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Mapping stakeholders’ viewpoints on innovation along a livestock value chain: a Q method application

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  • Benoît Govoeyi
  • Serge G. Ahounou
  • Pascal S. Kiki
  • Ignace O. Dotché
  • Nassim Moula
  • Issaka Youssao Abdou Karim
  • Nicolas Antoine-Moussiaux

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Innovating is vital to farmers in sub-Saharan Africa, to adapt to challenges and benefit from opportunities. Stakeholders’ decisions to engage in innovation programmes are influenced by their perceptions. This article uses the Q-method application to investigate these perceptions along the swine value chain in Benin. Fifty-five statements were established with local stakeholders and then graded by 25 interviewees on an 11-grade scale. Three main discourses were identified: an optimistic discourse tied to an endogenous vision of innovation, and a pessimistic one to a top-down, exogenous vision. A third discourse highlighted more nuanced redistributive effects of innovation. Innovation platform projects, stimulating local innovation, should rest on and reinforce the first optimistic discourse.

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  • Benoît Govoeyi & Serge G. Ahounou & Pascal S. Kiki & Ignace O. Dotché & Nassim Moula & Issaka Youssao Abdou Karim & Nicolas Antoine-Moussiaux, 2021. "Mapping stakeholders’ viewpoints on innovation along a livestock value chain: a Q method application," Development in Practice, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 31(2), pages 214-225, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cdipxx:v:31:y:2021:i:2:p:214-225
    DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2020.1836124
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