Authors
Mirjam AF Ros-Tonen, Verena Bitzer, Anna Laven, David Ollivier de Leth, Yves Van Leynseele, Andrea Vos
Publication date
2019/12/1
Source
Current opinion in environmental sustainability
Volume
41
Pages
10-17
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
Highlights
- Smallholder value chain participation requires critical unpacking of inclusiveness.
- Inclusiveness comprises economic, social, relational, and environmental dimensions.
- Value chain participation and collaboration will never be inclusive to all.
- Inclusiveness is not a state of being, but mainly a process.
- There are multiple pathways toward achieving inclusiveness.
The integration of male and female smallholders in high-end value chains (eg those for tree crops like cocoa, oil palm, avocado, and mango), has been promoted throughout the global South as a strategy for poverty alleviation, economic growth, employment generation, gender equality, and improved wellbeing. More critical literature, however, questions the inclusiveness of farmers’ value chain engagement. Despite rapid mainstreaming of inclusiveness in policy discourse, remarkably little literature sheds light on the operationalization of the concept …
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