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The Role of Grassroots Institutions in Agriculture in Sub Saharan Africa

In: Agricultural Supply Chains, Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

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  • Nicolas Depetris Chauvin

    (University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève)

  • Guido Porto

    (Universidad Nacional de La Plata)

  • Francis Mulangu

    (African Center for Economic Transformation)

Abstract

Grassroots institutions (GRIs) are mechanisms available to smallholder farmers to coordinate activities both horizontally (among members) and vertically (between members and other value chain actors, inside or outside the community). These organizations can reduce transaction costs by creating economies of scale for input supply, technological transfer, or joint marketing, or by facilitating concerted action between farmers (Staal et al. 1998). Established in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) during the colonial period in the form of cooperatives, GRIs became a means of promoting production and facilitating the collection of cash crops such as coffee, cocoa, tobacco, cotton, and vanilla for export. Although farmers were already organized in groups to address social and community constraints, the colonial period leveraged these indigenous institutions to introduce market orientation functions and formalized them by establishing bureaucratic links with local and central authorities.

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  • Nicolas Depetris Chauvin & Guido Porto & Francis Mulangu, 2017. "The Role of Grassroots Institutions in Agriculture in Sub Saharan Africa," Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development, in: Agricultural Supply Chains, Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa, chapter 0, pages 153-173, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:aaechp:978-3-662-53858-6_9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-53858-6_9
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