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The Political Economy of Agricultural Commercialisation: Insights from Crop Value Chain Studies in Sub-Saharan Africa

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dc.creator Chinsinga, Blessings
dc.creator Naess, Lars Otto
dc.date 2022-03-17T14:24:17Z
dc.date 2022-03-17T14:24:17Z
dc.date 2022-03-01
dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-26T08:53:55Z
dc.date.available 2022-05-26T08:53:55Z
dc.identifier Chinsinga, B. and Naess, L.O. (2022) The Political Economy of Agricultural Commercialisation: Insights From Crop Value Chain Studies in Sub- Saharan Africa. APRA Working Paper 87. Brighton: Future Agricultures Consortium, DOI: 10.19088/APRA.2022.014
dc.identifier 978-1-78118-961-0
dc.identifier https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/17242
dc.identifier Rural Futures
dc.identifier 10.19088/APRA.2022.014
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/199032
dc.description This paper is a synthesis of findings from 11 value chains case studies in six countries across sub- Saharan Africa, carried out as part of the APRA programme during 2020–21. The countries and their respective value chains case studies included: Ethiopia (rice), Ghana (oil palm and cocoa), Malawi (groundnuts), Nigeria (maize, cocoa and rice), Tanzania (rice and sunflower) and Zimbabwe (tobacco and maize). A political economy analysis (PEA) framework was used to examine the performance of the selected value chains in the six countries. The starting point for the studies was that the success of the value chains is driven by a combination of several factors, in particular related to the relative importance of a crop in the country’s political settlement, the relative influence of different actors, and, ultimately, its ability to generate and distribute rents. In this synthesis, we ask the following questions: (1) What are the drivers and obstacles to commercialisation in the value chains? (2) What are the key factors affecting rents and outcomes, and for whom? And, (3) what are the future prospects for the value chains?
dc.language en
dc.publisher APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.rights APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium
dc.subject Agriculture
dc.subject Climate Change
dc.subject Development Policy
dc.subject Economic Development
dc.subject Participation
dc.subject Politics and Power
dc.subject Rural Development
dc.subject Work and Labour
dc.title The Political Economy of Agricultural Commercialisation: Insights from Crop Value Chain Studies in Sub-Saharan Africa
dc.type Series paper (non-IDS)
dc.coverage Ethiopia
dc.coverage Ghana
dc.coverage Malawi
dc.coverage Nigeria
dc.coverage Tanzania
dc.coverage Zimbabwe


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