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No. 9  -  January 2006

All Africa International Trade Fair -  13-22 January 2006

10th Ethiopia International
Trade Expo

Addis Ababa Exhibition Center

Products: Agricultural products and equipment, food products, food, beverages, equipments and machinery, furniture, interior, decoration, carpets, hardware and tools, storage and handling equipments and machinery, technology and machinery.

Participants: Over 28 countries with more than 300 companies are participating in the exhibition i.e.: United Kingdom, Spain, Austria, Germany, Czech Republic, Italy, South Africa, Kenya, Sudan, Jordan, Egypt, Ethiopia, Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, Pakistan, India, Taiwan, Malaysia, China, Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore.

Photos from the
Milk Value Chain -
SNV-Ethiopia:

Entrance to
the cooling chamber

Hand washing
before milking

Hand milking

Cream seperator

  Dairy butter processing

What is a Value Chain?

"The value chain describes the full range of activities which are required to bring a product or service from conception, through the different phases of production, delivery to final consumers, and final disposal after use. Take, for example, the case of the furniture industry: This involves the provision of seed inputs, chemicals, equipment and water for the forestry sector. Cut logs pass to the sawmill sector which gets its primary inputs from the machinery sector. From there, sawn timber moves to the furniture manufacturers who, in turn, obtain inputs from the machinery, adhesives and paint industries and also draw on design and branding skills from the service sector. Depending on which market is served, the furniture then passes through various intermediary stages until it reaches the final customer, who after use, consigns the furniture for recycling."
(from Raphael Kaplinsky and Mike Morris, IDRC 2001: Handbook for Value Chain Research
for download on www.business-ethiopia.com/value-chain-approach.html)
 

Two criteria for selection were discussed. These were first, potential market opportunity (evidence of unmet demand, be it national, regional or international), and second, outreach to smallholder farmers in the regions (potential to affect a large number of beneficiaries).

Steps of Situation Analysis: 1. Stakeholder Analysis to identify more precisely the existing players in the chains, including geographical mapping, 2. Market Studies (where necessary) to quantify the market potential (i.e. local demand, the regional market, export possibilities), 3. SWOT-Analysis of the chain to identify bottlenecks and 4. Development of a support strategy for the chain and identification of project activities to support the private sector in the chain.

Support activities: The support strategies include a number of activities, ranging from support to reform legal notes and policy documents, to capacity building of farmers organisations through training in farming as a business and organisational development. Support is provided focussing on specific Intervention Points based on the constraints analysis identified for each value chain:

Milk and milk products: Improving source of milk and get sustainable milk supply - Supporting possible sources of raw milk such as small farmers who can able to work on through training and organization - Introduce milk collection centres with the necessary facilities that can help to increase the volume of milk supply - Improve the packaging technology and quality of finished products during processing.

Honey: Introduction of modern beehives and trainings on apiculture farming - Supporting and demonstrating practical apicultural tools for small holders - Establish linkages between apiculture farmers and private business capable to transfer technologies appropriate to farmers and work for common benefit.

Pineapple: Introduce new variety of pineapple suitable for drying process - Training and extension support on pineapple cultivation and post harvest handling - Establish linkages between the pineapple growing farmers and the processing plant.

Edible oil and oil seeds: Contract farming with processors and for exporters - Developing of eco-certified production e.g. Sesame and Niger seed - Improvement of processing technology and product handling at village levels, micro enterprises,  industrial levels - Improving the purity of oil seed supplies to oil mills - Improving the quality of oil in the extraction and purification process - Improvement in single commodities especially peanut and sunflower - On-farm productivity improvement.

On Meso and Macro level activities include networking, public private partnerships, policy dialogue, legislation for standards, advocacy.

More about the Ethiopian SNV
Value Chain intervention on www.business-ethiopia.com

Various value chain relevant documents for download
under www.business-ethiopia.com/library.html

Tigray Trade Fair

All details for participation on:

http://www.mekelle
chamber.com/pages/
Exhibitionaddvert.htm

5^th Tigray Mobile Trade Fair and Exhibition - January 13 - 28, 2006

The Mekelle Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce that the 5th Tigray Mobile Trade Fair and Exhibition will take place from January 13 - 28, 2006 at Humera and Shire, under the theme of “Trade Fair and Exhibition for Competitiveness”.

Opening hours: 9:00 AM – 12:00 AM in Shire town

Places: Shire and Humera, Tigray, Ethiopia

All details for participation on: www.mekellechamber.com/pages/Exhibitionaddvert.htm

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