Sustainable markets and value chains

The pressures of globalization and liberalization are creating exclusive supply chains between preferred business partners. Smallholder agriculture is poorly prepared for these changes.

A targeted effort is needed to include poorer households in value chains: organizational development, technical upgrading, management skills and access to financing are all required. KIT Chains was set up to address these issues.

Mission

We work on rural poverty alleviation by developing value chains that benefit smallholder producers in low-income countries. We integrate three dimensions of sustainability: social, ecological and economic or “people, planet, profit.”