The study focuses on the role of household head gender in side selling, which is important, given the centrality of women to African agriculture. The study provides important information on what influences cooperative member side selling and focuses on specific types of side-selling behavior that have been largely overlooked. Future research should include qualitative methods to better understand motivations for side-selling behavior. In addition, this study lacks qualitative data supporting quantitative findings. Farmers who only sell to non-cooperative buyers are poorer and less invested in coffee than non-side sellers.ДЄdditional research is needed to better understand why side-selling behavior differs between groups and to better understand how household head gender influences side selling. Using data from a survey of Burundian coffee farmers, we assess the determinants of two types of cooperative member side-selling behavior: selling to both cooperative and non-cooperative buyers and selling solely to non-cooperative buyers.ДЇarmers who sell to both cooperative and non-cooperative buyers are more likely to be male household heads, be more invested in coffee and have larger farms than non-side sellers, among other characteristics. This is a problem in Burundi, where many households earn income from coffee and cooperatives serve a collective action function. Cooperative member side selling, in which farmers divert produce from cooperatives to competitors, threatens coffee cooperatives. This study aims to improve our understanding of side selling in farmer cooperatives.

L'importance de l'accompagnement basГ© sur un processus d'apprentissage collectif est discutГ©e.

Un plan d'action a Г©tГ© recommandГ© afin de mettre en oeuvre des solutions possibles. Suite aux 12 sГ©ances de travail conjoint entre agriculteurs et chercheurs, trois facteurs liГ©s au travail ont Г©tГ© identifiГ©s comme limitants pour le dГ©veloppement de la chaГ®ne de valeur du cafГ© de qualitГ© au BrГ©sil : manque de main-d'oeuvre, manque de technologies adaptГ©es et difficultГ©s de succession de l'exploitation familiale. La mГ©thodologie d'intervention trans/formatrice a Г©tГ© mobilisГ©e dans la dГ©marche d'accompagnement des agriculteurs dans leur rГ©flexion. A travers le cas des petits producteurs de cafГ© au BrГ©sil engagГ©s dans le changement de la production du cafГ© conventionnel vers le cafГ© de qualitГ©, notre objectif est d'identifier les facteurs limitants pour le dГ©veloppement de la chaГ®ne de valeur du cafГ© de qualitГ© au BrГ©sil dans la perspective des agriculteurs. Accompagner les agriculteurs dans ces changements est un dГ©fi pour chercheurs, Г©tudiants et professionnels. NГ©anmoins, la transition de la production conventionnelle vers la production Г haute valeur ajoutГ©e demande des changements dans les pratiques de production. La diffГ©rentiation des produits et l'inclusion des petits agriculteurs dans des chaГ®nes de valeur sont prГ©sentГ©s comme alternative Г la production des produits conventionnels du marchГ© commodity.

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