High Value Products/Services and Value Chains

Giridhar KinhalTeam Leader HVP-VCs ICIMOD

High Value Products/Services

• Promoting the development of mountain high value niche products (e.g. Non-Timber Forest Products, medicinal, aromatic plants, beekeeping) & Services e.g. Tourism

High Value Products

Comparative Advantages: • Highly diverse resource base in the

mountains• Traditional knowledge is available• Less competition with plain areas• High demand for products in emerging

markets

Value Chain Approach

The Value Chain Approach is used as a central tool to identify strategies for income generation and poverty reduction. • Focussing on strengthening rural-urban and highland-lowland

linkages through analysis and interventions in pro-poor value chains.• Analysis leads to identification of leverage points for pro-poor

interventions• Development of a ‘Pro-poor Mountain Sensitive Value Chain

Framework’ Interventions: • Product quality and quantity• Quality control mechanisms and standards (labelling, certification,

organic production)• Development of market information systems for mountain producers• Policy change

Linking Poor Producers to Markets: Developing Pro-poor Value Chains for Cinnamomum tamala (Bay leaf): ODI/IDRC

Thrusts

Nepal: Through FECOFUN• Producer groups: Private • Producers: Trader contract• Quality: Local certificationIndia : Through HARC• Government ownership• Women SHGs• Policy readjustments: Harvest area and Mandi system• Equitable allocation of resource

“Enhancing Livelihood & Reducing Poverty of Mountain People by Linking High Value Products & Services (HVPS) to Value Chain Development”

Ford Foundation

• Nepal: Ritha through ANSAB

• India : Malta through HARC

Tourism development through Community participation

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