The State of Family Farms in the World

Graeub, Benjamin E.; Chappell, M. Jahi; Wittman, Hannah; Ledermann, Samuel T.; Kerr, Rachel Bezner; Gemmill-Herren, Barbara

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.05.012

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“…First, groups of local suppliers (usually not organized) provide coffee beans for small farmers. Second are the producers, who are often small local farmers and family business owners; they number an estimated 25 million people [54] and are primarily responsible for the extraction of 70% of coffee beans globally [55] and for the quality of the finished product. The third group of actors are first-and second-level traders, who bargain directly with the local farmers.…”

Section: The Research Context: Coffee Supply Chain and Low-power Stakmentioning

confidence: 99%

Turning Farmers into Business Partners through Value Co-Creation Projects. Insights from the Coffee Supply Chain

Candelo¹,

Casalegno²,

Civera³

et al. 2018

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This study examines the empowerment of low-power, vulnerable stakeholders of global, complex supply chains as one effective strategy to increase value co-creation and to moderate the vulnerabilities that threaten supply chain resilience. Previous scholars have indicated the necessity of investigating the concept of value co-creation further by including various stakeholder perspectives and suggesting systems of evaluation. This research thus focuses on low-power smallholder farmers within the coffee supply chain by qualitatively evaluating the effectiveness of value co-creation projects. The study also analyzes the extent of development and the nature of empowerment initiatives designed conjointly by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and coffee roasters that are addressed to farmers. The mixed qualitative methodology includes a literature review, interviews, focus groups, and content analysis of 20 value co-creation projects conducted in various developing and emerging coffee-producing countries. The research proposes a theoretical framework employed to conduct focus groups with Brazilian coffee farmers. This framework empirically demonstrates that these farmers are in the process of becoming business partners of the coffee supply chain thanks to various empowerment initiatives, common to most of the analyzed projects, that appear to moderate specific vulnerabilities of the coffee supply chain and therefore benefit supply chain resilience.

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Section: The Research Context: Coffee Supply Chain and Low-power Stakmentioning

confidence: 99%

Turning Farmers into Business Partners through Value Co-Creation Projects. Insights from the Coffee Supply Chain

Candelo¹,

Casalegno²,

Civera³

et al. 2018

Sustainability

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“…Despite increasing concentration in global food supply chains, it is widely documented that smallholder farms are essential for providing food and nutrients in low-income and middle-income countries where they contribute decisively to the agricultural economy [71,72]. It is estimated that out of 570 million smallholder farms worldwide, some 470 million are found in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia [73] where they provide over 70 per cent of food calories for people [74].…”

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“…This is partly due to the fact that smallholder livelihoods are diverse and good at producing a variety of nutrients [71]. Notably, their high diversity calls for context-specific support structures [72] especially since most mainstream agricultural intensification practices may cause agricultural diversity loss [71].…”

Section: Defining Small-scale Farming: Complex Diverse and Genderedmentioning

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What about Gender in Climate Change? Twelve Feminist Lessons from Development

Jerneck

2018

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Adaptation and mitigation are two key responses to climate change. In the global South they prompt many questions: what is the direction and degree of change needed? How can new climate change policies be aligned with existing development initiatives? How are core social relations such as gender understood and prioritized in relation to technical and other solutions? In search of synergies between adaptation, development and mitigation, this article asks a pertinent question for sub-Saharan small-scale agriculture in particular: what can adaptation and mitigation learn from development debates on social goal setting, institutional change and gender equality? From the perspective of sustainability science and feminist literature, three main findings emerge. First, as regards social goal setting, adaptation and mitigation should, like development, support the escape out of poverty, ill-health and food-insecurity. Second, as regards institutions, adaptation and mitigation should address how gender regulates access to, use of and control over resources in terms of labor, land and strategic decision-making power. Third, as regards gender equality, adaptation and mitigation should learn from how development in theory and practice has addressed gender, women, nature and the environment. At its core, the analysis contributes twelve salient themes that can significantly inform adaptation and mitigation in research, policy and practice, thus serving as inspiration for a critical debate on much needed synergetic trajectories.

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“…Most of the regions categorized as 'water scarce' lie in the semi-and arid tropics. It is also in these regions that approximately 70% of the population depends on agriculture for their food and livelihood [2,3]. The prevalence of food and nutritional insecurity in semi-and arid tropics also remains high.…”

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Expounding the Value of Grain Legumes in the Semi- and Arid Tropics

2017

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Approximately 70% of the population in the semi-and arid tropics reside in rural areas and depend on agriculture for their livelihood. Crop production is primarily focused on a few starchy staple crops. While this can ensure adequate calories, it inadvertently neglects the need for dietary diversity. Consequently, food and nutritional insecurity remains prevalent in the semi-and arid tropics. We reviewed the legume value chain with the aim to identify opportunities and challenges to unlocking their value and promoting them in the tropics. Several grain legumes are rich in proteins and micronutrients. They also possess adaptability to marginal environmental conditions such as drought and low input systems which typify rural landscapes. Adaptability to abiotic stresses such as drought makes them key to agriculture in areas that will receive less rainfall in the future. However, this potential was currently not being realized due to a range of challenges. Aspects related to their seed systems, production, post-harvest handling and marketing remain relatively under-researched. This was especially true for minor legumes. There is a need for transdisciplinary research which will address the entire value chain, as has been done for major starchy crops. This could also unlock significant economic opportunities for marginalized groups such as women. This will unlock their value and allow them to contribute meaningfully to food and nutrition security as well as sustainable and resilient cropping systems.

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The State of Family Farms in the World

Cited by 382 publications

References 34 publications

Turning Farmers into Business Partners through Value Co-Creation Projects. Insights from the Coffee Supply Chain

Turning Farmers into Business Partners through Value Co-Creation Projects. Insights from the Coffee Supply Chain

What about Gender in Climate Change? Twelve Feminist Lessons from Development

Expounding the Value of Grain Legumes in the Semi- and Arid Tropics

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