Inclusive value chain collaboration in the tree crop
Inclusive value chain collaboration in the tree crop sector in Ghana and South Africa For greater food sovereignty and sustainable landscapes BEST PRACTICES AND CHALLENGES
Best practice: Learning platforms as space for joint learning and knowledge sharing ¢ To be organised at the level that is most relevant for the farmers
Challenge: How to make learning platforms sustainable considering the transaction costs?
Best practice: spin-off projects ¢ ¢ Lindt Foundation: additional funding to study VCC in which Lindt is involved (gender, innovations ‘from below’, role of change makers) (Ghana) Subtrop & ARC: Lead Farmer Project (SA): stimulate profilespecific production and business skills, promote farmer-2 farmer learning
Best practice: MSc research ¢ ¢ Quicker results than in Ph. D projects Can take up emerging research questions
Best practice and challenge: transdisciplinarity ¢ ¢ Different perspectives among consortium partners: the sum is more than the parts But: sometimes a split and contrasting views, e. g. about knowledge transfer and how to bring about innovations
Best practice and challenge: capacity building ¢ ¢ ¢ Strong MSc/Mphil involvement in Ghana More difficult to find candidates in SA How to deal with different contexts?
Beste practice & challenge: participatory research approach ¢ ¢ Farmers feel part of the research process in Ghana But there is limited presence in the field in SA
Challenge: how to exchange information across sub-projects and countries? ¢ ¢ Living documents (shared principles and action plans) Writeshops
Keeping in touch and informed? htpps: //inclusivevcc. wordpress. com ¢ Contacts: Dr Mirjam A. F. Ros-Tonen (Uv. A), m. a. f. ros-tonen@uva. nl Dr Yves van Leynseele (Uv. A), y. p. b. van. Leynseele@uva. nl Dr Anna Laven (KIT), a. laven@kit. nl Dr Mercy Derkyi (UENR), afuaderkyi@yahoo. com Prof dr Daniel Obeng-Ofori (UENR), daniel. obeng-ofori@uenr. edu. gh Mr Edward Kofi Ametepe (GAABIC), kametepe 777@yahoo. co. uk Dr Aart-Jan Verschoor (ARC), aartjan@arc. agric. za Dr Petronella Chaminuka (ARC), chaminukap@arc. agric. za Prof Isaac Oluwatayo (Uo. L), isaac. oluwatayo@ul. ac. za
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