Benefits, challenges, and enabling conditions of collective action to promote sustainable production and marketing of products from Africa's dry forests

Collective action has been identified, by governments and nongovernmental organizations, as a mechanism to improve smallholder farmers' bargaining power and access to input and output markets. In many developing countries, supporting collective action has and continues to be an important policy inst...

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Autores principales: Paumgarten, F., Kassa, H., Zida, M., Moeliono, M.
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Wiley 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/95720
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Kassa, H.
Zida, M.
Moeliono, M.
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description Collective action has been identified, by governments and nongovernmental organizations, as a mechanism to improve smallholder farmers' bargaining power and access to input and output markets. In many developing countries, supporting collective action has and continues to be an important policy instrument. However, in the collection and marketing of forest products, recognition of and support for producer organizations, is limited. Data, from focus group discussions, key informant interviews, and an analysis of formal producer organizations' functioning and organizational aspects, were used to examine the motives, benefits, challenges, and enabling conditions of collective action in promoting the sustainable production and marketing of shea, frankincense, and honey from dry forests in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, and Zambia, respectively. Lessons and key recommendations, including those related to policy, are presented on how collective action through formal producer organizations could be assisted to promote responsible forest products collection and marketing practices that benefit small‐scale producers in Africa's dry forests.
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spelling CGSpace957202025-06-17T08:23:12Z Benefits, challenges, and enabling conditions of collective action to promote sustainable production and marketing of products from Africa's dry forests Paumgarten, F. Kassa, H. Zida, M. Moeliono, M. dry forests forest products markets production public administration Collective action has been identified, by governments and nongovernmental organizations, as a mechanism to improve smallholder farmers' bargaining power and access to input and output markets. In many developing countries, supporting collective action has and continues to be an important policy instrument. However, in the collection and marketing of forest products, recognition of and support for producer organizations, is limited. Data, from focus group discussions, key informant interviews, and an analysis of formal producer organizations' functioning and organizational aspects, were used to examine the motives, benefits, challenges, and enabling conditions of collective action in promoting the sustainable production and marketing of shea, frankincense, and honey from dry forests in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, and Zambia, respectively. Lessons and key recommendations, including those related to policy, are presented on how collective action through formal producer organizations could be assisted to promote responsible forest products collection and marketing practices that benefit small‐scale producers in Africa's dry forests. 2012-03 2018-07-03T11:03:29Z 2018-07-03T11:03:29Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/95720 en Limited Access Wiley Paumgarten, F., Kassa, H., Zida, M., Moeliono, M. . 2012. Benefits, challenges, and enabling conditions of collective action to promote sustainable production and marketing of products from Africa's dry forests Review of Policy Research, 29 (2) : 229-250. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-1338.2011.00549.x
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public administration
Paumgarten, F.
Kassa, H.
Zida, M.
Moeliono, M.
Benefits, challenges, and enabling conditions of collective action to promote sustainable production and marketing of products from Africa's dry forests
title Benefits, challenges, and enabling conditions of collective action to promote sustainable production and marketing of products from Africa's dry forests
title_full Benefits, challenges, and enabling conditions of collective action to promote sustainable production and marketing of products from Africa's dry forests
title_fullStr Benefits, challenges, and enabling conditions of collective action to promote sustainable production and marketing of products from Africa's dry forests
title_full_unstemmed Benefits, challenges, and enabling conditions of collective action to promote sustainable production and marketing of products from Africa's dry forests
title_short Benefits, challenges, and enabling conditions of collective action to promote sustainable production and marketing of products from Africa's dry forests
title_sort benefits challenges and enabling conditions of collective action to promote sustainable production and marketing of products from africa s dry forests
topic dry forests
forest products
markets
production
public administration
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/95720
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