An innovation platform for institutional change in Ghana's cocoa sector
| Autor: | Richard Adu-Acheampong, Janice Jiggins, Ebenezer Tei Quartey, Nana Maxwell Karikari, William Jonfia-Essien, Edward Quarshie, Paul Osei-Fosu, Maxwell Amuzu, Charles Afari-Mintah, Kwasi Ofori-Frimpong, Michael Owusu-Manu, Nana Nyarko Eku X, Owuraku Sakyi-Dawson, William Quarmine, Francis Otu Acquah |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Price formation Stakeholder-led change Management Monitoring Policy and Law Pest control Market economy Cocoa Process tracing 0502 economics and business Economics Revenue Production (economics) Quality (business) Value chain media_common 05 social sciences 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences Exchange-rate regime Equilibrium level Economy Technologie and Innovatie 040103 agronomy & agriculture Knowledge Technology and Innovation 0401 agriculture forestry and fisheries Kennis Animal Science and Zoology Profitability index 050202 agricultural economics & policy Agronomy and Crop Science Kennis Technologie and Innovatie |
| Zdroj: | Cahiers Agricultures, 26(3) Cahiers Agricultures 26 (2017) 3 |
| ISSN: | 1777-5949 |
| Popis: | Cocoa is a major source of employment, smallholder farmers' incomes, and export revenue in Ghana. However, by 2010 institutional constraints throughout the value chain were failing to sustain bean quality and cocoa production. A national-level innovation platform, comprising key public and private actors in the cocoa sector, was established in 2010 to analyse and act to address this concern. The members' initial inquiries revealed that: farmers indirectly were paying for the national mass spraying and Hi-Tech input programmes, both provided free at the point of delivery. As the largest components in the cost structure, these programmes to a large extent accounted for the low price paid to farmers for their beans; a volatile exchange rate regime meant that often the prevailing rate was not equal to its equilibrium level; policies that heavily taxed cocoa were destroying farmers' expectation of long-term profitability. This paper draws on data recorded from the beginning 2009 to end 2013 by means of theory-guided process tracing 5(TGPT), to show how the platform contributed to increased prices for farmers, to subsequent reform of the input supply arrangements, and to changes to the mass spraying programme. The key causal mechanisms identified are policy learning and progressive amendment of existing institutions. The paper concludes by drawing lessons for the role of an innovation platform. |
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