Value-addition and SME’s: raison d’etre and lessons learnt

Abstract

This fiche describes work undertaken by the SmartFish Programme to support SME’s in achieving value-addition (including by reducing losses). Particularly, SME’s which rely on small-pelagic resources which are gaining a growing interest from the burgeoning middle class urban African consumer. The fiche also summarises a number of key lessons that could be used to inform similar work in the future, in comparable contexts.