This chapter provides insights into the role of collaboration in transition processes in agriculture. It shows how collaboration can be conceptualized as a socio-technical innovation, based on the in-depth analysis of three initiatives (machinery rings in eastern Scotland, CRIE Montado in Portugal...

This chapter demonstrates how farmer interests in Australia are protected. There are several mechanisms with which farmers' interests are protected in Australia. These include rural politics, farmers' own organizations and overall conducive institutional arrangements and government policies.

This chapter discusses the drivers of investment for farm-level capital formation and in agro-industry. It also discusses the public-private complementarity in investment, as well as policies and the enabling environment for investment. Drivers of farm-level investment discussed include household...

This chapter describes the current institutional framework of the Serbian agricultural sector, beginning with a brief account of the key historical developments that have influenced this framework. Specifically, it examines institutional developments that have implications for the alignment of...

This chapter shows that poverty reduction and achievement of the Millenium Development Goals, hereunder poverty reduction and food security, are professed priorities for governments in sub-Saharan Africa. In order to attain them, governments have declared an ambition to facilitate private sector...

This chapter covers group culture and its importance for the successful participation of smallholders in the export market, using Kenyan French bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) value chains as an example. Although associations in Kenya are widespread among small-scale horticultural farmers, mainly with...

This chapter considers the background for potential tensions between the interests of agencies working under upward accountability and the interests of their staff working on the ground, facing conflicting demands for participation from local and donor interests. The need for positive communication ...

This chapter looks at the introduction of market gardening as an alternative enterprise for beneficiaries of the Upper Mandrare River Basin Development Project (PHBM) in Madagascar. Also discussed is the introduction of Moringa oleifera in the Upper Mandrare River Basin and the formation of...

This chapter describes the livestock-related activities implemented under the Upper Mandrare River Basin Development Project (PHBM) in Madagascar. These included: interventions in animal health (vaccination, parasite control, veterinary products and services); the formation of livestock...

This chapter discusses the rehabilitation and construction of irrigation schemes and the creation and strengthening of water users' associations under the Upper Mandrare River Basin Development Project (PHBM) in Madagascar.