Africa has enormous agricultural potential due to the diversity of its agro-ecological landscape which provides a wide variety of agricultural, livestock and fishery products. In addition, it has one of the richest subsoils in the world, not yet fully exploited. However, harvesting conditions, inadequate infrastructure and lack of know-how sometimes limit their conservation and / or processing. In addition, the existing processing structures do not always take into account the complete transformation of their raw materials. However, several studies have shown that the competitive advantage requires a strong consideration of this aspect in the analysis of the value chain, the main objective of which is to detect the points of the chain likely to bring additional economic value to the overall structure. Implementing a cascade of transformation methods, which typically results in new products, requires a good stakeholder management strategy and good business architecture. The Conference on the theme: « Value Chains, Integral Transformations of Local Resources » will help to address the issue of industrialization in Africa. It will surely provide a number of answers to questions relating to the transformation of our local resources, their potential to provide a competitive advantage, that is to say to promote the economic development of our populations and therefore of Africa in his outfit.
Local Resource Exploitation