Collective action initiatives to improve marketing performance: Lessons from farmer groups in Tanzania

By J. Barham, Clarence Chitemi. 2009

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Sociology and Political Science

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Mainstreaming Gender Sensitivity in Cash Crop Market Supply Chains (2014, background): “…for their existing products and at pursuing new products under contract arrangements, because men are more likely to be approached for their products by agricultural companies or other chain actors who wrongly assume that men are the primary producers in the household (Barham and Chitemi, 2009).”
Linking Smallholder Farmers to Markets and the Implications for Extension and Advisory Services (2014, background): “ Farmers linked to higher value markets typically have access to irrigation; most smallholders, especially those growing field crops, operate in a rain-fed environment (Barham and Chitemi, 2009).”
Gender, agricultural commercialization, and collective action in Kenya (2012, background): “Mayoux (1995) and Gotschi et al. (2009) have analyzed gender equity and mainstreaming within rural farmer groups and cooperatives, while Barham and Chitemi (2009) have examined linkages between the gender composition of groups and marketing performance.”
Farmers' Producer Companies in India: A New Concept for Collective Action? (2012, background): “Managerial capacities are regarded as key capacities for farmer organizations integrated into contemporary agrofood networks, and are generally hard to find among smallholder farmers (Barham and Chitemi, 2009; Biënabe and Sautier, 2005).”
The Tragedy of the Grabbed Commons: Coercion and Dispossession in the Global Land Rush (2017, neutral): “…inequality (Andersson & Agrawal, 2011), perdurability of natural resources (Agrawal, 2001; Berkes et al., 1989; Cox et al., 2010), food security (Barham & Chitemi, 2009; Béné, Macfadyen, & Allison, 2007), irrigation effectiveness (Lam, 1999), institutional stability, and maintained ownership…”
Smallholder Farmers and Collective Action: What Determines the Intensity of Participation? (2014, background): “Another literature strand has scrutinized structural and institutional aspects of farmer groups, such as group size, stringency of rules, commodity focus, and market conditions (Hellin et al. 2009; Barham and Chitemi 2009; Narrod et al 2009).”
Linking Smallholders to Markets: Determinants and Impacts of Farmer Collective Action in Kenya (2012, background): “In a study on collective marketing in Tanzania, only very few farmer groups improved the market situation in cereals and legumes, while all groups analyzed improved the situation in fruits and vegetables (Barham & Chitemi, 2009).”
Adoption of Modern Agricultural Production Technologies by Farm Households in Ghana: What Factors Influence their Decisions? (2012, background): “…that most modern technologies are expensive which makes it difficult for many farmers, especially those in rural areas where poverty is endemic to be able to acquire and utilise them without assistance in the form of supply of affordable credit and other financial services (Benin et al, 2009).”
Promising approaches to address the needs of poor female farmers (2010, background): “These include culturally inappropriate modes of transportation for women, such as trucks or motorcycles; physical harassment by market or health officials when the high cost of permits leads women to market their wares outside market boundaries; time burdens that constrain women from seeking the bes”