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    Partnerships blending institutional logics for inclusive global and regional food value chains in Ghana; with what smallholder effect?

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    van Paassen, A.
    Osei-Amponsah, Charity
    Klerkx, L.
    van Mierlo, B.
    Essegbey, G. O.
    Date Issued
    2022-10
    Date Online
    2022-04
    Language
    en
    Type
    Journal Article
    Review status
    Peer Review
    ISI journal
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    Open Access
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    van Paassen, A.; Osei-Amponsah, Charity; Klerkx, L.; van Mierlo, B.; Essegbey, G. O. 2022. Partnerships blending institutional logics for inclusive global and regional food value chains in Ghana; with what smallholder effect?. European Journal of Development Research, 34(5):2179-2203. (Special issue: Policies for Inclusive Development in Sub-Saharan Africa) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-022-00530-4]
    Permanent link to cite or share this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10568/119990
    External link to download this item: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1057/s41287-022-00530-4.pdf
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-022-00530-4
    Abstract/Description
    We witness a promotion of hybrid partnerships, where actors with different competences and resources collaborate for smallholder inclusive value chain development. To better understand the functioning of these partnerships, we used institutional theory and studied the context of a global and emerging regional food value chains in Ghana, the blending of logics by key actors in Innovation Platforms and Public Private Partnerships, and their effect on value chain relations of smallholder farmers. In the global value chain of cocoa, partnerships adhered to ‘green revolution’ and ‘free-market’ logics, and provided all farmers material support. In the more informally organised regional food sector, local executing partners selectively coupled their logics with those of poor smallholders, who rely on low-input agriculture and solidarity logics to make ends meet. This improved the position and transaction costs of smallholders to participate in the value chain. Hence, it is more likely for partnerships to create smallholder inclusive governance in informally organised regional food value chains, than highly structured global value chains controlled by international buyers. To gain insight in the variety of political effects this triggers in different social–historical shaped farmer communities, households and actors, we recommend complementary local research from a critical institutional perspective.
    CGIAR Author ORCID iDs
    Charity Osei-Amponsahhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0135-0489
    AGROVOC Keywords
    value chains; smallholders; partnerships; innovation platforms; public-private partnerships; governance; cocoa
    Countries
    Ghana
    Regions
    Western Africa
    Investors/sponsors
    Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
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