A Diagnostic Perspective Assessment of the Production and Marketing System for Mangoes in the Eastern Caribbean
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The objective of this research was to provide USAID with a diagnostic-prescriptive
assessment of the mango commodity system that would be useful in the design and management of
USAID’s project portfolio. A secondary objective was to demonstrate how a market-guided food
systems approach could be applied to a particular commodity, thus facilitating coordination of
vertical stages in the agricultural production and marketing system. The food systems approach
begins with identification of consumer requirements in terms of product specifications and volume
flows, examines the production changes necessary to achieve these requirements, then
systematically diagnoses constraints at each stage in the production/marketing chain, and
prescribes realistic actions for their removal.