Value Chain Analysis
Finding Growth Opportunities Across the Value Chain
Value chain analysis helps uncover where value growth can happen and what might be holding it back. Prime Consulting works across the full food and fibre system to identify opportunities, remove barriers and strengthen the links that create real value for producers, businesses and communities.
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Insight shaped by stakeholders
Our approach is grounded in strong economic and commercial analysis, and is also shaped by collaboration. We work closely with all stakeholders so that the findings are practical, locally owned and aligned with the realities of each market.
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Evidence for better decisions
By mapping and quantifying where value is created and captured, we build an evidence base that can inform better decision making. This helps clients spot value addition opportunities that might otherwise be missed and make confident investment decisions.
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Strength in complex settings
Prime Consulting works well in complex environments involving many people and interests. Our teams engage effectively with government agencies, farmers, processors, service providers, cooperatives, non-government organisations and community groups.
What a comprehensive value chain analysis usually involves:
Reviewing existing background information
Visiting sites to understand operations first-hand
Speaking with internal and external stakeholders through interviews and meetings
Assessing both qualitative and quantitative evidence to identify opportunities across the value chain
Our goal is to ensure all viable opportunities are considered, and that the connections between them are clear and well understood.
Examples of our value chain work:
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![A man filling large stainless steel containers with water from a tap outdoors, surrounded by greenery and trees.]()
Designing and implementing two long-term donor-funded programmes aimed at improving the sustainability of dairy value chains in Fiji and Zambia.
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![Three piglets outdoors near a wooden fence, with grass and dirt on the ground.]()
Analysing the national pork value chain for the New Zealand Pork Industry Board and recommending improvements.
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![Two herders tending goats in a dusty, mountainous rural area surrounded by a barbed wire fence.]()
Delivering value addition support in Afghanistan’s livestock products industry through co-funded grants and targeted technical assistance to processing and marketing firms.
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![supported the development of a purified wheat seed industry]()
As part of the Afghanistan Agricultural Support Programme, the team supported the development of a purified wheat seed industry. Growers received a price premium that encouraged long term participation, while average yields rose from 1.5 tonnes to 4.1 tonnes per hectare, significantly improving food security.
