Reviews
"Making Markets More Inclusive shows how sustained support across the range of value chain activities is essential in assisting poor producers to grasp new market opportunities." - Raphael Kaplinsky, author, A Handbook for Value Chain Research"This is a rare book that makes the local relevant for the global by drawing out lessons from CARE's project work in Bangladesh's dairy industry. The result is highly relevant for other countries, sectors, and aid agencies. The authors achieve this through a flexible, pragmatic, and ultimately satisfying application of value chain tools, from the presentation of simple sector selection and mapping methods to drawing out key insights from global value chain governance theory. The eyes are always on the prize: achieving poverty alleviation and environmental sustainability by 'intervening to enhance women's decision making power, control over assets or otherwise change women's roles and relationships in the value chain...' There's much to be commended in this book!" - Timothy J. Sturgeon, author, The Governance of Global Value Chains; Senior Research Affiliate, Industrial Performance Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA"Strategies to increase the income of smallholder farmers are central to poverty reduction. McKague and Siddiquee provide an in-depth case study of CARE's successful work in the dairy industry in Bangladesh. More importantly, they draw out lessons that will be useful for value chain development for other agricultural products in any country." - Aneel Karnani, author, Fighting Poverty Together; Associate Professor of Strategy, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, USA, " Making Markets More Inclusive shows how sustained support across the range of value chain activities is essential in assisting poor producers to grasp new market opportunities." - Raphael Kaplinsky, author, A Handbook for Value Chain Research "This is a rare book that makes the local relevant for the global by drawing out lessons from CARE's project work in Bangladesh's dairy industry. The result is highly relevant for other countries, sectors, and aid agencies. The authors achieve this through a flexible, pragmatic, and ultimately satisfying application of value chain tools, from the presentation of simple sector selection and mapping methods to drawing out key insights from global value chain governance theory. The eyes are always on the prize: achieving poverty alleviation and environmental sustainability by 'intervening to enhance women's decision making power, control over assets or otherwise change women's roles and relationships in the value chain...' There's much to be commended in this book!" - Timothy J. Sturgeon, author, The Governance of Global Value Chains; Senior Research Affiliate, Industrial Performance Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA "Strategies to increase the income of smallholder farmers are central to poverty reduction. McKague and Siddiquee provide an in-depth case study of CARE's successful work in the dairy industry in Bangladesh. More importantly, they draw out lessons that will be useful for value chain development for other agricultural products in any country." - Aneel Karnani, author, Fighting Poverty Together; Associate Professor of Strategy, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, USA "With insight and clarity, Making Markets More Inclusive brings to life the challenges, successes, and lessons learned from the complex but rewarding task of enhancing value chains for the benefit of smallholder farmers. Required reading for anyone interested in market-based approaches to development." - Tamara Abed, Senior Director, Social Enterprises, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, Bangladesh "There are relatively few value chain development publications that successfully combine a practical 'how to' approach with a strong conceptual unpinning and, perhaps most importantly, strong evidence for what works. This synthesis of CARE's work in Bangladesh, with its foundations in a robust understanding of current thinking and best practice, is an important contribution to the inclusive market development evidence base." - Christopher Coles, author of Markets and Rural Poverty: Upgrading in Value Chains "Companies have enormous potential to fight poverty if the market systems they share with the poor can be strengthened a complex, daunting task involving many stakeholders. By offering specific and replicable 'how tos,' this book fills a critical gap in the literature for all those willing to step up to the leadership challenge." - Beth Jenkins, Insights Director, Business Fights Poverty, USA "Value chain is a widely used concept in the recent literature on agricultural market development in developing countries. McKague and Siddiquee's analysis of dairy value chain development in Bangladesh will be particularly useful to investors in markets and development agencies." - Mohammad Jabbar, former Senior Agricultural Economist, International Livestock Research Institute, Ethiopia "This is a timely contribution to the literature on market and value chain development, which provides unique and practical insights. It should feature as a key reading for development practitioners considering designing interventions in this area." - Jodi Keane, author of A New Approach to Global Value Chain Analysis
