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Iddrisu, Azindow Yakubu ; Ouma, Stefan ; Yaro, Joseph Awetori:
When agricultural commercialization fails : "Re-visiting" value-chain agriculture and its ruins in northern Ghana.
In: Globalizations.
(2022)
.
- pp. 1-21.
ISSN 1474-774X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2022.2135423
Abstract in another language
Commercialization via value-chain agriculture, under which small farmers often collaborate with big companies, has become a prominent development strategy across Africa. Often framed in win-win terms, the dark sides of such projects (e.g. project failure, related losses) are often sidelined in both academic and practitioner discourses on agricultural commercialization. Informed by a collaborative ethnography of a failed value-chain agriculture project in Ghana, this paper seeks to contribute to a better understanding of how farmers, agribusiness companies, and development organizations engage with and shape commercialization processes, and how those most affected – farmers and their communities – experience often risky and conflict-prone ventures. In contrast to the win-win-rhetoric adopted by funders and corporate partners in such projects, we foreground the uneven distribution of risk and sacrifice/losses between farmers, communities, and corporate partners; the socially and materially disruptive nature of commercialization projects for host communities; and the clashes between a planner’s view of the world and the environmental realities of commercialization.
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| Item Type: | Article in a journal |
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| Refereed: | Yes |
| Keywords: | contract farming; value chains; Africa; debt; risk; agrarian change |
| Institutions of the University: | Faculties > Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Earth Sciences Faculties > Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Earth Sciences > Department of Earth Sciences Faculties > Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Earth Sciences > Department of Earth Sciences > Chair Economic Geography Faculties > Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Earth Sciences > Department of Earth Sciences > Chair Economic Geography > Chair Economic Geography - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stefan Ouma |
| Result of work at the UBT: | No |
| DDC Subjects: | 300 Social sciences > 300 Social sciences, sociology and anthropology 300 Social sciences > 320 Political science 300 Social sciences > 330 Economics 900 History and geography > 910 Geography, travel |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Nov 2023 08:59 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Nov 2023 08:59 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/87136 |