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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
social sciences
Developing capacity for agricultural market chain innovation: Experience with the 'PMCA' in Uganda
Journal of International Development, Volume 22, No. 3, Year 2010
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The Participatory Market Chain Approach (PMCA) was developed originally to foster pro-poor innovation in potato market chains in the Andean highlands of South America. After promising results in Peru and Bolivia, two questions emerged: (1) Could the PMCA be successfully used to stimulate innovation outside the Andes and in other commodity chains? (2) What would it take to successfully introduce and apply the PMCA in a new setting? The first test application of the approach outside of the Andes was in Uganda. This paper outlines how the PMCA was developed in the Andes and its main features. It then describes the strategies used to introduce the PMCA to Uganda and some of the results to date. The Ugandan experience indicates that the PMCA can, in fact, stimulate technological and institutional innovation in locally relevant agricultural commodity chains in Africa. Since the PMCA requires researchers and development professionals to work in new ways with diverse stakeholders, including not only small farmers but also market agents and policy makers, its successful introduction requires an intensive capacity-development process that fosters the development of social networks, changes in attitudes, and the acquisition of social as well as technical knowledge and skills. © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Authors & Co-Authors
Horton, Douglas E.
Unknown Affiliation
Akello, Beatrice
Uganda, Mukono
National Agricultural Research Organisation Naro
Aliguma, Lucy
Unknown Affiliation
Bernet, Thomas
Switzerland
Research Institute of Organic Agriculture Fibl
Devaux, André
Peru, Lima
Centro Internacional de la Papa, Peru
Lemaga, Berga
Uganda, Kampala
International Potato Centre
Magala, Damalie Babirye
Uganda, Mukono
National Agricultural Research Organisation Naro
Mayanja, Sarah
Unknown Affiliation
Sekitto, Immaculate
Uganda, Kampala
Vredesilanden (veco)
Thiele, Graham
Peru, Lima
Centro Internacional de la Papa, Peru
Velasco, Claudio
Bolivia, Cochabamba
International Potato Centre
Statistics
Citations: 45
Authors: 11
Affiliations: 6
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1002/jid.1694
ISSN:
09541748
e-ISSN:
10991328
Research Areas
Health System And Policy
Study Locations
Uganda