Mapping stakeholders' viewpoints on innovation along a livestock value chain: a Q method application. Issue 2 (17th February 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Govoeyi, Benoît; Ahounou, Serge G.; Kiki, Pascal S.; Dotché, Ignace O.; Moula, Nassim; Youssao Abdou Karim, Issaka; Antoine-Moussiaux, Nicolas
• Is Part Of: Development in practice. Volume 31:Issue 2(2021)
• Page Start: 214
• Page End: 225
• Publication Date: 2021-02-17
• Subjects: Civil society – Participation -- Labour and livelihoods – Poverty reduction -- Economics -- Environment (built and natural) – Agriculture -- Aid – Development policies -- Sub-Saharan Africa; Technical assistance -- Developing countries -- Periodicals; Economic assistance -- Developing countries -- Periodicals; Developing countries -- Economic conditions -- Periodicals; 338.91091724
• DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2020.1836124
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0961-4524

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Innovating is vital to farmers in sub-Saharan Africa, to adapt to challenges and benefit from opportunities. Stakeholders' decisions to engage in innovation programmes are influenced by their perceptions. This article uses the Q-method application to investigate these perceptions along the swine value chain in Benin. Fifty-five statements were established with local stakeholders and then graded by 25 interviewees on an 11-grade scale. Three main discourses were identified: an optimistic discourse tied to an endogenous vision of innovation, and a pessimistic one to a top-down, exogenous vision. A third discourse highlighted more nuanced redistributive effects of innovation. Innovation platform projects, stimulating local innovation, should rest on and reinforce the first optimistic discourse.