Value created for small-scale farmers in an agroecology movement in the Eastern cape region of South Africa: an application of the value creation framework

Chanyau, Ludwig; Rosenberg, Eureta

Title: Value created for small-scale farmers in an agroecology movement in the Eastern cape region of South Africa: an application of the value creation framework
Creator: Chanyau, Ludwig
Creator: Rosenberg, Eureta
Subject: To be catalogued
Date Issued: 2024
Date: 2024
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/484286
Identifier: vital:78892
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1080/21683565.2023.2301023
Description: The paper reports on an evaluative study of an agroecology movement that has been running in South Africa for over 20 years. The study applied a Value Creation Framework to gather value creation stories from key movement members, farmers, trainers, and the involved organizations. Data was generated through storytelling interviews, document analysis and participant observations. The findings show that the functions of the movement are enabled by support from tertiary institutions, government departments, NGOs, international networks and the private sector. In the initial stages, the movement’s growth as measured by the uptake of agroecology faced resistance because the associated labor intensity, especially in the early stages and farmers considered it to be very slow compared to conventional methods. However, the movement’s mobilization through open dialogs, co-creation and farmer-centered learning approaches has seen a gradual and wide adoption of agroecology practices by over 2700 new and existing farmers in the Eastern Cape alone, thereby widening the learning and seed-sharing network. In the communities it has reached, the movement has registered transformational gains in biodiversity preservation, social cohesion, market power, gender equality and food security.
Format: 27 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems
Relation: Chanyau, L., and Rosenberg, E. (2024). Value created for small-scale farmers in an agroecology movement in the Eastern cape region of South Africa: an application of the value creation framework. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 48(3), 382–409. https://doi.org/10.1080/21683565.2023.2301023
Relation: Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems volume 48 number 3 382 409 2024 2168-3573
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