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Financial access and digital services within agri-food value chains in Bangladesh

author(s) Ambler, Kate - Bloem, Jeffrey R. - de Brauw, Alan - Islam, Saiful - Wagner, Julia
from CGIAR - Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers
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regions
  • Southern Asia
  • Asia
  • World
citation

Ambler, Kate; Bloem, Jeffrey R.; de Brauw, Alan; Islam, Saiful; and Wagner, Julia. 2023. Financial access and digital services within agri-food value chains in Bangladesh. IFPRI Project Note December 2023. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.137050.
Financial access and digital services within agri-food value chains in Bangladesh

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Abstract

Agri-food value chains are a crucial element of food systems and local economies around the world. Existing estimates show that intermediary agri-food value chain actors—the operating enterprises that transport and transform food from the farmgate to retailers—account for 60 to 75 percent of value-added produced by the entire agricultural sector of an economy.

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