Producer organisations as 21st-century farmer institutions

Prasad, C. Shambu; Kanitkar, Ajit; Dutta, Deborah

doi:10.4324/9781003308034-1

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“…They are seen as institutional innovations that can help small farmers participate successfully in modern competitive markets by provisioning various services, enhance member engagement and lead to producer agency and empowerment. They have strengthened the bargaining power and raised the voice of smallholders in the policy process (Bijman, 2016; Penrose-Buckley, 2007; Pingali et al , 2019; Prasad et al , 2023a; Ton et al , 2007; Trebbin and Hassler, 2012; Singh, 2021).…”

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Managing sustainable transition through farmer-owned enterprises: the case of Ram Rahim Pragati Producer Company

Saxena,

Prasad

2024

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Purpose Food systems research is typically focused on productivity and efficiency. But in the face of impending challenges of climate, investment, markets, and incomes small holders may do well to shift to diversity and sufficiency. The transition requires institutions such as Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs) to play the role of intermediaries. This paper aims to understand this challenging phenomenon using a case from India. Design/methodology/approach In this article, drawing from the emerging literature of PO as a sustainability transition intermediary, this paper uses the case study of a women-owned FPO and explores its role in contributing to sustainable food systems through practices of non-pesticide management of agriculture. This paper explores, through non-participant observer methods, focus group discussions and interviews with multiple stakeholders how an FPO embeds sustainability in its purpose and the challenges faced in transforming producer and consumers towards sustainable food systems. Findings The study argues for early articulation of the “sustainability transition intermediary” role in the FPO’s vision and mission. Second, FPOs’ role of being a transition intermediary is impacted by the key stakeholders and the durability of relationship with them. Originality/value By studying FPOs in India, from the framework of sustainability transitions, this article adds to the limited literature that looks as POs as sustainability transition intermediaries.

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“…Farmer Producer Companies (FPCs) have emerged since as the dominant form of FPOs since 2003 (Singh, 2008). An estimated 22,388 FPCs have been registered all over India from 2003 until March 2022 (Prasad et al , 2023a).…”

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Managing sustainable transition through farmer-owned enterprises: the case of Ram Rahim Pragati Producer Company

Saxena,

Prasad

2024

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“…Value for money prevents mindless advertising and overconsumption, and value for many prevents the accumulation of wealth in a few hands – all leading to sufficiency. Cooperatives provide the necessary bargaining power to small farmers through collective action (Prasad et al , 2023). Recognizing this importance, the Government of India has promoted 10,000 Farmers Producer Organizations (FPOs) through a central scheme in 2020 (PIB, 2023).…”

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Guest editorial: Towards operationalizing sufficiency

Nathan,

Amarayil Sreeraman,

Hari

et al. 2024

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All the while our world is undergoing several transitions. Improvement of efficiency in resource use is one of them. With every passing day, with technological improvements, all the systems of the world, at every stage, are becoming more and more efficient. Consider, for example, our electricity system. The processes of fuel extraction, processing and transportation have become more efficient over the centuries and decades. Similarly, the efficiencies of power production units have increased over time. So have the power transmission and distribution efficiencies. Also, the efficiency of electrical devices has increased multifold over the years. For instance, LED lighting is ten times more efficient than traditional incandescent bulbs (US Department of Energy, 2024). So, the efficiency of the electricity system is on the rise as you read this editorial.An increase in efficiency means that for the same output, one would consume less input. Hence, improvements in efficiency in different energy systems like that of the electricity system discussed above are expected to reduce the overall input of energy. Economic reasoning expects the income-primary energy relation of individual households and societies to follow an inverse-U path, with more avenues of energy use resulting in the initial increase, whereas efficient fuel/technology/process/device combinations resulting in a decrease in the later stage (Foster et al., 2000;Kowsari and Zerriffi, 2011). However, in reality, there is hardly any evidence of an inverse-U curve. It has been observed that with higher income, energy consumption increases for households and societies (Mestl and Eskeland, 2009;Kowsari and Zerriffi, 2011). This increase can be explained by conspicuous consumption and rebound effects (Gillingham et al., 2020). Conspicuous consumption has to do with our pursuit of positional goods, which indicate status: positional goods are valued for their relative abundance or scarcity, especially because they are those that are possessed by a few (Hirsch, 1976;Frank, 2008). In addition to conspicuous consumption, rebound effects manifest as overconsumption of efficient systems. For instance, with a fuel-efficient car, people tend to drive more; with LED lighting, people tend to use more lighting fixtures; or with an efficient computer monitor, people tend to have a larger screen size. Stated succinctly, it is clear that increases in resource efficiency have not led to decreases in our resource consumption. This calls for a paradigm shift in addressing resource consumption vis-a-vis resource efficiency.Here we introduce sufficiency, the significance of which has not been hitherto adequately recognized in the economics of resources. The sufficiency paradigm focuses on reducing excess output, unlike the efficiency paradigm where the focus is on reducing excess input per output. More explicitly, sufficiency goes beyond efficiency, with the objective of reducing total resource consumption at all levelshousehold and higher levels (Thomas et al., 2017). It calls for ...

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