Challenges to groundnut value chain development: Lessons from an (attempted) experiment in Ghana
In developing countries, value chains for many crops are underdeveloped, leading to low producer prices and poor quality produce. Value chain research using secondary data is made difficult by selection problems, whereas experimental research is logistically very difficult and lacks external validit...
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| author | Posey, Sean Magnan, Nicholas McCullough, Ellen B. Hoffmann, Vivian Opoku, Nelson Alidu, Abdul-Hafiz |
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| description | In developing countries, value chains for many crops are underdeveloped, leading to low producer prices and poor quality produce. Value chain research using secondary data is made difficult by selection problems, whereas experimental research is logistically very difficult and lacks external validity. With the intention of conducting a field experiment, we piloted an intervention connecting smallholder groundnut farmers in Ghana to a premium groundnut processor through aggregators. While we successfully delivered inputs and training to farmers, we failed in our attempts to link aggregators with downstream processors over two growing seasons. In this paper, we situate the challenges we faced in the broader literature on value chains and identify three problems that prevented us from establishing a value chain for high quality groundnuts: uncertainty, cash constraints, and trust. To help inform future research on this topic, we propose three specific interventions that could mitigate these problems. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1407312025-10-26T12:51:33Z Challenges to groundnut value chain development: Lessons from an (attempted) experiment in Ghana Posey, Sean Magnan, Nicholas McCullough, Ellen B. Hoffmann, Vivian Opoku, Nelson Alidu, Abdul-Hafiz crops developing countries groundnuts value chains In developing countries, value chains for many crops are underdeveloped, leading to low producer prices and poor quality produce. Value chain research using secondary data is made difficult by selection problems, whereas experimental research is logistically very difficult and lacks external validity. With the intention of conducting a field experiment, we piloted an intervention connecting smallholder groundnut farmers in Ghana to a premium groundnut processor through aggregators. While we successfully delivered inputs and training to farmers, we failed in our attempts to link aggregators with downstream processors over two growing seasons. In this paper, we situate the challenges we faced in the broader literature on value chains and identify three problems that prevented us from establishing a value chain for high quality groundnuts: uncertainty, cash constraints, and trust. To help inform future research on this topic, we propose three specific interventions that could mitigate these problems. 2024-10 2024-04-02T20:28:52Z 2024-04-02T20:28:52Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/140731 en Open Access Informa UK Limited Posey, Sean; Magnan, Nicholas; McCullough, Ellen B.; Hoffman, Vivian; Opoku, Nelson; and Alidu, Abdul-Hafiz. Challenges to groundnut value chain development: Lessons from an (attempted) experiment in Ghana. Journal of Development Effectiveness 16(4): 468-484. https://doi.org/10.1080/19439342.2024.2319657 |
| spellingShingle | crops developing countries groundnuts value chains Posey, Sean Magnan, Nicholas McCullough, Ellen B. Hoffmann, Vivian Opoku, Nelson Alidu, Abdul-Hafiz Challenges to groundnut value chain development: Lessons from an (attempted) experiment in Ghana |
| title | Challenges to groundnut value chain development: Lessons from an (attempted) experiment in Ghana |
| title_full | Challenges to groundnut value chain development: Lessons from an (attempted) experiment in Ghana |
| title_fullStr | Challenges to groundnut value chain development: Lessons from an (attempted) experiment in Ghana |
| title_full_unstemmed | Challenges to groundnut value chain development: Lessons from an (attempted) experiment in Ghana |
| title_short | Challenges to groundnut value chain development: Lessons from an (attempted) experiment in Ghana |
| title_sort | challenges to groundnut value chain development lessons from an attempted experiment in ghana |
| topic | crops developing countries groundnuts value chains |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/140731 |
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