Business Intelligence | Emerging Markets | August 2025
Agricultural Value Chains in Emerging Markets
Aggregation models, post-harvest loss and the commercial case for structured offtake.
Executive Summary
Post-harvest loss remains the largest recoverable value pool across the chains studied.
Key Findings
29%
average post-harvest loss across studied chains
Concentrated at aggregation and first-mile transport.
2.1x
price spread between farmgate and urban wholesale
Largely absorbed by transport and spoilage.
Where value leaks
Losses cluster in the 48 hours after harvest. Interventions at storage and first-mile logistics deliver the highest recovery per unit invested.
Loss by chain stage
Weighted across four crops.
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