From: Yona Maro

Food value chains (FVCs) comprise all activities required to bring farm products to consumers, including agricultural production, processing, storage, marketing, distribution, and consumption. FVCs are changing rapidly in developing countries (DCs), because of population and income growth; urbanization; and the expansion, globally and domestically, of modern food retailing, distribution, and wholesaling fi rms.

The increased output required to meet growing food demand can be sustained only with increased labor, energy, land, and water productivity. Historically, agricultural productivity growth reduces poverty through higher profits for net producers, increased employment and/or real wages for workers, and lower prices for consumers.

http://dyson.cornell.edu/faculty_sites/cbb2/Papers/Science-2011-G%C3%B3mez-1154-5.pdf

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