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

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.

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.