The social construction of “shared growth”: Zambia Sugar and the uneven terrain of social benefit

German, Laura; Parker, Lowery

doi:10.1111/joac.12270

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“…The Inclusive business concept has been mainly developed by different international and national organisations (ENDEVA 2010; AVINA 2007; SNV and WBCSD 2010; SNV and WBCSD 2008) and has been used in several studies related to the topic (Arora, Kazmi and Bahar 2012; Chamberlain and Anseeuw 2019; German and Parker 2019; Halme, Lindeman, and Linna 2012; London, Anupindi, and Sheth 2010).…”

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Institutional Factors That Affect Inclusive Businesses: The Case of Banana Cooperatives in the Magdalena Region (Colombia)

Maestre-Matos

Lombana

Mesías

et al. 2021

International Journal of Rural Management

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Inclusive business as a model at the base of the pyramid is a relatively recent unit of study in academic literature. From the institutional perspective, businesses are affected by norms, processes, rules of moral and ethical behaviour, which have not been studied for the base of the pyramid in inclusive businesses, much less in agricultural cooperatives. The objective of this research is to identify institutional factors that can affect agribusiness inclusive models. In this research, agricultural cooperatives of banana production in the province of Magdalena, Colombia, are the unit of analysis to identify institutional factors. The method of review of institutional factors is the multiple cases (six banana cooperatives) with a simple unit using inductive analysis. The results show that institutional factors—both formal (certifications, quality standards, social responsibility policies and economic incentives) and informal (cooperation, improvement of quality of life, generation of social capital)—promote the development of inclusive businesses in cooperatives of the base of the pyramid. The research is a first step to show its potential replication in other agricultural industries and even in other economic sectors.

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confidence: 99%

Institutional Factors That Affect Inclusive Businesses: The Case of Banana Cooperatives in the Magdalena Region (Colombia)

Maestre-Matos

Lombana

Mesías

et al. 2021

International Journal of Rural Management

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“…While factory work tends to be more permanent, higher paying and more highly valued (Feintrenie et al, 2010;UNEP, 2008), most of the jobs created are in the plantation sector where job quality is usually low -often dismally low. Employees often struggle to leverage livelihood benefits from employment due to the unskilled, casual and migrant character of plantation labor; poor employment conditions; competition with other livelihood streams; and health consequences of employment (Colchester, 2011;German and Parker, 2015;Hunsberger et al, this issue;Li 2011;Macedo, 2005;World Bank, 2010).…”

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“…For those examples that can be held up as models of smallholder inclusion for the biofuel industry, the role of the state (as regulator and financier, and to a lesser extent capacity builder) seems paramount both in achieving and maintaining distributional equity. Even for those cases held up as models of what biofuels can deliver, success is patchy and its effects are highly uneven (German and Parker, 2015;McCarthy, 2010).…”

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“…Narrowly framed aims, on the other hand, open the door for positive evaluations of program effectiveness while obscuring other ways in which programs may undermine those very same aims. This may be illustrated by the variable ways in which employment and smallholder outcomes may be evaluated, and the divergent findings that emerge when adopting different metrics (Deininger et al, 2011;German and Parker 2015;Hunsberger et al, this issue;Li, 2011;McCarthy, 2010;Schoneveld et al, 2011;World Bank, 2010). If we measure success as the simple fact of jobs being created or smallholders being engaged as outgrowers, then biofuels may be viewed as a success.…”

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Sine Qua Nons of sustainable biofuels: Distilling implications of under-performance for national biofuel programs

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Biofuels have been promoted worldwide under the assumption that they can support several strategic policy goals, while mitigating associated risks. Drawing on published evidence on performance, contributing papers to this Special Section question assumptions commonly attributed to biofuels: their carbon neutrality, their positive effect on rural livelihoods, and policymakers' ability to effectively govern for sustainability. This paper takes these findings as its starting point and asks, "What next?" for countries wishing to advance biofuels as one option for the necessary divestment from fossil fuels. Deriving recommendations for national biofuel programmes from past performance is no easy task. Context, complexity, power dynamics and scaling pose significant challenges to achieving policy aims. We are nevertheless able to distil a set of sine qua nons (indispensables) for sustainable biofuel governance from the evidence and change management literatures. They are put forward not as recipes for success, but minimum conditions and "best bet" approaches requiring testing, deliberation, and refinement. Perhaps the most fundamental sine qua non is to pursue options that downscale global demand-as current levels of global energy consumption, if only in the transport sector, cannot be met by biomass-derived agrofuels in a way that meets social and environmental sustainability goals.

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“…The level of risk to smallholders can be highly dependent on the particular business model used (Cotula 2011) as well as the strength of customary claims to land, which may favour smallholders in the balance of power between contractual actors (Smalley and Corbera 2012;White et al 2012). Within the sugarcane sector as a whole, outcomes have been found to vary within categories of outgrowers, company employees and land-holder or loser, thereby challenging the model's agenda of 'shared growth' and inclusivity (German and Parker 2019). Within the literature on gender and agriculture, it is well established that gender inequalities may be exacerbated by the failure to pay attention to intrahousehold gender dynamics in contractual arrangements (Agarwal 1994(Agarwal , 1997Behrman, Meinzen-Dick, and Quixumbing 2012;FAO 2011;Schneider and Gugerty 2010), or by exploitative employment conditions in estate agriculture (Mbilinyi 1988;Smalley 2013, 52) and a global trend towards feminisation and casualisation of the workforce (Standing 1989).…”

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Gender, politics and sugarcane commercialisation in Tanzania

Sulle

Dancer

2019

The Journal of Peasant Studies

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This article explores relationships between state, corporate capital and local stakeholders in the political economy of sugarcane from a gender perspective. The findings, based on empirical research at the site of Tanzania's largest sugarcane producer pre-and post-privatisation, provide insights into the degree to which the estateoutgrower model can be regarded as 'inclusive' for women and men. Three aspects of commercial sugarcane production are analysed: land tenure, labour and leadership within canegrowers' associations. We argue that politico-economic changes in the sector post-privatisation have increased gender differentiation in sugarcane production and consolidated power in the hands of local elites.

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The social construction of “shared growth”: Zambia Sugar and the uneven terrain of social benefit

Cited by 10 publications

References 74 publications

Institutional Factors That Affect Inclusive Businesses: The Case of Banana Cooperatives in the Magdalena Region (Colombia)

Institutional Factors That Affect Inclusive Businesses: The Case of Banana Cooperatives in the Magdalena Region (Colombia)

Sine Qua Nons of sustainable biofuels: Distilling implications of under-performance for national biofuel programs

Gender, politics and sugarcane commercialisation in Tanzania

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