Analysis of EU legume value chains from the H2020 LegValue project: What insights for organic value chains?

Smadja, Tiana; Muel, Fréderic

doi:10.1051/ocl/2021005

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“…The value chains initiated to satisfy the demand of the organic market have the downstream farmers as the main actors. While the approach of value chains toward the development of organic agriculture has as main actors those located upstream from the farmers [45], regarding the distribution of economic benefits, farmers often have the smallest margins compared to intermediaries [26]. Value chain research in organic agriculture in Europe is limited.…”

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Barriers and Levers in the Development of the Value Chain of Organic Vegetables in Romania

Dan,

Jitea

2023

Sustainability

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As people become more and more aware of health issues, environmental protection, and climate change, there is a major shift to organic food consumption in our society. Among the main organic products consumed, we highlight vegetables because they are a major source of vitamins and minerals. The paper aims to carry out an analysis of the value chain of organic vegetables in Romania. This study presents the results of the analysis of the value chain of organic vegetables regarding aspects such as chain mapping, governance structure, and chain modernization. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with key chain actors. The research shows that the value chain of organic vegetables in Romania is simple and short; in 45.5% of cases, there is only a distributor between the producer and the final customer. The processing function being poorly developed, 90% of the vegetables get to be marketed fresh. The study identified the main barriers to the development of this system, namely low demand for organic products and high legislative volatility. Key actors also suggested some levers to overcome barriers, such as campaigns to inform and educate consumers about organic products and their benefits and better targeted public policies.

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Section: Value Chain Upgradationmentioning

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Barriers and Levers in the Development of the Value Chain of Organic Vegetables in Romania

Dan,

Jitea

2023

Sustainability

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“…Likewise, (Ganguly and Gulati 2022) in India revealed that pulses value chains development was helpful in addressing the observed protein gap in the diets and also improve the livelihood of the smallholder farmers. However, Smadja and Muel (2021) contended that in developing countries structural bottlenecks regarding pulses value chains development varied along with regions and countries. Thus, country specific or region-specific investigation is required for effective and robust value chain development.…”

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Identifying the Constraints and Opportunities for Increasing Pulses’ Production and Value Chain Development in Pakistan: A Delphi Approach

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Pulses are rich source of protein and linked to countless positive impacts on human health as well as plant health because these are the nitrogen fixing crops. Likewise, pulses centric meal are widely adopted as better source to overcome severe acute malnutrition. In Pakistan, decreasing trend in production and continuous rise in pulses prices reduced the economic access of the people particularly of people falling under poverty to pulses. Pulses are grown in the rain-fed areas in Pakistan. The unusual rainfall highly affects pulses crop and climatic conditions; therefore, farmers have a high risk of getting attractive prices consistently. Marketing of Pulses is mainly in private hands and farmers usually sell to village dealer without any value addition after harvesting. This research is designed to identify the constraints and opportunities for enhancing pulses production and value chain development in Pakistan through employing Delphi Approach. The results revealed that lack of availability of improved varieties/good quality seeds of pulses is identified as the most critical barrier in increasing the production and cropped area under the pulses. In addition, no policy support from the government, poor marketing, and no value chain existence resulting in low prices received by the farmer are also considered a source of the decline farmers' interest in the pulses. The findings of this study highlighted that development of pest, disease, and climate change-resistant varieties and development of competitive pulses value chains could play vital role in making Pakistan self-sufficient in the pulses. The findings identified here the important set of barriers and opportunities for the industry and policymakers. Hence these indicators should help farmers and relevant stakeholders to monitor pulses production sustainability and guide decision makers to make appropriate policies for pulses sector in Pakistan.

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A participatory and multi-actor approach to locally support crop diversification based on the case study of camelina in northern France

Leclère

Loyce

Jeuffroy

2023

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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Despite the acknowledged benefits of crop diversification, the transition towards more diversified cropping systems needs to be supported, mainly due to socio-technical lock-ins favoring major dominant crop species. This calls for the development of new approaches to support the design of locally tailored diversified cropping systems. This paper aims to present an original participatory and multi-actor design approach, developed to support the introduction of camelina (Camelina sativa) into the cropping systems of northern France and to provide some insights about the characteristics, the specificities, and the limits of this approach to support its use and adaptation to other contexts. For 3 years, and in connection with the development of an oilseed biorefinery, we gathered a variety of actors (farmers, advisors, engineers in agronomy, researchers, and industrialists) to locally support the introduction of camelina in the cropping systems. First, we illustrate the diversity of the modalities that have been collectively imagined to introduce and manage camelina in the local cropping systems. Then, we describe the originality and the diversity of the knowledge produced on camelina, especially during the assessment of some of these modalities within on-farm experiments. Finally, drawing on concepts and theories from design sciences, we show that (i) the pre-existence of networks of actors, (ii) the rationale involvement of the actors, (iii) the implementation of a situated design process fueled by action and distributed among actors, (iv) the sharing and the circulation of knowledge among a diversity of actors involved in the production and use of the new crop, and (v) the implementation of an effective network management contributed to foster the three key elements that we identified as crucial to support crop diversification, namely, the production of actionable knowledge, the exploration of new ideas/concepts, and the active participation of a diversity of actors of the agri-food system.

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Analysis of EU legume value chains from the H2020 LegValue project: What insights for organic value chains?

Cited by 6 publications

References 7 publications

Barriers and Levers in the Development of the Value Chain of Organic Vegetables in Romania

Barriers and Levers in the Development of the Value Chain of Organic Vegetables in Romania

Identifying the Constraints and Opportunities for Increasing Pulses’ Production and Value Chain Development in Pakistan: A Delphi Approach

A participatory and multi-actor approach to locally support crop diversification based on the case study of camelina in northern France

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