Relational governance and value distribution of the cotton chain in Cameroon

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  • Author
  • Michel FOK
  • English title of the work
  • Relational governance and value distribution of the cotton chain in Cameroon
  • Title of the work
  • Relational governance and value distribution of the cotton chain in Cameroon
  • Year of publication
  • 2021?
  • Author's email
  • michel.fok@cirad.fr
  • Journal or magazine
  • Submitted to Journal of Development Studies
  • Miscellaneous extra information
  • Paper under review
  • Publisher's address
  • 3 Plan des chanterelles
  • Countries concerned
  • Cameroon
  • Associated thesauruses
  • Colire
  • Keywords Colire
  • Association types
    Professional associations
    Cotton producers' groups
    Associative sustainability
    Associative governance
    Associations' activities
    Association & input supply
    Association & sector management
    Association & marketing management
    Association & service supply
    Interprofessional management sustainability
    Roles of farmers' institutions
    Interprofession funding mechanism
    Interprofession status and rules
    Activities managed by interprofession
    Sector management of seedcotton ginning
    Sector management of input credit
    Regional factors of specificities
    African specificities
    Country factors of specificities
    Country factors of specificities
    Assessment models and modelling
    Assessment methods
    Role of parastatal organizations
    Monopoly
    Influence of private sector
    Public/private partnership
    Local garment industry
    Textile industry
    Local cottonseed oil industry
    Oilseed crushing industry
    Dependence alleviation on exportation of cotton
    Exportation dependence
    Raw material exportation
    Role in balance of trade
    Balance of trade
    Contribution to GDP
    GDP
    Contribution to tax income
    Tax income revenue
    Employment at cotton production
    Hired labour
    Rural employment
    Cotton and economic development
    Economic development
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  • Abstract
  • In West and Central Africa, the economic and social importance of cotton production used to be claimed, but the indicators put forward were not updated and seldom connected to a governance analysis. This paper compensates for that lack by analysing the governance and the value distribution of the cotton chain in Cameroon in the 2017-18 season. The cotton chain operated under explicit contractual agreements between the cotton company and the cotton producer organizations at village and national level, covering the aspects of the marketing of farmers’ production, the provision of production inputs, the fixing of prices for inputs and outputs, as well as compensation of the producer organization for taking over the tasks traditionally assumed by the cotton company. Overall, in a chain contributing 0.6% to GDP, governance rules were favourable to farmers/villagers in terms of income and task remuneration. However, the mostly small-scale farmers were the only actors bearing the cost of their landlocked situation. Social spill-over resulted from villagers’ initiatives in using their collective income, notably in favour of their children’s education. The case studied highlights the relevance of the concept of relational governance that could involve more than two entities and give rise to social spill-over.
  • English abstract
  • In West and Central Africa, the economic and social importance of cotton production used to be claimed, but the indicators put forward were not updated and seldom connected to a governance analysis. This paper compensates for that lack by analysing the governance and the value distribution of the cotton chain in Cameroon in the 2017-18 season. The cotton chain operated under explicit contractual agreements between the cotton company and the cotton producer organizations at village and national level, covering the aspects of the marketing of farmers’ production, the provision of production inputs, the fixing of prices for inputs and outputs, as well as compensation of the producer organization for taking over the tasks traditionally assumed by the cotton company. Overall, in a chain contributing 0.6% to GDP, governance rules were favourable to farmers/villagers in terms of income and task remuneration. However, the mostly small-scale farmers were the only actors bearing the cost of their landlocked situation. Social spill-over resulted from villagers’ initiatives in using their collective income, notably in favour of their children’s education. The case studied highlights the relevance of the concept of relational governance that could involve more than two entities and give rise to social spill-over.