USAID Breakfast Seminar Series
Linking Small Firms to Competitiveness Strategies
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This is a monthly series sponsored by USAID’s Microenterprise Development office. Each seminar aims to share timely research developed under the  Accelerated Microenterprise Advancement Project (text-only), as well as other enterprise development research conducted by USAID’s partners. The ongoing seminar series serves as a platform to disseminate knowledge and best practices in the field of enterprise development, particularly focusing on USAID’s Value Chain approach (text-only).

Note: Transcripts of all our screencasts () can be made available upon request. Please e-mail microlinks@microlinks.org to request a copy.

Recent Event:  January 28, 2010  Download  Screencast Download this presentation >> Ruth Campbell and David Neven presented “Does the Value Chain Approach have Relevance for Food Security? The Case of Rice in West Africa.”  The seminar was the 46th installment of the Linking Small Firms to Competitiveness Strategies Breakfast Seminar Series.  Read more about Breakfast #46 (text-only).	OTHER ONGOING EVENTS Microfinance Learning and Innovations: After Hours Seminar Series [ TEXT ONLY ]

Past Seminars

November 2009. Brook Johnson, Juggling Environmental and Economic Goals in Natural Resource Value Chains: Apples and Oranges?
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October 2009. Elizabeth Dunn, Methods for Evaluation Value Chains in a Dynamic Context: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly.

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September 2009. Agnes Dasewicz and Sam Reid, Trust and Information Flow in the Value Chain: Lessons from the Zambia PROFIT Community-Based Agent Network Model.
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August 2009. Marina Krivoshlykova and Jennefer Sebstad, Mobile Money: How Cell Phone Payments Could Transform the Zambian Agricultural Value Chain.

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July 2009. Cristina Manfre and Deborah Rubin, Integrating Gender into Agricultural Value Chains: Experiences from Kenya and Tanzania.
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June 2009. Ka-Hay Law, Organizational Capacity: Why the Value Chain Approach May Fail.
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May 2009. Joe Dougherty, Value Chain Finance the Hard Way: Lessons from Zambia.
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, Early Lessons Targeting Vulnerable Populations with a Value Chain Approach.
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January 2009. Mike Ducker, Catalyzing Value Chain Development: What We Say, What We Do, and What Roles We Should Play.
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Presentation

Breakfast # 37: Catalyzing Value Chain Development: What We Say, What We Do, and What Roles We Should Play      breakfast #37.pps
Breakfast #38: Early Lessons Targeting Vulnerable Populations with a Value Chain Approach      Breakfast #38.pdf
Breakfast #39: Value Chain Finance the Hard Way: Lessons from Zambia      Breakfast#39 Dougherty.pdf
Breakfast #40: Organizational Capacity: Why the Value Chain Approach May Fail      LAW_June Breakfast_PDF.pdf
Breakfast #41: Integrating Gender into Agricultural Value Chains: Experiences from Kenya and Tanzania      Seminar #41_Final GATE Presentation_July_PDF.pdf
Breakfast #42: Trust and Information Flow in the Value Chain: Lessons from the Zambia PROFIT Community-based Agent Network Model      42_Sebstad & Krivoshlykova.pdf
Breakfast #43: Mobile Money: How Cell Phone Payments Will Transform the Zambian Agricultural Value Chain      Seminar #43 Presentation.pdf
Breakfast #44: Methods for Evaluating Value Chains in a Dynamic Context: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly      Breakfast Seminar #44.pdf
Breakfast #45: Juggling Environmental and Economic Goals in Natural Resource Value Chains: Apples and Oranges?      #45 Seminar_Johnson_November.pdf
Breakfast #46: Does the Value Chain Approach Have Relevance for Food Security? The Case of Rice in West Africa      Breakfast Jan 28 10 - Campbell_Neven_Rice.pdf

Documents

Call-In and Webinar Instructions for Breakfast Seminar Series