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dc.contributor.authorMuilerman, S.
dc.contributor.authorVellema, S.
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-04T11:04:27Z
dc.date.available2019-12-04T11:04:27Z
dc.date.issued2016-10
dc.identifier.citationMuilerman, S. & Vellema, S. (2016). Scaling service delivery in a failed state: cocoa smallholders, Farmer Field Schools, persistent bureaucrats and institutional work in Côte d’Ivoire. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 15(1), 1-16.
dc.identifier.issn1473-5903
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12478/1432
dc.descriptionAuthor Addendum Article; Published online: 27 October 2016
dc.description.abstractThe increased use of sustainability standards in the international trade in cocoa challenges companies to find effective modes of service delivery to large numbers of small-scale farmers. A case study of the Sustainable Tree Crops Program targeting the small-scale cocoa producers in Côte d’Ivoire supplying international commodity markets shifts attention from mechanisms of private governance to the embedding of service delivery in the institutional dynamics of the state. It demonstrates that, despite a recent history of violent conflict and civil unrest, the introduced Farmer Field Schools programme achieved a surprising scale in terms of numbers and geographical spread. The analysis of this outcome combines political science and anthropological studies of effective and developmental elements in the state with the interest in institutional work found in organization science. The scaling of a new form of service delivery is explained by the skillful practices of institutional work by managers of a public–private partnership. They have been professionally associated with the sector for a long time and had the capacity to embed new forms of service delivery in persistent pockets of bureaucratic effectiveness in a failed state.
dc.format.extent1-16
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectCote D'Ivoire
dc.subjectFarmer Field Schools
dc.subjectGovernance
dc.subjectAgricultural Extension
dc.subjectBureaucracy
dc.subjectCocoa (Plant)
dc.subjectSmallholders
dc.titleScaling service delivery in a failed state: cocoa smallholders, Farmer Field Schools, persistent bureaucrats and institutional work in Côte d’Ivoire
dc.typeJournal Article
dc.description.versionPeer Review
cg.contributor.crpIntegrated Systems for the Humid Tropics
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Institute of Tropical Agriculture
cg.contributor.affiliationWageningen University and Research Centre
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionWest Africa
cg.coverage.countryCote D'Ivoire
cg.isijournalISI Journal
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research institute
cg.iitasubjectCocoa
cg.iitasubjectSmallholder Farmers
cg.journalInternational Journal of Agricultural Sustainability
cg.howpublishedFormally Published
cg.accessibilitystatusOpen Access
local.dspaceid79652
cg.targetaudienceScientists
cg.identifier.doihttps://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14735903.2016.1246274


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