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• 1.1 Lecture 1: introductie

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• Who are the traditional planners?

  • Government
    
  • communities
    

• What is shown in the value chain approach?

  Processes, inputs and outputs involved in bringing a product form raw material, through processing and production to final consumers and ultimately disposal.
  
  Activities are being conducted by stakeholders both direct (harvesters) and indirect (banks).

• What is the aim of the value chain approach?

  To improve sustainability of product as it is transformed from natural resource to a porduct and then consumed

• What is done in the value chain approach?

  Interventions to maximise socio-economic impacts and govern, manage and minimise negative ecological/social impacts.

• What is the aim of the landscape approach?

  To create a spatial framework for people to govern and manage land and resources.

• 1.2 Lecture 2: Value chain approach

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• What are forest and natural product value chains?

  “Processes, inputs and outputs involved in bringing a product from the raw material, through processing and production, to delivery to final consumers and ultimately disposal and
  
  Activities conducted by various stakeholders both direct (harvesters, processors, traders, retailers and service providers) and indirect (banks, government agencies, support organisations)”

• On what does the sustainability of a value chain depend on?

  1. Species characteristics
  2. Chain governance
  3. Context (spatial coincidence tropical forests + world’s rural poor)

• What is chain governance?

  Arrangements regulating access to species and places and regulating access to markets.
  
  Generally negative impact of commercialising a wild product unless governance arrangements avoid, control and mitigate unsustainable exploitation.

• How are VC aporaches used in planning?

  1. To understand trade and economic globalization - mapping activities 
     
  2. Understand how people, firms, landscapes, regions and countries economically linked
  3. Disaggregate benefits of participation in chains for different stakeholders
     
  4. Disaggregate benefits of participation in chains for different stakeholders
     
  5. So they can intervene

• What does the economic calue chain development theory assume?

  1. Global value chains can create employment for the poor 
  2. Employment raises incomes and improves living standards 
  3. Poor producers and employees may have absolute increase in jobs compared to other actors in a chain