The Creation and Trade of Value in the Coffee Value Chain in Uganda
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Date
2016
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AGRI-QUEST
Abstract
Stakeholder
theory focuses on the creation and trade of
value and how stakeholders jointly interact to
create this value. What is still largely
unexplored however is how stakeholders can
create and trade this value? Moreover, how is
value given sense to and made sense of and
how do stakeholders interpret the concept of
value?
Method: This was tested through interviewing
stakeholders in the coffee value chain in
Uganda, alongside supporting documents to
triangulate the empirical data found.
Findings: Stakeholders seems to enable
creation and trade of value by coffee
production improvements, farmers’ income
enhancement and social environment
utilization of stakeholders. Inhibiting factors are
suggested to be the characteristics of farmers
and resource limitations faced by stakeholders.
Most sensegiving efforts of production
education, Training of Trainees and example
farms are suggested to come from
cooperatives and external actors and were
either accepted or rejected by chain actors.
Stakeholders interpret value differently as
cooperatives and external actors’ utility
function seem to be driven by economic, social
and ecological values whereas chain actors
were more driven by economic and social
values.
Implications: This research has shed more
light on how stakeholders create and trade
value, the concept of value, and how value is
given sense to and made sense of. This has
implications stakeholder theory researchers
and practitioners active in cooperatives or
external roles in agricultural chains as well as
wider implications for other sectors and
countries.
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Keywords
Creation, Trade, Value, Coffee Value Chain
Citation
van Honstede, M., Wickert, C., Katamba, D., & Seruma, A. (2016). AGRI-QUEST. https://knowledge4food.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Agri-Quest-Research-Paper-Series-No4_van-Honstede-et-al_2016.pdf