Challenges to groundnut value chain development: Lessons from an (attempted) experiment in Ghana

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country instituteen
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.contributor.affiliationTennessee State Universityen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Georgiaen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationColorado State Universityen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity for Development Studies, Ghanaen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä Finlanden
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden
cg.contributor.donorUnited States Agency for International Developmenten
cg.coverage.countryGhana
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2GH
cg.coverage.regionWestern Africa
cg.creator.identifierVivian Hoffmann: 0000-0002-6464-3748
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/19439342.2024.2319657en
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Markets, Trade, and Institutions Unit
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Feed the Future
cg.identifier.publicationRankC
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn1943-9342en
cg.issue4en
cg.journalJournal of Development Effectivenessen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.volume16en
dc.contributor.authorPosey, Seanen
dc.contributor.authorMagnan, Nicholasen
dc.contributor.authorMcCullough, Ellen B.en
dc.contributor.authorHoffmann, Vivianen
dc.contributor.authorOpoku, Nelsonen
dc.contributor.authorAlidu, Abdul-Hafizen
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-02T20:28:52Zen
dc.date.available2024-04-02T20:28:52Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/140731
dc.titleChallenges to groundnut value chain development: Lessons from an (attempted) experiment in Ghanaen
dcterms.abstractIn developing countries, value chains for many crops are underdeveloped, leading to low producer prices and poor quality produce. Value chain research using secondary data is made difficult by selection problems, whereas experimental research is logistically very difficult and lacks external validity. With the intention of conducting a field experiment, we piloted an intervention connecting smallholder groundnut farmers in Ghana to a premium groundnut processor through aggregators. While we successfully delivered inputs and training to farmers, we failed in our attempts to link aggregators with downstream processors over two growing seasons. In this paper, we situate the challenges we faced in the broader literature on value chains and identify three problems that prevented us from establishing a value chain for high quality groundnuts: uncertainty, cash constraints, and trust. To help inform future research on this topic, we propose three specific interventions that could mitigate these problems.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.available2024-03-18
dcterms.bibliographicCitationPosey, Sean; Magnan, Nicholas; McCullough, Ellen B.; Hoffman, Vivian; Opoku, Nelson; and Alidu, Abdul-Hafiz. Challenges to groundnut value chain development: Lessons from an (attempted) experiment in Ghana. Journal of Development Effectiveness 16(4): 468-484. https://doi.org/10.1080/19439342.2024.2319657en
dcterms.extentpp. 1-17en
dcterms.issued2024
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherRoutledgeen
dcterms.subjectcropsen
dcterms.subjectdeveloping countriesen
dcterms.subjectgroundnutsen
dcterms.subjectvalue chainsen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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