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Global nuts and local mangoes: a critical reading of the UNDP Growing Sustainable Business Initiative in Kenya
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Abstract This article provides a conceptual and empirical assessment of UN brokered partnerships that seek to deepen or create inclusive and sustainable agricultural supply chains in sub-Saharan Africa. More specifically it appraises the decision-making mechanisms, processes of partnership brokerage and proj... mehr
This article provides a conceptual and empirical assessment of UN brokered partnerships that seek to deepen or create inclusive and sustainable agricultural supply chains in sub-Saharan Africa. More specifically it appraises the decision-making mechanisms, processes of partnership brokerage and project implementation within the UNDP Growing Sustainable Business Initiative (GSB) in Kenya. The paper argues that the lack of bottom-up participation in decision-making mechanisms and the predominantly economic imperatives driving the GSB partnership projects have failed to reach out to the partnerships’ intended beneficiaries—Kenyan small producers of nuts and mangoes. In conclusion it is suggested that opening up the GSB platform might hold the promise of reconciling sustainable business models with (some) poverty reduction.... weniger
Klassifikation
internationale Beziehungen, Entwicklungspolitik
Freie Schlagwörter
UNDP; Public–private partnerships; Sustainable investment; Millennium development goals; Poverty reduction; Farmers
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2009
Seitenangabe
S. 369-383
Zeitschriftentitel
Agriculture and Human Values, 28 (2009) 3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-009-9211-z
Status
Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)