The IPMS project aims to improve the productivity and market success of Ethiopian farmers through commodity value chain development by addressing issues such as inadequate input supply and limited knowledge. Key interventions include establishing market information systems and enhancing linkages between producers and service providers. The project emphasizes the importance of market-oriented approaches and collective action among producers to improve agricultural output and processing.

1. Commodity Value chain Development
Improving Productivity and Market Success of Ethiopian Farmers (IPMS) Project
www.ipms-ethiopia.org
Diagnosis of the commodity Value Chain
 Limited knowledge and skills on commodity value chain development  Inadequate production and supply of inputs
 Inadequate linkages between producers, input and service providers,  Limited adoption of improved technology
and other value chain actors  Imperfect market for output producers
Service Services Value chain Interventions
providers Intervention actors
Processing and marketing
Established technical and market information provision system
Traders and
Market information system Processors
Cooperative milk processing onion bulking
Public institutions: research
Knowledge centers Field visits
(national and regional), education
institutions agricultural extension
Setup 28 Knowledge centers
offices at national, regional, zonal
and district levels
onion storage Banana ripening
MSC/BSc education, research and in-service training Output production
Knowledge/ Skills
Input Supply
MoA, EIAR, Education
institutions, private
Services
Cooperative shops,
Kabuli chickpea production Fattening
sectors, consultants,
specialized farmers,
NGOs, students
public enterprises,
vaccine laboratory, Output
private enterprises
producers
Producers
Credit breed improvement Forage developmen0t
Marketing Microfinance
Cooperative shops institutions
Public enterprises Cooperatives
NGOs/Projects Private industry
Restaurants Shops
Improved banana production Improved mango production
Input production
Input
AI service Delivery, Apiary input supply
producers
Pullet production Seedling production
MFI institutions, cooperatives,
Private businesses, National Artificial
Insemination Center, private input
suppliers service provider,
Paravet services concentrate feed shops
Onion seed production
Documentation Key lessons learned
Onion seed production Fruit seedling nursery
 30 working papers produced and published on hard copies and electronic copies,  Market oriented commodity development is context specific and requires interventions based on a diagnosis of the
 IPMS videos (12) on innovation stories of various commodities produced on targeted value chain system.
DVDs,  Market oriented commodity value chain development is a continuous process which requires new knowledge, skills and
 Various brochures and posters on value chain development including Knowledge partner linkages over time.
management, Capacity development and Commodities,  Small holders should have increased access to knowledge, skills, inputs and markets.
 120 MSc and BSc thesis reports of IPMS sponsored students compiled and availed  The provision of input and service to the producers can increasingly be commercialized by private sector partners,
on project website, including cooperatives.
 Articles in national and international journals and proceedings,  The marketing and processing of agricultural outputs can be improved through collective action by the producers and
 Training manuals and toolkits on market oriented commodity development through increased linkages between producers and traders/processors.
produced,  Over time, value chain actors – who add value at different stages of production and processing - can increasingly lead
 Project website established for availing published and unpublished project the value chain development process.
documentations.  The public sector extension services should be capacitated in market oriented extension to support this process by
gradually changing its role from supplier of inputs and services to knowledge broker and facilitator. Use of IT based
technologies can strengthen these roles of the extension system.
 Government can support commercialization process through the development of road and communication
infrastructure, developing a regulatory framework and facilitating business service development.
Scaling out and up
 Technology exhibitions at national and regional levels
 Field days, seminars, livestock fairs, conferences and workshops
 Distribution of lessons and experiences through DVDs, posters, working papers
 Broadcasting good practices through radio and TV, in local languages: Translat-
ing documents to local languages