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Private Business-Driven Value Chains and Nutrition: Insights from India

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Despite rapid economic growth, undernutrition rates in South Asia remain among the highest in the world. It is also seen that both rural...

Market Systems Development in the Cities of Rapidly Urbanising Countries

Published by: The BEAM Exchange

The aim of this paper is to offer guidelines for those in the market systems community interested in working in urban settings, by exploring the key features that makes cities unique and the implications these features have for programmes using a market systems approach.

Assessing Food Value Chain Pathways, Linkages and Impacts for Better Nutrition of Vulnerable Groups

Published by: Elsevier

This article offers insights into assessing the effectiveness of post farm-gate agri-food value chains at improving the nutrition intake of vulnerable groups. It develops a conceptual framework integrating the value chain concepts with agriculture and nutrition, and identifies key outcomes and requirements for value chains to be successful at delivering substantive and sustained consumption of nutrient-dense foods by poor households.

Using Systems Thinking to Reach the Poor through Markets

Published by: Instituto Universitario de Desarrollo y Cooperación

Following the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agenda of ‘leave no one behind’, this article argues for a new way of thinking about markets andthe private sector that addresses these new challenges. It introduces market systems development (MSD) as a new approach for engaging with the private sector using complexity and systems thinking. By understanding better the role and limits of market-ba

State–Business Relations Beyond Growth: Bringing in Development

Published by: IDS

The signatories of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have called on a wide range of businesses ‘to apply their creativity and innovation’ to address sustainable development challenges. Yet the role of business in contributing to development depends profoundly on its interaction with the state. This paper asks how states and businesses interact in different contexts to shape development outcomes.

Understanding Unpaid Care Work to Empower Women in Market Systems Approaches: Policy Brief

Approaches to support women to participate in paid work often assume that women’s time is elastic. They fail to consider roles and responsibilities in the household and the community, and this can undermine both development outcomes and market activities.

Understanding Unpaid Care Work to Empower Women in Market Systems Approaches

Published by: The BEAM Exchange

Interventions designed to support women to participate in productive or paid work – either as business owners or employees – are often based on assumptions around the elasticity of women’s time.

Brokering Development: Enabling Factors for Public-Private-Producer Partnerships in Agricultural Value Chains

Published by: IDS and IFAD

Markets are central to agriculture and rural development. Making markets, value chains and the systems that support them work better for the poor has therefore become a central aim of many donors, governments and nongovernmental organisations.

The Role of Businesses in Providing Nutrient-Rich Foods for the Poor: A Case Study in Tanzania

Published by: IDS

This case study of a Tanzanian food processing business analyses the potential of mid-sized businesses to contribute to tackling undernutrition. Particularly among young children and pregnant mothers, undernutrition has lifelong consequences and impedes individuals’ health, wellbeing and life chances.