Mapping Self-Help Groups (SHGs) as alternatives to capitalist development: an ethnographic enquiry from India

Saha, Atrayee; Kasi, Eswarappa

doi:10.1007/s11625-022-01171-6

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“…As noted, the pluriverse has a direct resonance with alternatives to development. Therefore, this idea is becoming increasingly important in the post-development literature where activists and scholars are exploring and studying concrete alternatives to development such as Zapatismo in South Mexico, Buen Vivir in Bolivia and Ecuador, and the Self-Help Groups in rural India (Chuji et al 2019 ; Leyva-Solano 2019 ; Saha and Kasi 2022 , this issue), most of which are immersed in socio-political projects of struggle and social and ecological justice in the global South (Baronnet and Stahler-Sholk 2019 ; Lang 2022 , this issue; Zibechi 2012 ). We can assume that the construction of any alternative to development implies a radical rupture with the dominant capitalist rationality by organizing society in a profoundly different way.…”

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Grassroots innovation for the pluriverse: evidence from Zapatismo and autonomous Zapatista education

Maldonado-Villalpando

Paneque-Gálvez

Demaria

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Sustain Sci

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The social and environmental failure of successive Western development models imposed on the global South has led local communities to pursue alternatives to development. Such alternatives seek radical societal transformations that require the production of new knowledge, practices, technologies, and institutions that are effective to achieve more just and sustainable societies. We may think of such a production as innovation driven by social movements, organizations, collectives, indigenous peoples, and local communities. Innovation that is driven by such grassroots groups has been theorized in the academic literature as “grassroots innovation”. However, research on alternatives to development has rarely examined innovation using grassroots innovation as an analytical framework. Here, we assess how grassroots innovation may contribute to building alternatives to development using Zapatismo in Chiapas (Mexico) as a case study. We focus on grassroots innovation in autonomous Zapatista education because this alternative to formal education plays a vital role in knowledge generation and the production of new social practices within Zapatista communities, which underpin the radical societal transformation being built by Zapatismo. We reviewed the academic literature on grassroots innovation as well as gray literature and audiovisual media on Zapatismo and autonomous Zapatista education. We also conducted ethnographic fieldwork in a Zapatista community and its school. We found innovative educational, pedagogical, and teaching–learning practices based on the (re)production of knowledge and learning, which are not limited to the classroom but linked to all the activities of Zapatistas. Our findings suggest that innovation self-realized by Zapatistas plays a key role on the everyday construction of Zapatismo. Therefore, we argue that a specific theoretical framework of grassroots innovation for the pluriverse, based on empirical work carried out in different alternatives to development, is an urgent task that will contribute to a better understanding of how such alternatives grassroots groups imagine, design, and build, particularly across the global South.

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Grassroots innovation for the pluriverse: evidence from Zapatismo and autonomous Zapatista education

Maldonado-Villalpando

Paneque-Gálvez

Demaria

et al. 2022

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“…Facilitating credit access and lending for small farms is essential for improving farmer performance, regardless of gender, land acreage, or specialization (Khanal & Omobitan, 2020). Women’s economies are positively impacted by agricultural production in rural areas of developing countries (Saha & Kasi, 2022). However, Big Ag is closely tied to Big Finance, excluding other peripheral actors in the agriculture finance system, such as regional banks (Ashwood et al, 2022).…”

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“…Furthermore, existing studies attest that a rise in credit, in FDI net inflows, and innovation techniques improve agricultural production, especially cereal production (Chinseu et al, 2022; Ngong, Onyejiaku et al, 2022; Sikandar et al, 2021). Therefore, increasing agricultural financing may improve agricultural production, socio-economic development, and sustain financial system in Africa (Asaleye et al, 2020; Saha & Kasi, 2022).…”

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The Effects of the Interactions Between Agro-Production, Economic, and Financial Development on Bank Sustainability

Zheng

Jean-Petit

2023

SAGE Open

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The Sub-Saharan African region encounters a deficiency in agricultural financing, which can be attributed to its constraints in accessing international investments in general and the low engagement of bank risk-taking in particular. This situation leads to underproduction, which exacerbates poverty and malnutrition in the region. Thus, this study investigates the impact of the interaction effects between agricultural production, economic development (ED), and financial development (FD via FDI and DC) on bank stability ratios across 40 countries, encompassing 350 operational banks, during the period covering 2010 to 2019. The research employs the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) technique and verifies its consistency with Two-Stage Least Squares (2SLS) and the Z-Score Approach. The results highlight two findings: first, the interaction effects between economic development, agricultural production, and financial development factors have significantly greater impacts on bank sustainability than their individual effects without interactions. Secondly, these interaction effects sustain significantly bank stability in two ways: on the one hand, they increase bank returns (through both ROE and ROA), while on the other hand, they reduce bank riskiness (via negative effects on NPL and positive effects on LLR). The study concludes that those interaction effects significantly sustain the stability of the African banking system. The SS African states (via their central banks) should promote farming finance services and enforce a minimum ratio of farming loans for each commercial bank’s credit portfolio as a solution to the investment deficiency in the sector. Hence, this can solve food production level issues, ensure food security, and effectively sustain both the banking system and real economic development.

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“…In Ghana, rural bank credit access permitted technical efficiency and increased cassava production considerably more than the smallholder farmers without credit access (Missiame et al, 2021). An association between agricultural production and women's economies is positively correlated in rural areas of developing countries where marginalized women made self-helping groups to finance their crops (Saha & Kasi, 2022). One study showed that the allocation of a loan-loss reserve for insurance companies insuring against agro-climatic change factors improved agricultural production performance due to the effectiveness of relatively low rates of interest (Tleubayev et al, 2022).…”

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The impact of African agriculture production on bank stability through bank risk and profit

Jean-Petit¹,

Zheng²

2022

IJRBS

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The African farming sector suffers from insufficient finance. Climate changes and socio-political issues hold down the required production level while food on the continent is still inadequate, with more vulnerable people on the one side. On the other side, credit institutions need reasons and guarantees to raise their risk-taking level (financial benefits). Then, this study tries to conciliate those two sides with new shreds of evidence by demonstrating the short and long-run effects of agricultural production on bank sustainability in 40 Sub-Saharan African countries. The study used different agro-production factors (Food and Cereal production factors), bank stability proxies (Liquidity Ratio, NPLs, LLRs), and bank profitability proxies (ROA and ROE). The GMM, DFE, and FMOLS models were used for short (with the 2010-2019 dataset) and long-run analysis (with the 1970-2018 dataset). The results demonstrated that agricultural production increases bank stability and profitability but reduces bank risks. The study concludes that farming finance increases agro-production and stabilizes banks (win-win). Governments, via central banks, should encourage commercial banks to increase bank risk-taking levels to sustain their banking system, increase farming production, and improve food security.

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Mapping Self-Help Groups (SHGs) as alternatives to capitalist development: an ethnographic enquiry from India

Cited by 8 publications

References 18 publications

Grassroots innovation for the pluriverse: evidence from Zapatismo and autonomous Zapatista education

Grassroots innovation for the pluriverse: evidence from Zapatismo and autonomous Zapatista education

The Effects of the Interactions Between Agro-Production, Economic, and Financial Development on Bank Sustainability

The impact of African agriculture production on bank stability through bank risk and profit

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