Chapter 6

The role of the private sector and the engagement

of smallholder farmers in food value chains:

initiatives and successful cases from

Nigeria, Senegal, and Ghana

Ndidi NUWELI, Arona DIAW, Festus KWADZOKPO and Aziz ELBEHRI^1

(^1) Authors are respectively co-founder of AACE Foods (Nigeria), researcher at GRET (Senegal), consultant with
GIZ-MOAP/AFC (Ghana), and senior economist (FAO). Nuweli contributed the section on Nigeria; Diaw on Senegal
and Kwadzokpo on Ghana. The chapter also includes contributions from participants at the joint FAO-IFAD regional
workshop on “Rebuilding West Africa food potential, held in Accra, Ghana July 4-5, 2012; these include: the OVCF
program by Kofi Atta Agyepong, KfW–Accra, the NRGP project in Northern Ghana by Paul Siameh, and the RTIMP
initiative on cassava in Ghana by Vincent Akoto.