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Multi-scale governance in agriculture systems: Interplay between national and local institutions around the production dimension of food security in Mali

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.njas.2017.09.001
10.1016/j.njas.2017.09.001
 
Title Multi-scale governance in agriculture systems: Interplay between national and local institutions around the production dimension of food security in Mali
 
Creator Sidibe, A
Totin, E
Thompson-Hall, M
Traore, O T
Traore, P C S
Olabisi, L S
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
Food Security
African Agriculture
Mali
 
Description Enforcement of rules and laws designed at the national level is still one of the dominant institutional mechanisms for effective multiscale governance in most countries. At times, such blanket regulations are not only unable to meet practical needs at local levels, but they may conflict with local institutional logics, thereby creating new challenges. This study looks at three institutional arrangements in the agriculture and food security sector in the district of Koutiala, Mali to analyse the institutional variety across scale and the underlying institutional logics. On one side, the Cooperative Law as well as the Seed Law both designed at national level to enable famers’ access to agriculture services and improved seeds have yielded mixed results with regard to anticipated outcomes. The cooperative law is believed to degrade the social cohesion and the mutual support on which vulnerable farmers rely when facing climatic and non-climatic risks whereas the new seed system is found onerous and unaffordable for farmers. On the other side, the local convention for the management of natural resources established as part of ongoing decentralised governance policy seems to resonate with local culture but challenged by other stakeholders. Through exploring these cases, this paper tests bricolage as an analytical framework for doing an institutional diagnostic. It aims at contributing to methodological and theoretical insights on the way sustainable institutions can be generated in conflicting institutional logics in the context of multi-scale governance.
 
Publisher Elsevier
 
Date 2018-03
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
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Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/10391/1/1-s2.0-S1573521417300143-main.pdf
Sidibe, A and Totin, E and Thompson-Hall, M and Traore, O T and Traore, P C S and Olabisi, L S (2018) Multi-scale governance in agriculture systems: Interplay between national and local institutions around the production dimension of food security in Mali. NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences (TSI), 84. pp. 94-102. ISSN 15735214