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July 19, 2007. William Kedrock¹ of Chemonics International presented: "Enhancing Smallholders' Value in the Value Chain." The seminar was the 22nd installment of the Linking Small Firms to Competitiveness Strategies Breakfast Seminar Series sponsored by the USAID Microenterprise Development office. Kedrock presented on the evolution of the smallholder role in the variety of value chains of the USAID/Ghana TIPCEE Project. The project is approaching year 3 of 5 of its implementation, with a focus on export horticulture such as pineapple, mango, papaya, cashew, vegetables, banana, and medicinal plants. The project’s domestic and regional value chains food crops include citrus, tomato, onion, and maize.

Kedrock focused his talk on explaining ways in which the project enhances smallholder value, how they deal with logistics management, and how they developed and implemented their Grades and Standards Training and GIS mapping process.  Kedrock also offered an example of the project’s success at varying points of intervention along the pineapple value chain and concluded by highlighting a few key lessons to help generate smallholder value in the value chain.

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