Nairobi 16 July, 2014 - Presentation by Marlowe U. Aquino and Prasun Kumar Das (APRACA) at the Fin4Ag Conference.

1. Application of Knowledge
Management on Value Chain
towards Sustainable Financial
Development
Marlowe U. Aquino
Prasun Kumar Das
Asia-Pacific Rural and Agricultural Credit Association (APRACA)
Bangkok, Thailand
Knowledge for
Development
© APRACA 2014

2. Knowledge for
Development
© APRACA 2014
• KNOWLEDGE has become the key economic
resource and the dominant source of
comparative advantage and as such, knowledge is
considered the driver of productivity and
economic growth.
Peter Drucker, 2002
• Knowledge is a comprehensive organization,
integration, interpretation, and analysis of
information and deliberately translated by the
human mind full of ideas and conception.

3. © APRACA 2014
Critical Stages Activities ICT tools and techniques
PRE-CULTIVATION
STAGE
Crop selection
Decision Support System (DSS)
Modelling software
Electronic media (e/m) learning,
Knowledge Management Systems (KMS)
Information kiosks
Land selection
DSS
Geographical Information System (GIS)
Remote sensing
e/m-consulting
KMS
Calendar definition
KMS
e/m-consulting
DSS
GIS
Access to credit
Networking tools (mobile phones, computers,
wireless networks etc.)
Management Information System (MIS)
e-commerce and mobile commerce

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Critical Stages Activities ICT tools and techniques
CROP
CULTIVATION
AND HARVESTING
Land preparation,
sowing/ transplanting
KMS
e/m-learning
e/m-consulting
Global Positioning System (GPS)
Geographic Information System (GIS)
computer controlled devices
machine to machine communication
(m2m)
sensor networks
Input (including
irrigation) management
DSS; MIS; GPS/GIS;
e/m-learning; sensor networks;
m2m communication
Pest Management
DSS; GIS; MIS; sensor networks;
m2m communication
Knowledge for
Development

5. Knowledge for
Development
© APRACA 2014
Critical Stages Activities ICT tools and techniques
POST-
HARVEST
Transportation
GPS, GIS, MIS, DBMS, tracking devices, m2m
communication
Processing
Farm to fork tracing tools – GPS, RFID, GIS,
DBMS, MIS, KMS, e/m-learning, e/m-
consulting, machine2machine
communication
Packaging
Tracing devices, KMS, e/m-learning, e/m-
consulting, GPS, GIS
Marketing
Networking tools (mobile phones, lo-fi
technologies) for broadcast, Info kiosks

6. RDE /E Programs,
Projects and Activities
Reports, Videos and other
communication materials
Accepted truth based on reality
which change the direction of
condition, state and even
perspective of a given
person, places
and events
Sources
Type
Kind
Strategies
Approaches
Translation
Utilization and
Application
The process of conversion of D-I-K transformation applied in agriculture and fisheries
value chain finance (Source: Aquino and Bonifacio 2006)

7. Collection
of
knowledge
Organization
of knowledge
Conversion of
knowledge
Preparation,
Processing
Packaging
Utilization
and
Application
Distribution
FEEDBACK
Acquisition
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RESOURCES
SUPPORT
SERVICES
PHASE I PHASE IIIPHASE II
6
The different phases and stages of knowledge management applied in agricultural
value chain finance towards sustainable financial development (Source: Aquino 2010)
Copyright© Aquino 2010
Knowledge for
Development

8. Define the
Vision
Mission
Goal
Objectives
Develop
Approach
Strategies
Activities
Set
Expected
outputs
Achieve
Desired
Outcome
SUSTAINABLE FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
AND DEVELOPMENT
Data – Information – Knowledge
Data – Information – Knowledge
AF Knowledge
Management
Value Chain
Finance Programs
Projects and
Activities including
Products and
Services
EMPOWERED
PEOPLE AND
COMMUNITIES
Dynamic interrelationships of influencing factors in AKM-VCF using the DIKAFD
Transformational Approach (Source: Aquino 2006, Aquino 2009).
Knowledge for
Development
Copyright© Aquino 2010

9. • Social Acceptability
• Technical Feasibility
• Economic Viability
• Environmentally Sound
• Politically Driven
• Changes in K-A-S-B for
Development
• Appropriateness of the
intervention
• Financial Management
considerations
• Protection-Conservation-
Management-Development
Modeling
• Inclusion of local governance
support
Copyright© Aquino 2008
Application of KM = ICT/ICM towards
sustainable financial management
and development

10. Information-sensitive/-oriented
value chain finance and resource
management
for assured, sustainable, and
quality agriculture and fishery
products and services for
global competitiveness
Knowledge for
Development
KM in Value Chain Finance

11. Knowledge for
Development
Concluding Statement
• Knowledge management in rural and agricultural
research, development and extension and now
finance has been realized to be a major factor in
the development and improvement of the
conditions of its key players and stakeholders.
• KM is continuous and ever evolving activity, our
knowledge creators and generators, processors
and disseminators will have no work to improve
our agriculture sector.

12. Knowledge for
Development
For further inquiries, please contact:
Dr. MARLOWE U. AQUINO
Dr. PRASUN KUMAR DAS
Asia-Pacific Rural and agricultural Credit Association (APRACA)
Room A 303, BAAC Bluilding
469 Nakhonsawan Road, Dusit, Bangkok, THAILAND
Tel. (+662) 280-0915 Fax. (+662) 280-1524
Email Addresses: marlowe@apraca.org
marloweaquino@yahoo.com
prasun@apraca.org
Website: www.apraca.org