The Windmill Approach

Leonardo, Wilson; Bijman, Jos; Slingerland, M.A.

doi:10.5367/oa.2015.0212

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“…This study builds on three approaches for analysis of a farming system and its interaction with the market: the farmers' perspective of Oosting et al [3], the market quality perspective of Duncan et al [28] and the sales arrangement/Windmill perspective of Leonardo et al [34]. Our exploration of the co-evolution of farming systems and service arrangements offers new insights in three areas.…”

Section: Upgrading Dynamics As Results Of Farm-market-context Interactmentioning

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“…B. Farm-market interaction-Value chain upgrading changes the way a farm interacts with the market. Following the Windmill approach of Leonardo et al [34], we explored the influence of the various service arrangements that determine farmers' options for marketing their produce. We looked at farmers' access to markets, associated transaction costs, and fit of service We view the farming system and market system as two interacting, co-evolving systems within dairy clusters, each of which may experience 'system jumps' between development stages [3].…”

Section: Analytical Framework-two Subsystems In Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…More intensive dairy can thus be considered to be one of the high-value 'cash crop' options that farmers can specialize in when market and context conditions are right; so are other intensive livestock activities, such as commercial poultry. This makes the Windmill approach, postulated for crop commodities by Leonardo et al [34], to be applicable to livestock commodities as well. However, ample attention is needed for input service arrangements, which need to be especially elaborate for livestock ventures.…”

Section: Present Upgrading Status Of Farming and Clustersmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Intensification and Upgrading Dynamics in Emerging Dairy Clusters in the East African Highlands

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Based on farmer and value chain actor interviews, this comparative study of five emerging dairy clusters elaborates on the upgrading of farming systems, value chains, and context shapes transformations from semi-subsistent to market-oriented dairy farming. The main results show unequal cluster upgrading along two intensification dimensions: dairy feeding system and cash cropping. Intensive dairy is competing with other high-value cash crop options that resource-endowed farmers specialize in, given conducive support service arrangements and context conditions. A large number of drivers and co-dependencies between technical, value chain, and institutional upgrading build up to system jumps. Transformation may take decades when market and context conditions remain sub-optimal. Clusters can be expected to move further along initial intensification pathways, unless actors consciously redirect course. The main theoretical implications for debate about cluster upgrading are that co-dependencies between farming system, market, and context factors determine upgrading outcomes; the implications for the debate about intensification pathways are that they need to consider differences in farmer resource endowments, path dependency, concurrency, and upgrading investments. Sustainability issues for consideration include enabling a larger proportion of resource-poor farmers to participate in markets; enabling private input and service provision models; attention for food safety; and climate smartness.

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Section: Upgrading Dynamics As Results Of Farm-market-context Interactmentioning

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Section: Analytical Framework-two Subsystems In Contextmentioning

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Section: Present Upgrading Status Of Farming and Clustersmentioning

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Intensification and Upgrading Dynamics in Emerging Dairy Clusters in the East African Highlands

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“…Two factors may be at play: First, many households choose to diversify their livelihoods towards income-generating activities before they are food self-sufficient (Frelat et al 2016;Ritzema et al 2017). Second, particularly the food deficient households are often unable to achieve food self-sufficiency, because they need to sell some of their food crop harvest to pay for non-food expenses (Leonardo et al 2015). In the Northern region, food self-sufficiency was less than in the other regions both overall and per class.…”

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Food availability and livelihood strategies among rural households across Uganda

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Despite continuing economic growth, Uganda faces persistent challenges to achieve food security. The effectiveness of policy and development strategies to help rural households achieve food security must improve. We present a novel approach to relate spatial patterns of food security to livelihood strategies, including the contribution of on-and offfarm activities to household food availability. Data from 1927 households from the World Bank Living Standards Measurement Study were used to estimate the calorific contribution of livelihood activities to food availability. Consumption of crops produced on-farm contributed most to food availability for households with limited food availability, yet the majority of these households were not food self-sufficient. Off-farm and market-oriented on-farm activities were more important for households with greater food availability. Overall, off-farm income was important in the north, while market-oriented on-farm activities were important in western and central Uganda. Food availability patterns largely matched patterns of agroecological conditions and market access, with households doing worst in Uganda's drier and remote northeast. Less food-secure households depended more on short-cycle food crops as compared with better-off households, who focused more on plantation (cash) crops, although this varied among regions. Targeting interventions to improve food security should consider such differences in enterprise choice and include options to improve household market access and off-farm income opportunities.

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“…From the various models of agricultural production chains (Davis & Goldberg, 1957), recent research has focused on different technological aspects of their performance (Leonardo, Bijman, & Slingerland, 2015), unfortunately forgetting that production practices, marketing and consumption of agricultural products are made by people who control their actions based on their desires and preferences from memory (Note 5) of the society in which they lived (Bustillo et al, 2009;Casanova-Pérez et al, 2015a;Martínez-Dávila & Bustillo-García, 2010).…”

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The Tilapia Agrifood-Chain from a Sociopoietic Territorial Approach: A Theoretical Proposal

Lango-Reynoso¹,

Reta-Mendiola²,

López³

et al. 2016

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In the state of Veracruz, Mexico, the performance of the Tilapia (Oreochromis spp.) production system in the domestic market has been declining. Recent production results are lower than those presented in 1999, revealing that the production model adopted and used since 2001 is ineffective as a development strategy. The reason for the failure is that the model considers the technological production process as the central element of aquacultural competitiveness, without considering that production practices, marketing and consumption of goods are performed by individuals who decide and control their actions and are motivated by the values shared with their social group. This interpretation reveals the need for a new complementary conceptual framework, considering the system of production and consumption as a social self-referencing system. Thus, in this article, a model of an agricultural food-chain with a sociopoietic territorial focus on the development of the aquaculture subsector is outlined. The model is based on constructs having the following theoretical dichotomies: territorial agrifood, neo-institutional business, sociopoiesis and individual motivation.

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The Windmill Approach

Cited by 12 publications

References 26 publications

Intensification and Upgrading Dynamics in Emerging Dairy Clusters in the East African Highlands

Intensification and Upgrading Dynamics in Emerging Dairy Clusters in the East African Highlands

Food availability and livelihood strategies among rural households across Uganda

The Tilapia Agrifood-Chain from a Sociopoietic Territorial Approach: A Theoretical Proposal

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