Agricultural Value Chains in India: Ensuring Competitiveness, Inclusiveness, Sustainability, Scalability, and Improved Finance

This book provides a comprehensive framework of CISS-F to analyze the efficiency of high-value agricultural commodity value chains in India, emphasizing the importance of farmers' welfare and scalability. It offers valuable insights for policymaking and presents a future direction for agricultural value chain policy.

Format: Hardback
Length: 298 pages
Publication date: 19 December 2021
Publisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore

This comprehensive open-access book offers a robust conceptual framework of CISS-F (competitiveness, inclusiveness, sustainability, scalability, and access to finance) to evaluate the efficiency of high-value agricultural commodity value chains in India. Recognizing agriculture as an interconnected system that connects farming, logistics, processing, and marketing, the book emphasizes the importance of studying how value chains function and can be further strengthened to achieve agricultural policy goals. By examining value chains across a diverse range of agricultural commodities through the holistic lens of CISS-F, this book contributes valuable insights to existing research. It goes beyond mere competitiveness and emphasizes the need for inclusivity, sustainability, and scalability. The research undertaken in this book sheds light on critical issues such as achieving macro gains in terms of increased farmer outreach and sectoral growth. It provides valuable recommendations for policymaking, highlighting areas that require improvement to steer agricultural value chains towards greater competitiveness, inclusivity, sustainability, and scalability. Furthermore, the book offers a comprehensive picture of the future direction of policymaking in agriculture, supported by detailed research findings specific to value chains.

Weight: 724g
Dimension: 160 x 242 x 27 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9789813342675
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022