Agricultural strategy development in West Africa: The false promise of participation?

cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen_US
cg.coverage.regionWestern Africaen_US
cg.coverage.regionSub-Saharan Africaen_US
cg.creator.identifierDanielle Resnick: 0000-0001-6285-3461en_US
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Development Strategy and Governance Divisionen_US
cg.number844en_US
cg.placeWashington, DCen_US
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen_US
dc.contributor.authorResnick, Danielleen_US
dc.contributor.authorBirner, Reginaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-21T09:54:47Zen_US
dc.date.available2024-11-21T09:54:47Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/161305en_US
dc.titleAgricultural strategy development in West Africa: The false promise of participation?en_US
dcterms.abstractParticipatory approaches are an increasingly prominent technique for designing agricultural strategies within Sub-Saharan Africa. However, such approaches are frequently criticized for either not involving enough stakeholders or limiting the scope of their participation. By analyzing the role of stakeholder participation in the formulation of agricultural and rural development strategies in West Africa, this paper finds that a lack of broad-based participation in these strategies was not a major problem. Rather, the real challenge lies in transforming the outcomes of participatory processes into policies that can be feasibly implemented. The paper highlights why an emphasis on participatory processes can sometimes result in disappointment among stakeholders and discusses a range of measures to help overcome this dilemma.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationResnick, Danielle; Birner, Regina. 2008. Agricultural strategy development in West Africa. IFPRI Discussion Paper 844. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161305en_US
dcterms.extent16 p.en_US
dcterms.isPartOfIFPRI Discussion Paperen_US
dcterms.issued2008en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen_US
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/15375en_US
dcterms.subjectagricultural developmenten_US
dcterms.subjectrural development strategiesen_US
dcterms.subjectpolicy analysisen_US
dcterms.subjectparticipationen_US
dcterms.subjectdemocracyen_US
dcterms.subjectgovernanceen_US
dcterms.typeWorking Paperen_US

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