Promoting the role of farmer-based organizations for value chain integration: the tension between a program’s targeting and an organization’s investment strategy

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dc.creatorFrancesconi, Gian N.
dc.creatorWouterse, Fleur
dc.date2015-07
dc.date2015-05-28T22:04:19Z
dc.date2015-05-28T22:04:19Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:38:39Z
dc.descriptionWe use new data on 500 Farmer‐Based Organizations (FBOs) in Ghana and regression analysis to reveal determinants of collective investments and the case of the Millennium Development Authority's (MiDA) agricultural program in Ghana to demonstrate that development programs offering hard incentives may be counterproductive in promoting collective action. We show that when a program sets criteria for participation and offers in‐cash and in‐kind support to selected FBOs, it may promote rent‐seeking and crowd out equity capital formation. This is so because FBOs may have formed for the sole purpose of benefitting from incentives offered by the program and thus lack an economic justification, which is an important condition for progression through the cooperative life cycle. Further, by setting stringent participation criteria, the program may end up selecting younger organizations while it is the more consolidated organizations that are able to connect to business development services (BDS) and engage in more offensive collective action.
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/66453
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/110391
dc.languageen
dc.publisherWiley
dc.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/150034
dc.rightsLimited Access
dc.sourceFrancesconi, Gian Nicola; Wouterse, Fleur. 2015. Promoting the role of farmer-based organizations for value chain integration: the tension between a program’s targeting and an organization’s investment strategy. Agricultural Economics 46: 1-10.
dc.subjectsmallholders
dc.subjectfarmers organizations
dc.subjectorganizaciones de agricultores
dc.subjectpequeños agricultores
dc.subjectsupply chains
dc.subjectcollective action
dc.subjectimpact assessment
dc.titlePromoting the role of farmer-based organizations for value chain integration: the tension between a program’s targeting and an organization’s investment strategy
dc.typeJournal Article

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