Journal
OUTLOOK ON AGRICULTURE
Volume 43, Issue 3, Pages 157-163Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.5367/oa.2014.0179
Keywords
institutional bricolage; innovation platforms; rice production; water management; Benin
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- CoS-SIS programme - Directorate General for International Cooperation (DGIS) of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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In Benin, a combination of governmental programmes effectively stimulated rice intensification by providing relevant institutional arrangements such as subsidized seed, credit and a market outlet. In this paper, the authors investigate the institutional character of these programmes by unpacking the rules embedded in them and by showing how farmers mould, reject and change these rules or combine them with local rules - their practices of institutional bricolage. The authors show that the services provided by the programmes had great advantages for rice farmers, but they also had an exclusive character. Because of local bricolage practices, the programmes both affected rice production and helped the rice farmers to deal with conflicts over inequitable land allocation and discriminatory participation in canal cleaning. These findings contribute to discussion of the role of innovation platforms in the stimulation of institutional change and the provision of enabling conditions.
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