Entering value chains and treadmills - Colourful thesis presentation
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Entering value chains and treadmills:An exploration of problems and arrangements in corn and bean production in South- Eastern Nicaragua
Msc Thesis presentation for MID by Ramona Langanki
Supervisor: Gerard Verschoor
Outline
1: Setting & research problem
2: Theory and concepts for a value chain
3: Research Question
4: Methodology and methods
5: Results problem analysis
6: Conclusion
7: Discussion
Theory and concepts for a value chain
Production Trade Wholesale
Actor Network Theory
●Rethinking taken for granted ideas
●Reveal complexities
●Look at context
Value Chain of corn and beans
•Knowledge •Enforced laws •Infrastructure •Information • Resources •Inputs •Stated & Underlying goals •Paradigms •Skills •Capacities •Networks •History & Past experiences •Negotiation • Persuasion& Propaganda •Consciousness
•Conventions •Rules •Power •Trust
Production Trade Wholesale
Research Question
How do actors in value chains of corn and beans frame problems with production and distribution, and how does this affect their strategies and interventions in the chain?
Methodology and methods
Case Study
Qualitative methods
Semi-structured interviews with farmers, traders, supporting actors
Participant observation
Event analysis
Videos, photos, voice recordings
Casual conversations
Conclusion
Farmers feel a treadmill and proposed solutions do not fit
Supporting actors see expert solutions as remedy for everything
They web into each others’ projects to reach underlying goals
Finding experiments of people that are not connected to any institutions. The picture is more diverse than suggested by technical problem focus with value chain analysis
Various actors are not reflective about their paradigms