Collective action for market chain innovation in the Andes

Devaux, A.; Horton, Douglas; Rios-Velasco, Claudio; Thiele, Graham; López, Gastón; Bernet, Thomas; Reinoso, Iván; Ordinola, Miguel

doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2008.10.007

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“…Public-private partnerships were seen as important for conducting the capacity building needed to develop and gain adoption of such practices. Other contributions to the literature on smallholder participation in highvalue food chains include Marshall et al (2006), Devaux et al (2009, Perez-Aleman (2012) and Donovan and Poole (2014).…”

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“…It is significant also that the SES framework was developed from the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework which itself has been widely applied and extensively elaborated (Marshall 2005;Ostrom 2005), including by researchers focused on value chains for food (e.g. Devaux et al 2009;Meinzen-Dick et al 2009;Horton et al 2011) and other primary products (e.g. Blam et al 2000;Flinkman 2004), since it was developed over three decades ago.…”

Section: A Role For the Ses Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A social-ecological systems framework for food systems research: accommodating transformation systems and their products

Marshall¹

2015

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Abstract:The social-ecological systems (SES) framework was developed to support communication across the multiple disciplines concerned with sustainable provision and/or appropriation of common-pool resources (CPRs). Transformation activities (e.g. processing, distribution, retailing) in which value is added to resource units appropriated from CPRs were assumed in developing the framework to be exogenous to the SES of focal concern. However, provision and appropriation of CPRs are nowadays often closely integrated with the market economy, so significant interdependence exists between many CPR provision/appropriation activities and the activities in which appropriated resource units are transformed into the products ultimately marketed or consumed. This paper presents a modified version of the SES framework designed to better account for transformation activities in order to be more suitable for diagnosing those sustainability problems where it is inappropriate to define all such activities as exogenous to the SES of focal concern. The need for such modification was identified in a research project examining the challenges faced by Cambodian cattle-owning smallholders in accessing value chains for premium-priced beef. Hence the immediate focus was on strengthening the SES framework's value for facilitating a multi-disciplinary diagnostic approach to food system research projects of this kind. The modified SES framework's potential in this respect was illustrated by a preliminary application that drew on literature reviewed for the Cambodian project. Significant further potential exists in using the modified framework as a foundation from which to develop a version that is suitable for application to SESs in which transformation systems are appropriately represented as endogenous. Maintaining consistency with the standard SES framework will enable communication to occur more effectively between food system researchers and CPR scholars more generally. 882Graham R. Marshall

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A social-ecological systems framework for food systems research: accommodating transformation systems and their products

Marshall¹

2015

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“…Increasingly complex supply chains and economic networks tie farming production, processing, and marketing together (often unevenly) across markets and jurisdictions. With this process of development comes increasing pressure on the economic well-being (and nutrition security) of smallholders, who are often at a disadvantage compared with larger commercial farmers capable of supplying larger volumes of quality-assured products with more bargaining power and better access to information, services, technology, and capital (84). In addition, this process has implications for diet composition and health, with a transition from fresh and minimally processed food to highly processed food and from domestic local supply to multinational concentrated supply (85)(86)(87).…”

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A systems science perspective and transdisciplinary models for food and nutrition security

Hammond

Dubé

2012

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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We argue that food and nutrition security is driven by complex underlying systems and that both research and policy in this area would benefit from a systems approach. We present a framework for such an approach, examine key underlying systems, and identify transdisciplinary modeling tools that may prove especially useful.complexity | agri-food | health | disease | environment N utrition is a fundamental human need, affecting health and well-being throughout the lifespan in myriad ways. A central concept in the study of human nutrition is food and nutrition security, which is typically defined as "when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life" (1). The absence of food and nutrition security can have significant consequences for individuals and for society, including malnutrition, obesity, disease, and poverty.Despite rapid growth in agricultural production over the past four decades, significant malnutrition persists. Average per-capita food consumption was below the recommended 2,200 kcal/d in 33 countries in 2003. Globally, more than 850 million people lack adequate access to food on a regular basis, with a third of these in East and Southeast Asia, another third in South Asia, and a quarter in sub-Saharan Africa. In sub-Saharan Africa, one of the most food-insecure regions, the number of hungry people has gone up by 20% since 1990; more than a third of the population is undernourished in such countries as Kenya and Tanzania. There are 126 million underweight children in the world and over 2 billion people who suffer from micronutrient deficiency (2-4).At the same time, there has been an alarming rise in obesity in the developed world (5, 6) and, increasingly, in the developing world as well (7-9). The obesity rate in the United States doubled between 1970 and 2000, to almost 30% (5); worldwide, nearly 1.5 billion people are now overweight or obese (9). Like malnutrition, obesity has significant implications for public health (10, 11) and health care costs (12). Obesity can coexist in the same populations as malnutrition, and it may be linked to the same forces that drive reductions in malnutrition (13, 14). Complexity of Food and Nutrition SecurityBoth phenomena, malnutrition and obesity, are manifestations of widespread food and nutrition insecurity. The determinants of this insecurity are complex. A primary driver of food security or insecurity is the agricultural food system. The agrifood system spans a series of interrelated processes, including production of raw food materials through farming and raising of livestock, processing and packaging for consumption, distribution, and utilization by consumers (15). These processes are affected by a range of influences, including diffusion of agricultural technology (16, 17), functioning of capital markets, infrastructure at both local and regional/global levels, organization of firms and supply chains, sociopolitical factors ...

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“…Acknowledging that smallholders are severely resource-constrained, FMOs may play a crucial role in the creation of strategic resources and competencies (Devaux et al 2009;Francesconi and Heerink 2010;Fischer and Qaim 2011;Markelova et al 2009;Poulton et al 2010). In the small business and entrepreneurship literature, the use of collective economies to create a competitive advantage are well known and discussed as the exploitation of 'external economies of scale' and Malthusian 'agglomeration effects' (Oughton and Whittam 1997;Schmitz 1999).…”

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African farmers’ market organizations and global value chains: competitiveness versus inclusiveness

Lutz

Tadesse²

2017

Review of Social Economy

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This conceptual paper discusses the challenges smallholder producer cooperatives in developing countries face while trying to access agricultural global value chains. We assess the problem of competitiveness related to lack of commitment and improper selection. Prioritization of open membership over selection is generally taken for granted in the policy debate on farmers' market organizations (FMOs).We argue that open membership may work in community-driven organizations, however, it becomes a major threat for entrepreneurial FMOs. Inclusion facilitates free riding, which forms a barrier for investments of members. This is one of the major reasons why so many of these organizations are so much resource constrained, i.e. are not able to compete in the market without external support. FMOs should take targeting and selection serious if entrepreneurial activities are intended. Otherwise, they miss the opportunity to create a committed member base willing to invest in a potentially competitive organization.

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Collective action for market chain innovation in the Andes

Cited by 204 publications

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A social-ecological systems framework for food systems research: accommodating transformation systems and their products

A social-ecological systems framework for food systems research: accommodating transformation systems and their products

A systems science perspective and transdisciplinary models for food and nutrition security

African farmers’ market organizations and global value chains: competitiveness versus inclusiveness

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