Sustainable intensification of agricultural systems in the Central African Highlands: The need for institutional innovation

Schut, Marc; Asten, Piet J.A. van; Okafor, Chris; Hicintuka, Cyrille; Mapatano, Sylvain; Nabahungu, Nsharwasi Léon; Kagabo, Désiré M.; Muchunguzi, Perez; Njukwe, Emmanuel; Dontsop-Nguezet, Paul M.; Sartas, Murat; Vanlauwe, Bernard

doi:10.1016/j.agsy.2016.03.005

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“…According to Schut and colleagues [160], institutional innovations which include access to credit, inputs and markets, are required to address about 70% of constraints in the sustainable intensification in the Central Highlands of Africa. The study in West Africa also indicated the need for strengthening innovative systems in enabling institutions in order to boost productivity of smallholder farmers [161].…”

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Raising Crop Productivity in Africa through Intensification

Tadele

2017

Agronomy

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Raising Crop Productivity in Africa through Intensification

Tadele

2017

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“…Finished agricultural products and raw materials for production are all sold on two retailing platforms of Ali, namely, T-Mall and Rural Taobao, constructing a closed loop. Farmers usually face poor access to markets, and many of them sell their products on the local free market [50]. To help farmers sell products and accelerate reproduction, Ali applies agricultural SCF (ASCF) by cooperating with large agricultural processors.…”

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Innovative Financial Approach for Agricultural Sustainability: A Case Study of Alibaba

Zhou

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2018

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Sustainability and agricultural finance are two important issues attracting attention from industry and academia. This research adopts an in-depth case study methodology to investigate the agricultural finance initiatives of Alibaba Group, and explores how the agricultural finance practices of an e-commerce platform facilitate its sustainability goal. A reference framework is proposed to prove the adoption of agricultural finance. The influence of three moderating variables, namely, IT support, financial attractiveness, and cooperation with other entities, is analyzed. We find that advanced IT support and financial attractiveness are two indispensable enablers for agricultural finance initiatives, and collaboration with other entities is necessary in adopting agricultural supply chain finance.

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“…For example, a detailed examination of agricultural systems in the Central Africa Highlands found that constraints to SI were mainly economic and institutional in nature, caused by the absence, or poor functioning of, institutions such as policies and markets, limited capabilities and financial resources, and ineffective interaction and collaboration between stakeholders (Schut et al 2016). The authors found that addressing these constraints would require short-and middle-term institutional innovations, combined with middle-to long-term Natural Resource Management (NRM) innovations across farm and national levels.…”

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‘Triple wins’ or ‘triple faults’? Analysing the equity implications of policy discourses on climate-smart agriculture (CSA)

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The Journal of Peasant Studies

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This paper analyses contrasting discourses of 'climate-smart agriculture' (CSA) for their implications on control over and access to changing resources in agriculture. One of the principal areas of contestation around CSA relates to equity, including who wins and who loses, who is able to participate, and whose knowledge and perspectives count in the process. Yet to date, the equity implications of CSA remain an under-researched area. We apply an equity framework centred on procedure, distribution and recognition, to four different discourses. Depending on which discourses are mobilised, the analysis helps to illuminate: (1) how CSA may transfer the burden of responsibility for climate change mitigation to marginalised producers and resource managers (distributive equity); (2) how CSA discourses generally fail to confront entrenched power relations that may constrain or block the emergence of more 'propoor' forms of agricultural development, adaptation to climate change, or carbon sequestration and storage (procedural equity); (3) how CSA discourses can have tangible implications for the bargaining power of the poorest and most vulnerable groups (recognition). The paper contributes to work showing the need for deeper acknowledgement of the political nature of the transformations necessary to address the challenges caused by a changing climate for the agricultural sector.

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Sustainable intensification of agricultural systems in the Central African Highlands: The need for institutional innovation

Cited by 116 publications

References 47 publications

Raising Crop Productivity in Africa through Intensification

Raising Crop Productivity in Africa through Intensification

Innovative Financial Approach for Agricultural Sustainability: A Case Study of Alibaba

‘Triple wins’ or ‘triple faults’? Analysing the equity implications of policy discourses on climate-smart agriculture (CSA)

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