Partnerships blending institutional logics for inclusive global and regional food value chains in Ghana; with what smallholder effect?
We witness a promotion of hybrid partnerships, where actors with different competences and resources collaborate for smallholder inclusive value chain development. To better understand the functioning of these partnerships, we used institutional theory and studied the context of a global and emergin...
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| author | Paassen, Annemarie van Osei-Amponsah, Charity Klerkx, Laurens Mierlo, B. van Essegbey, G. O. |
| author_browse | Essegbey, G. O. Klerkx, Laurens Mierlo, B. van Osei-Amponsah, Charity Paassen, Annemarie van |
| author_facet | Paassen, Annemarie van Osei-Amponsah, Charity Klerkx, Laurens Mierlo, B. van Essegbey, G. O. |
| author_sort | Paassen, Annemarie van |
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| description | We witness a promotion of hybrid partnerships, where actors with different competences and resources collaborate for smallholder inclusive value chain development. To better understand the functioning of these partnerships, we used institutional theory and studied the context of a global and emerging regional food value chains in Ghana, the blending of logics by key actors in Innovation Platforms and Public Private Partnerships, and their effect on value chain relations of smallholder farmers. In the global value chain of cocoa, partnerships adhered to ‘green revolution’ and ‘free-market’ logics, and provided all farmers material support. In the more informally organised regional food sector, local executing partners selectively coupled their logics with those of poor smallholders, who rely on low-input agriculture and solidarity logics to make ends meet. This improved the position and transaction costs of smallholders to participate in the value chain. Hence, it is more likely for partnerships to create smallholder inclusive governance in informally organised regional food value chains, than highly structured global value chains controlled by international buyers. To gain insight in the variety of political effects this triggers in different social–historical shaped farmer communities, households and actors, we recommend complementary local research from a critical institutional perspective. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1199902025-10-26T12:53:12Z Partnerships blending institutional logics for inclusive global and regional food value chains in Ghana; with what smallholder effect? Paassen, Annemarie van Osei-Amponsah, Charity Klerkx, Laurens Mierlo, B. van Essegbey, G. O. value chains smallholders partnerships innovation platforms public-private partnerships governance cocoa development We witness a promotion of hybrid partnerships, where actors with different competences and resources collaborate for smallholder inclusive value chain development. To better understand the functioning of these partnerships, we used institutional theory and studied the context of a global and emerging regional food value chains in Ghana, the blending of logics by key actors in Innovation Platforms and Public Private Partnerships, and their effect on value chain relations of smallholder farmers. In the global value chain of cocoa, partnerships adhered to ‘green revolution’ and ‘free-market’ logics, and provided all farmers material support. In the more informally organised regional food sector, local executing partners selectively coupled their logics with those of poor smallholders, who rely on low-input agriculture and solidarity logics to make ends meet. This improved the position and transaction costs of smallholders to participate in the value chain. Hence, it is more likely for partnerships to create smallholder inclusive governance in informally organised regional food value chains, than highly structured global value chains controlled by international buyers. To gain insight in the variety of political effects this triggers in different social–historical shaped farmer communities, households and actors, we recommend complementary local research from a critical institutional perspective. 2022-10 2022-06-30T22:02:46Z 2022-06-30T22:02:46Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/119990 en Open Access Springer van Paassen, A.; Osei-Amponsah, Charity; Klerkx, L.; van Mierlo, B.; Essegbey, G. O. 2022. Partnerships blending institutional logics for inclusive global and regional food value chains in Ghana; with what smallholder effect?. European Journal of Development Research, 34(5):2179-2203. (Special issue: Policies for Inclusive Development in Sub-Saharan Africa) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-022-00530-4] |
| spellingShingle | value chains smallholders partnerships innovation platforms public-private partnerships governance cocoa development Paassen, Annemarie van Osei-Amponsah, Charity Klerkx, Laurens Mierlo, B. van Essegbey, G. O. Partnerships blending institutional logics for inclusive global and regional food value chains in Ghana; with what smallholder effect? |
| title | Partnerships blending institutional logics for inclusive global and regional food value chains in Ghana; with what smallholder effect? |
| title_full | Partnerships blending institutional logics for inclusive global and regional food value chains in Ghana; with what smallholder effect? |
| title_fullStr | Partnerships blending institutional logics for inclusive global and regional food value chains in Ghana; with what smallholder effect? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Partnerships blending institutional logics for inclusive global and regional food value chains in Ghana; with what smallholder effect? |
| title_short | Partnerships blending institutional logics for inclusive global and regional food value chains in Ghana; with what smallholder effect? |
| title_sort | partnerships blending institutional logics for inclusive global and regional food value chains in ghana with what smallholder effect |
| topic | value chains smallholders partnerships innovation platforms public-private partnerships governance cocoa development |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/119990 |
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