Integrating Poverty and Environmental Concerns into Value‐Chain Analysis: A Strategic Framework and Practical Guide

Riisgaard, Lone; Bolwig, Simon; Ponte, Stefano; Toit, Andries du; Halberg, Niels; Matose, F.

doi:10.1111/j.1467-7679.2010.00481.x

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“…But aligning private product, process and functional upgrading practices of producers, like fishers, to meet what are ostensibly public social and environmental goals, requires intervention from market coordinating and/or 'extra transactional' regulatory actors like the state and NGOs (Riisgaard et al 2010;Neilson 2014;Gereffi and Lee 2016). By focusing on the conditions and rules that these actors set for producers we can not only identify how incentives for producers are aligned with public goals, but also identify modes of coordination and interaction in and through value chains that can support and facilitate this alignment.…”

Section: Governing Upgrading In Global Value Chainsmentioning

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Co-governance and upgrading in the South African small-scale fisheries value chain

2017

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This paper identifies new forms of public-private modes of governance for achieving collective forms of value chain upgrading in South African small-scale fisheries. Our analysis focuses on the different stages of implementing the 2012 small-scale fisheries policy designed to promote collective action and enable inter alia smallscale rock lobster fishers to improve rights allocation and the terms of their inclusion in export value chains. The results indicate that collective action by fishers is imperative to achieve upgrading by small-scale fishers in value chains, and that constructive and well defined relations with private as well as extra-transactional actors, like government and NGOs, are essential to the success of collective action as an upgrading strategy. By combining insights from interactive governance and global value chain governance we propose a new analytical framework that goes beyond upgrading alone to better understand the influences of collective action and the role of these extra-transactional actors in the development of small-scale fisheries.

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Co-governance and upgrading in the South African small-scale fisheries value chain

2017

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“…Value chain analysis can analyse values and value addition within the chain, the nature of power relations and power distributions based on governance of the supply chain, and potential points of entry or exclusion (especially in the case of small farmers), as well as the distribution of revenues and benefits among the actors (Walters and Lancaster 2000;Doland and Humphery 2004;Wood 2001). In addition, value chain analysis allows us to integrate the gendered (e.g., Barrientos et al 2003), nutrition (e.g., Fan and Pandya-Lorch 2012), welfare, poverty, inequality and environmental concerns (e.g., Bolwig et al 2010;Kaplinsky 2000;Riisgaard et al 2010;Gereffi et al 2001;Trifković 2014).…”

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Integrated Rice-Fish Farming System in Bangladesh: An Ex-ante Value Chain Evaluation Framework

Islam

2016

Technological and Institutional Innovations for Marginalized Smallholders in Agricultural Development

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Rice and fish are an important source of food and nutrition security, income, and livelihood options for many people in Bangladesh. Integrated rice-fish farming systems are a potential option which respond to scarce land and water resources but their potential has not been fully explored in the country. Thus, this study assesses the ex-ante socio-economic competitive potential of this technology, as well as the crucial factors for its widespread adoption and diffusion. To assess the true performance of an activity, we take into account its upstream and downstream actors who are directly or indirectly related to that activity. The overall quantitative results from gross margin, partial budgeting and gendered employment analyses show positive benefits due to the introduction of rice-fish technology instead of rice monoculture in Bangladesh.

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“…The action research methodology was designed to integrate economic, environmental, and social factors in the value chain analysis, while emphasizing strategic and political approaches to ensuring sustained improvements for disadvantaged groups [12]. Action research was used as it takes place in real-world situations and is aimed at solving specific problems and involves the target group and stakeholders as co-researchers [12].…”

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“…Action research was used as it takes place in real-world situations and is aimed at solving specific problems and involves the target group and stakeholders as co-researchers [12]. …”

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Action Research into a Flood Resilient Value Chain – Biochar-Based Organic Fertilizer Doubles Productivity of Pea in Udayapur, Nepal

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Pandit²

2017

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Green growth and flood resilient value chain development have been foremost in the minds of vegetable growers in six villages of Udayapur District when they agreed to join pea field trials for a self-made biochar based organic fertilizer. Like so many Nepalese women and men who depend on farming for their livelihoods their top concern was getting high crop yields while lowering their input costs. Farmers of six villages (240 migrant workers' families) are now showing how boosting agriculture productivity and saving costs at the farm level can go hand in hand with national climate change strategies particularly in replacing chemical fertilizers in tropical soils of Nepal, an Action Research project result revealed. The results demonstrated that the biochar based organic fertilizer has enhanced the nutrient efficiency by increasing yields of at least four vegetable crops (peas, bottle gourd, cauliflower, and tomato) in the study area, and this technology was found more resilient to adverse climate (flood and drought) conditions. The trials have further investigated that the combination of biochar and cow urine, a source of nutrients readily available to farmers, have increased fresh pea yields double folds from (3 to 7) t · ha −1 in off season (end of Dec.to Mar.). With this learning, a flood resilient pea value chain was developed, where farmers could get increase in income from 9.92 % (traditional value chain) to 44.32 % (upgraded value chain). Further benefits of biochar based organic fertilizer have been recorded with increase of soil organic matter content in the root zone of crops and soil moisture content.

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Integrating Poverty and Environmental Concerns into Value‐Chain Analysis: A Strategic Framework and Practical Guide

Cited by 146 publications

References 7 publications

Co-governance and upgrading in the South African small-scale fisheries value chain

Co-governance and upgrading in the South African small-scale fisheries value chain

Integrated Rice-Fish Farming System in Bangladesh: An Ex-ante Value Chain Evaluation Framework

Action Research into a Flood Resilient Value Chain – Biochar-Based Organic Fertilizer Doubles Productivity of Pea in Udayapur, Nepal

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