for beans and maize in Honduras: opportunities for innovations at scale. 35 p.
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Reyes, Byron A.
Colindres, Mirian
Peña, Meliza
Rodríguez, Carlos
Espada, Andrés
Rivera, Miriam
Alvarado, Milton
Donovan, Jason
Wiegel, Jenny
Stoian, Dietmar
Value chains for beans and maize in Honduras: Opportunities for innovations at scale
title Value chains for beans and maize in Honduras: Opportunities for innovations at scale
title_full Value chains for beans and maize in Honduras: Opportunities for innovations at scale
title_fullStr Value chains for beans and maize in Honduras: Opportunities for innovations at scale
title_full_unstemmed Value chains for beans and maize in Honduras: Opportunities for innovations at scale
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title_sort value chains for beans and maize in honduras opportunities for innovations at scale
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markets
production
value chains
maize
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food processing
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/138460
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