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Addressing poverty through Inclusion in Global Production Chains: Who wants it ?. Joy Clancy , Victoria Marin-Burgos and Avinash Narayanaswamy University of Twente, The Netherlands. Approach. 2 cases related to biofuels GPCs: Colombia & India Secondary data from Brazil - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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ADDRESSING POVERTY THROUGH INCLUSION IN GLOBAL PRODUCTION CHAINS: WHO WANTS IT?Joy Clancy , Victoria Marin-Burgos and Avinash Narayanaswamy
University of Twente, The Netherlands
APPROACH
2 cases related to biofuels GPCs: Colombia & India
Secondary data from Brazil Confronting notions:
‘inclusion in GPCs is good for and wanted by the poor’‘not wanted by smallholders’
Our position: more complex We use Granovetter (embeddedness in
economic tansactions); political ecology (power relations & languages of valuation); inclusion is multi-dimensional (economic; political; social); agency
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PALM OIL IN COLOMBIA
‘inclusive businesses’ strategy seeks to integrate small-scale farmers in GPCs.
contract farming arrangements (“productive alliances”)
Associations of small- and medium-scale land holders (supply allies) into the bottom-end of a supply chain of a palm oil extraction company (anchor company)
25 year contract for exclusive supply Farmers commit land and buy palms plus
technical support from anchor – often with loans.
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WHO WANTS IT?
2000 – 2010 25% new plantations was ‘productive alliances’
Those opting for inclusion are not homogeneous
Ex-plantation workers – with knowledge of palm – good income opportunity
Farmers previously involved in the illicit coca cultivation – provides legitimacy
Landowning urban dwellers – better rents from their land
Smallholders with ‘no alternative’ – historically marginalised in Colombia – linked to ‘war on drugs’
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WHO DOESN’T WANT IT?
Peasant farmers – with subsistence traditions Palm oil is alien to their production methods Afraid of undermining food security & tying
them to big companies Plus change to landscape - undermines their
cultural identity with the land
Farmers thrown off land they farm under ‘traditional arrangements’Tenant farmersFarmers on state land
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BIODIESEL IN INDIA
Bio-diesel feedstock is to be grown only on degraded forest and non-forest lands – not to undermine food security
Also what are classified as ‘waste’ lands Social inclusion, particularly for women and
landless people, is a priority Farmers have right to decide what to do with
seeds Tamil Nadu – jatropha – major problems given
the crop a ‘bad name’
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HASSAN BIOFUEL PARK KARNATAKA
Biofuels Park - awareness raising with villagers Bio-diesel crops only for supplementing income
not as main source Use bunds and hedges (mainly men) and
backyards (women) – traditional practice Indigenous non-edible species – multiple
varieties to ensure all year round seed availability and income
Each village has committee – men and women Oil mainly goes for local use – despite the
project negotiating a ‘good deal’ for farmers
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WHO WANTS IT?
Some men – additional income (may be around 10% additional)
Women – new opportunity to earn money where men are not already involved
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INCLUSION/EXCLUSION – MORE THAN TERMS OF INCORPORATION
We identified 4 factors influencing inclusion/exclusion:
the role of the government; the degree of rural people’s control over
institutions and processes; culture and identity with place and
landscape; the role of third parties
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ROLE OF GOVERNMENT
Political choices in framing of support Colombia – political agenda related to drugs India – social inclusion of particular
marginalised groups Farmers end-up trapped at low-value end of
chain – often on adverse terms of incorporation
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RURAL PEOPLE’S CONTROL OVER INSTITUTIONS AND PROCESSES
Colombia – little influence – even the RSPO participation has been difficult
India – village committees have control over seeds
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LANGUAGE OF VALUATION
Business uses language of the market – land as economic good
Despite CSR – Colombian Palm Companies don’t listen to smallholders
India – government in Delhi classifies huge areas of land as ‘waste’ – this is not the view of villagers
Land is valued by rural people in terms of livelihoods understood as a source of identity
Biofuels business models tend to promote ‘cultural exclusion’
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THIRD PARTY SUPPORT
Rural people use their agency for inclusion or exclusion
They are often politically excluded so third party organisations can be crucial to overcome this
NGOs – for getting good terms of inclusion based on practices which do not promote cultural exclusion
Outside actors & the courts for up-holding rights
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CONCLUSIONS – WHO WANTS TO BE INCLUDED/EXCLUDED AND WHY?
Too simplistic to say ‘terms of incorporation’ People have their own motivations - beyond
economic goals People also have agency Non-chain actors also are important Contribution of our work: cultural values as a
major determinant in opting for inclusion or exclusion.
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