Empowering Smallholder Farmers in Markets: strengthening the advocacy capacities of national farmer organisations through collaborative research

Ton, Giel; Grip, K. de; Lançon, Frédéric; Onumah, Gideon; Proctor, Felicity

doi:10.1007/s12571-014-0339-3

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“…Participatory research has successfully created "farmer-centric" approaches to developing agricultural technology, for example, through the development of farmer innovation networks (Waters-Bayer et al 2007; Abrol and Gupta 2014), market-led development, participatory approaches to learning and impact assessment (Douthwaite and Hoffecker 2017;Heinemann et al 2017), and farmer-to-farmer innovations (Van Mele 2006;Kiptot and Franzel 2014;Chowdhury et al 2015). These approaches have responded to the changing role of farmer organizations (Hellin et al 2009;Ton et al 2014) and the development of more demand-driven extension services (Aker 2010;Humphries et al 2015) and are embedded in more integrated approach toward agricultural research through multi-stakeholder innovation platforms (Schut et al 2016;Douthwaite et al 2017;Pigford et al 2018). At the same time, co-design of farming system approaches has emerged (Meynard et al 2012;Berthet et al 2018) and participatory modeling and simulation approaches have made innovative contributions (Naivinit et al 2010).…”

Section: Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Citizen science breathes new life into participatory agricultural research. A review

Gevel

Etten

Deterding

2020

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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Participatory research can improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and scope of research processes, and foster social inclusion, empowerment, and sustainability. Yet despite four decades of agricultural research institutions exploring and developing methods for participatory research, it has never become mainstream in the agricultural technology development cycle. Citizen science promises an innovative approach to participation in research, using the unique facilities of new digital technologies, but its potential in agricultural research participation has not been systematically probed. To this end, we conducted a critical literature review. We found that citizen science opens up four opportunities for creatively reshaping research: (i) new possibilities for interdisciplinary collaboration, (ii) rethinking configurations of socio-computational systems, (iii) research on democratization of science more broadly, and (iv) new accountabilities. Citizen science also brings a fresh perspective on the barriers to institutionalizing participation in the agricultural sciences. Specifically, we show how citizen science can reconfigure cost-motivation-accountability combinations using digital tools, open up a larger conceptual space of experimentation, and stimulate new collaborations. With appropriate and persistent institutional support and investment, citizen science can therefore have a lasting impact on how agricultural science engages with farming communities and wider society, and more fully realize the promises of participation.

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confidence: 99%

Citizen science breathes new life into participatory agricultural research. A review

Gevel

Etten

Deterding

2020

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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“…Moreover, there is growing evidence indicating low levels of participation among smallholders in collective storage (Ton, de Grip, Lançon, Onumah, & Proctor, 2014). In Uganda, only 23% of existing capacity of certified warehouses was utilized in 2011, with a majority (90%) of the grain depositors being traders; some warehouses did not have a single farmer registered to participate (USAID-LEAD, 2012).…”

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Factors Influencing the Use of Food Storage Structures by Agrarian Communities in Northern Uganda

Owach

Bahiigwa²,

Elepu

2017

J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev.

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Food storage at the national or global level is important due to its multifunctional roles of enhancing food access, nutrition, and income security at the national, community and household levels. This study assesses the importance of food storage structures and their utilization by farmers cultivating finger millet (Eleusine coracana) and common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) in Apac and Arua districts, Northern Uganda. The study encompassed a total sample of 782 households producing finger millet and/or beans (388 of which were below and 394 above the poverty line). A binary probit regression analysis was used to identify the factors influencing the household use of improved storage structures.The findings indicated that only 22% of households used improved storage structures and that usage depended on the age of the household a * Corresponding author: Charles Owach, Food and Agriculture

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“…Table 4 shows how, at the local horizontal level, the presence of relationships with civil society organizations depend on the relational networks developed by territorial dynamizers and promoters (Ton et al, 2014), namely actors able to facilitate processes of sustainable territorial valorisation based on cultural heritage, biodiversity and origin products, through the activation of social and physical capital and resources of a territory (Belletti et al, 2022). Such networks lead to the involvement of volunteerism, the construction of territorial relations, which often allow FMs to organize cultural and knowledgesharing events (workshops, seminars, etc.)…”

Section: External Horizontal Governance and Vertical Governancementioning

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Multilevel governance in farmers’ markets: a stakeholder analysis in Tuscany

Belletti,

Torres Salcido,

Scarpellini

et al. 2024

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Farmers’ Markets (FMs) have gained relevance in recent years as increasingly acknowledged to be critical to turn to more equitable food systems, easing agroecological transition, and preserving biocultural heritage. However, the issue of the forms of social and institutional coordination needed to create, organize, manage and promote FMs is a recent topic in the literature, and their governance is still poorly considered. Based on a set of case studies in Tuscany, Italy, this paper intends to contribute to filling this gap by analysing the forms of governance and the role of different stakeholders. The hypothesis is that FMs are social constructions that respond to processes of social and institutional innovation through direct exchanges between producers, consumers and other stakeholders, articulated at both local and non-local level. The aim of the paper is to explore the interactions between stakeholders and the corresponding forms of multi-level governance that emerge. The method for testing the hypotheses is qualitative, through semi-structured interviews to FMs managers and conversations with producers and other stakeholders, conducted between May and August 2022 in Tuscany. The research was complemented by consultation of indirect sources, such as FMs websites and social networks. The results are summarized in the elaboration of a three-dimensional and territorially embedded governance model. The first dimension refers to the management of internal relations between stakeholders within the FM. The second corresponds to the activation of dialogue, negotiation, and agreement with the municipality and other local authorities, and with local farmers’ unions. The third type corresponds to vertical flows between the FMs and extraterritorial bodies, i.e., regional government, regional and national farmers’ unions and other stakeholder associations. It is important to note that at FMs level, processes of hybridization between the different types of governance are established. The article contributes to the analysis of FMs as economic and social constructions and may be useful for establishing comparative frameworks around institutional and collective action dimensions, multi-actor and multilevel studies of governance.

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Empowering Smallholder Farmers in Markets: strengthening the advocacy capacities of national farmer organisations through collaborative research

Cited by 11 publications

References 8 publications

Citizen science breathes new life into participatory agricultural research. A review

Citizen science breathes new life into participatory agricultural research. A review

Factors Influencing the Use of Food Storage Structures by Agrarian Communities in Northern Uganda

Multilevel governance in farmers’ markets: a stakeholder analysis in Tuscany

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