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Author or Institution as Author
Heike Ostermann
Co-authors

Margret Will, Kerstin Hell

Date of publication
Edition or Version
1.00
Institution
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Special unit ‘One World – No Hunger’
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Description/Abstract

The purpose of the RLAT is to provide a sufficiently accurate pre-screening tool for identifying intervention points along agribusiness Value Chains (VCs), working out incentives for VC operators and proposing measures to reduce pre- and post-harvest losses. The tool supports the design of concrete interventions that have the primary aim of improving food security at the subsistence level, either on farms or in communities, and the secondary aim of upgrading specific VCs.

Keywords
Loss Appraisal
Maize
Agribusiness
Value chains
Guide
Aflatoxin
Livestock
Crops
Contact name (for further information)
Heike Ostermann, Margret Will, Kerstin Hell
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Contact institution (for further information)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Citation

Ostermann, H. & Will, M. & Hell, K.2015. Rapid Loss Appraisal Tool (RLAT) for agribusiness value chains - User guide for maize, Deutsche Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Bonn and Eschborn, Germany

CCARDESA Category

Funding Partners

4.61M

Beneficiaries Reached

97000

Farmers Trained

3720

Number of Value Chain Actors Accessing CSA

41300

Lead Farmers Supported