Agricultural strategy development in West Africa: The false promise of participation?
Participatory approaches are an increasingly prominent technique for designing agricultural strategies within Sub-Saharan Africa. However, such approaches are frequently criticized for either not involving enough stakeholders or limiting the scope of their participation. By analyzing the role of sta...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
2008
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| author | Resnick, Danielle Birner, Regina |
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| description | Participatory approaches are an increasingly prominent technique for designing agricultural strategies within Sub-Saharan Africa. However, such approaches are frequently criticized for either not involving enough stakeholders or limiting the scope of their participation. By analyzing the role of stakeholder participation in the formulation of agricultural and rural development strategies in West Africa, this paper finds that a lack of broad-based participation in these strategies was not a major problem. Rather, the real challenge lies in transforming the outcomes of participatory processes into policies that can be feasibly implemented. The paper highlights why an emphasis on participatory processes can sometimes result in disappointment among stakeholders and discusses a range of measures to help overcome this dilemma. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1613052025-11-06T06:11:32Z Agricultural strategy development in West Africa: The false promise of participation? Resnick, Danielle Birner, Regina agricultural development rural development strategies policy analysis participation democracy governance Participatory approaches are an increasingly prominent technique for designing agricultural strategies within Sub-Saharan Africa. However, such approaches are frequently criticized for either not involving enough stakeholders or limiting the scope of their participation. By analyzing the role of stakeholder participation in the formulation of agricultural and rural development strategies in West Africa, this paper finds that a lack of broad-based participation in these strategies was not a major problem. Rather, the real challenge lies in transforming the outcomes of participatory processes into policies that can be feasibly implemented. The paper highlights why an emphasis on participatory processes can sometimes result in disappointment among stakeholders and discusses a range of measures to help overcome this dilemma. 2008 2024-11-21T09:54:47Z 2024-11-21T09:54:47Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161305 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Resnick, Danielle; Birner, Regina. 2008. Agricultural strategy development in West Africa. IFPRI Discussion Paper 844. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161305 |
| spellingShingle | agricultural development rural development strategies policy analysis participation democracy governance Resnick, Danielle Birner, Regina Agricultural strategy development in West Africa: The false promise of participation? |
| title | Agricultural strategy development in West Africa: The false promise of participation? |
| title_full | Agricultural strategy development in West Africa: The false promise of participation? |
| title_fullStr | Agricultural strategy development in West Africa: The false promise of participation? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Agricultural strategy development in West Africa: The false promise of participation? |
| title_short | Agricultural strategy development in West Africa: The false promise of participation? |
| title_sort | agricultural strategy development in west africa the false promise of participation |
| topic | agricultural development rural development strategies policy analysis participation democracy governance |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161305 |
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