scholarly journals To work alone or with peers: Exploring smallholder coffee farmers’ perceptions influencing collective actions

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Colby Silvert ◽  
John Diaz ◽  
Laura Warner ◽  
Willis Ochieng
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Smallholder Farmers ◽  
External Support ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Collective Actions ◽  
Group Leaders ◽  
Coffee Farmers ◽  
Assistance Systems ◽  
Peer Association

This study examines how smallholder coffee farmers’ perceptions may influence their engagement in peer mobilization and collective action. Forty smallholder coffee farmers were interviewed in the Central Highlands region of Peru using a closed-ended instrument. The sample of smallholder farmers was achieved using purposive and snowball sampling methods. Quantitative data on farmers’ attitudes and aspirations regarding working with peers, autonomy, and external support as well as knowledge, skills, and behaviors pertinent to collective actions were collected and analyzed using descriptive and correlational procedures. Key findings indicate farmers perceive a need for external support, feel there are benefits of collective actions, and aspire to work with their peers. Based on the findings, it is recommended that practitioners and farmer group leaders focus training efforts on building smallholders’ knowledge and skills in mobilization, encourage peer association/collective action as a source of external support, and target knowledgeable, skilled and confident farmers to lead collective actions. This study has implications to bolster support for farmer-to-farmer extension and technical assistance systems and inform the identification of leader farmers.

scholarly journals PERANAN KELEMBANGAN BAGI PENGEMBANGAN SUMBER DAYA NON MATERIAL DALAM MENUNJANG PEMBANGUNAN PERDESAAN

2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 263
Author(s):  
Mansur Afifi ◽  
Sitti Latifah
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Purposive Sampling

Penelitian ini dimaksudkan untuk mengidentifikasi model dan menganalisis peran kelembagaan bagi pengembangan sumber daya non material dalam mendukung pembangunan perdesaan. Penelitian ini dilakukan di tiga kecamatan di kabupaten Lombok Barat Nusa Tenggara Barat. Pendekatan yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah pendekatan kualitatif. Informan ditentukan berdasarkan metode purposive sampling dan jumlahnya ditentukan dengan metode snowball sampling. Teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan adalah observasi, observasi partisipatif, dan wawancara mendalam. Analisis data dilakukan dengan melalui empat tahapan yaitu reduksi data, penyajian data, interpretasi data, dan verifikasi data (penarikan kesimpulan). Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa kelembagaan perdesaan yang mengembangkan sumber daya non material di samping dapat mewujudkan partisipasi, efektifitas, efisiensi, dan keberlanjutan juga melahirkan berbagai aksi bersama (collective action) dari masyarakat yang tidak pernah terbayangkan sebelumnya (emergence property). Berbagai kesepakatan bersama yang dihasilkan tersebut dihajatkan untuk memenuhi kebutuhan bersama (publik) dan ini sejalan dengan tujuan pembangunan yang dilakukan oleh pemerintah. Oleh karena itu, kelembagaan bagi pengembangan sumber daya non material perlu terlebih dahulu diwujudkan sebelum program teknis diimplementasikan di desa. Kata Kunci: kelembagaan, pembelajaran rekognitif, sumber daya non material, dialog bersama dan aksi bersama.

scholarly journals Local Institutions in Climate Change Adaptation by Smallholder Farmers: A farm level study in Homabay County, Kenya.

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 189-199
Author(s):  
Danice Otieno Awinda; Raphael Kapiyo; Jackson John Kitetu
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Smallholder Farmers ◽  
Local Level ◽  
External Support ◽  
Local Institutions ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Significance Level ◽  
Adaptation Practices

The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of local institutions in climate change adaptation by smallholder farmers in Homabay County, Kenya. The study employed cross-sectional survey design in which data was collected from smallholder farmers in one survey round. Quantitative data was collected from 398 smallholder farmers, while 48 key informant interviews and 12 focus group discussions were used to collect qualitative data to buttress information from farmers. Data was analysed using frequencies, percentages, cross-tabulations and chi-square at 0.05 significance level. The study established that local institutions and social networks had a positive influence on climate change adaptation by smallholder farmers. Local institutions and social groups enable smallholder farmers to deploy specific climate change adaptation practices. Local institutions pursue adoption of effective adaptation strategies relevant to local needs of the smallholder farmers. They also provide information on climate change adaptation options and give some external support to enable farmers cope with climate change. The study recommended the need to promote institutional partnership to enhance climate change adaptation at local level. Partnerships among local institutions are associated with area specific adaptation practices and communal pooling. The study also recommended the need to enhance the capacity of local institutions as the impacts of climate change are likely to intensify with time. Support in the form of new information and technology aimed at improving effective coping mechanisms and financial support will be necessary.

Transition in Social Foundations for Collective Action

1980 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 419-451
Author(s):  
Craig Calhoun
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Industrial Workers ◽  
Collective Actions ◽  
Social Foundations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Working People ◽  
Different Populations ◽  
Traditional Communities

During the 1820s and early 1830s, two largely different populations of working people lived alongside each other in the region surrounding Manchester. Today, they represent, in an important and clear contrast, the social foundations which have supported distinctive directions of popular protest and collective action. The theory of working-class radicalism, as developed by Marx and others, has tended to confound the two. The necessary radicalism and fundamental opposition to the growth of capitalist industry of more traditional communities of craft workers was wedded to the concentrated numbers of new industrial workers and the clarity of their exploitation by capitalists. This marriage took place in theory, but not in concrete social movements. The working class emerged as a foundation for basically reformist collective actions, while the radical and reactionary populist craftsmen lost the war of the industrial revolution.

Coffee farmers' incentives to comply with sustainability standards

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 365-383
Author(s):  
Sylvaine Lemeilleur ◽  
Julie Subervie ◽  
Anderson Edilson Presoto ◽  
Roberta Souza Piao ◽  
Maria Sylvia M. Saes
Keyword(s):  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Agricultural Practices ◽  
Price Premium ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Poor Access ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Coffee Farmers ◽  
Sustainability Standards ◽  
Public Strategies

PurposeThis paper investigates the incentives to coffee farmers to participate in certification schemes that require improved agricultural practices.Design/methodology/approachThe authors ran a choice experiment among 250 Brazilian coffee farmers in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil.FindingsThe authors’ findings show that both cash and non-cash payments are likely to incentive farmers' participation in a certification scheme. Besides price premium, incentives as long-term contracts and provision of technical would encourage producers to adopt eco-certification schemes. Our results also suggest that non-cash payments may be appropriate substitutes to a price premium to some extent.Research limitations/implicationsThe large coffee producers are over-represented in our sample compared to the population of Brazilian coffee farms. However, it seems reasonable to focus on these producers, as they are usually the ones who individually adopt strategies, since small farmers are induced by collective strategies (e.g. cooperatives).Social implicationsThe result regarding technical assistance makes sense given that Brazilian farmers generally have poor access to rural extension services.Originality/valueWe contributed in the literature about adoption of sustainable agriculture practices analyzing the requirements and motivations for farmer participation in certification schemes. We also contribute private and public strategies to encourage the adoption of sustainable practices.

scholarly journals Receptiveness Of GPs In The South Of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany To Obtaining Training On Technical Assistance Systems For Caregiving: A Cross-Sectional Study

2019 ◽  
Vol Volume 14 ◽  
pp. 1649-1656 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Buhtz ◽  
Denny Paulicke ◽  
Karsten Schwarz ◽  
Patrick Jahn ◽  
Dietrich Stoevesandt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
The South ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Assistance Systems

From Credit to Collective Action: The Role of Microfinance in Promoting Women's Social Capital and Normative Influence

2009 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 529-550 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paromita Sanyal
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Collective Actions ◽  
Normative Influence ◽  
Access To Credit ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Socially Isolated ◽  
Collective Empowerment ◽  
Economic Ties

Can economic ties positively influence social relations and actions? If so, how does this influence operate? Microfinance programs, which provide credit through a group-based lending strategy, provide the ideal setting for exploring these questions. This article examines whether structuring socially isolated women into peer-groups for an explicitly economic purpose, such as access to credit, has any effect on the women's collective social behavior. Based on interviews with 400 women from 59 microfinance groups in West Bengal, India, I find that one third of these groups undertook various collective actions. Improvements in women's social capital and normative influence fostered this capacity for collective action. Several factors contributed to these transformations, including economic ties among members, the structure of the group network, and women's participation in group meetings. Based on these findings, I argue that microfinance groups have the potential to promote women's social capital and normative influence, thereby facilitating women's collective empowerment. I conclude by discussing the need for refining our understanding of social capital and social ties that promote normative influence.

The psychological dimensions of collective action, online

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Postmes
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Collective Actions ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Psychological Dimensions ◽  
The Way

This article examines the consequences of the migration of collective action into the mediated sphere. It focuses on the impact of the Internet on key psychological factors that are involved in collective action. The structure is as follows. First, the article considers the theoretical backdrop to its themes, focusing first on the classic literatures on crowds and on mediated communication, followed by more contemporary perspectives – identifying the underlying consistencies in the theoretical themes these literatures address. It identifies some key psychological factors that drive collective action. Then the article considers how the Internet changes the nature of collective action and the context in which it takes place. Subsequently, it elaborates how these changes might affect the key factors previously identified. Finally, the article takes a step back from all this and returns to the question of whether this amounts to a revolution in the way collective actions take place.

Bridging Women Rights Networks

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serpil T. Yuce ◽  
Nitin Agarwal ◽  
Rolf T. Wigand ◽  
Merlyna Lim ◽  
Rebecca S. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Cooperative Networks ◽  
Collective Actions ◽  
Digital Activism ◽  
Network Support ◽  
Diffusion Of Information ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
Women Rights

In recent mass protests such as the Arab Spring and Occupy movements, protesters used social media to spread awareness, coordinate, and mobilize support. Social media-assisted collective action has attracted much attention from journalists, political observers, and researchers of various disciplines. In this article, the authors study transnational online collective action through the lens of inter-network cooperation. The authors analyze interaction and support between the women's rights networks of two online collective actions: ‘Women to Drive' (primarily Saudi Arabia) and ‘Sexual Harassment' (global). Methodologies used include: extracting each collective action's social network from blogs authored by female Muslim bloggers (23 countries), mapping interactions among network actors, and conducting sentiment analysis on observed interactions to provide a better understanding of inter-network support. The authors examine these two distinct but overlapped networks of collective actions and discover that brokering and bridging processes can facilitate the diffusion of information, coalition formation, and the expansion of the networks. The broader goal of the study is to examine the dynamics between interconnected collective actions. This research contributes to understanding the mobilization of social movements in digital activism and the role of cooperative networks in online collective action.

scholarly journals Sustainable food chains: the role of collective action and government incentives

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (83) ◽  
pp. 618-632
Author(s):  
Silvia Morales de Queiroz Caleman ◽  
Guilherme Fowler de Avila Monteiro ◽  
George Hendrikse
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Collective Actions ◽  
Collective Action Problem ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
Sustainable Supply Chains ◽  
Sustainable Products ◽  
Government Incentives ◽  
Direct Payments ◽  
The Government

Abstract We examine the role of collective actions as supporting elements of a long-lasting sustainable food supply chain. This article’s main contribution is to link the idea of sustainable supply chains and the collective action problem (horizontal coordination) that may be required in order to deal with externalities related to the provision of sustainable products. In addition, we analyze how the presence or absence of government incentives shapes collective action in the food industry. We base our analysis in a simple formal argument inspired by case studies regarding sustainable farming in Brazil and the Netherlands. Results show that horizontal mechanisms of cooperation maintain positive levels of sustainability, even in the absence of direct payments by the government.

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