Collective action for smallholder market access

By Helen Markelova, Ruth S. Meinzen-Dick, J. Hellin, Stephan Dohrn. 2009

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Subfields: Business and International Management, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Global and Planetary Change

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Improving market access and agricultural productivity growth in Africa: what role for producer organizations and collective action institutions? (2011, background): “There may be a danger of generalizing from successful case studies because failures tend not to be written about (Markelova et al. 2009) but a review of the literature sheds light on the factors that can contribute to effective producer organizations and collective action institutions while at the…”
Smallholder Farmers and Collective Action: What Determines the Intensity of Participation? (2014, background): “Smallholder organization in farmer groups is seen as a possible institutional solution to overcome high transaction costs and other market failures in developing countries (Markelova et al. 2009).”
Smallholder Agriculture in East Africa: Trends, Constraints and Opportunities (2010, background): “Moreover, recent studies tend to examine specific constraints to smallholders’ activities (Liverpool and Winter-Nelson, 2010; Reardon et al., 2009; Markelova et al., 2009; Obare et al., 2003 and others), but do not take a 3 Smallholder farming is often referred to as family farming, subsistence…”
Exploring double side-selling in cooperatives, case study of four coffee cooperatives in Rwanda (2013, background): “Markelova et al. (2009) emphasise that collective marketing may not be profitable or t 5 Coffee production requires long term investments associated with the coffee roductive cycle: 2–3 years are needed for seedlings to grow and yield berries, 3– years for the trees to be fully productive and then…”
Linking Smallholders to Markets: Determinants and Impacts of Farmer Collective Action in Kenya (2012, background): “There are also cases where collective action did not improve the farmers’ situation and where groups dissolved after disappointing experience (Markelova et al., 2009; Poulton, Dorward, & Kydd, 2010).”
Agrobiodiversity for food security, health and income (2013, background): “Development of markets or stimulation of demand at local, national and international level is a precondition for farmers to derive income from DOCs (Markelova et al. 2009).”
Does cooperative membership improve household welfare? Evidence from a panel data analysis of smallholder dairy farmers in Bihar, India (2018, background): “…competitive prices for both inputs and outputs, reduce transaction costs, improve information symmetry, and improve agrofood safety and quality standards (Trebbin, 2014; Jia et al., 2012; Moustier et al., 2010; Hellin et al., 2009; Markelova et al., 2009; Valentinov, 2007; Holloway et al., 2000).”
Farmers' Producer Companies in India: A New Concept for Collective Action? (2012, background): “…that small farmers in particular in developing countries struggle to cope with the aforementioned trends in the global agrofood system, which confront them with challenges they find difficult to meet (Markelova et al, 2009; Maskaure and Henson, 2005; Narrod et al, 2007; 2009; Reardon et al, 2009).”
Gender, agricultural commercialization, and collective action in Kenya (2012, background): “Kenya”
Agricultural Extension, Collective Action and Innovation Systems: Lessons on Network Brokering from Peru and Mexico (2012, background): “These approaches include Farmer Field Schools (FFS) (Anandajayasekeram et al., 2007), Local Agricultural Research Committees (CIALs) (Bentley et al., 2006) and farmer organizations (Markelova et al., 2009).”