Journal
JOURNAL OF RURAL STUDIES
Volume 51, Issue -, Pages 198-210Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2017.03.004
Keywords
Export intensification; Social networks; Rent seeking; Smallholder farming systems; Collective action
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- Canadian International Food Security Research Fund [106525-002]
- program of Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Ottawa, Canada
- Government of Canada through Global Affairs Canada
- IDRC Doctoral Research Award, McGill University
- Schulich Graduate Fellowship, McGill University
- Sustainable Agriculture Scholarship, McGill University
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The role played by various institutions in the domestic agri-food systems of Caribbean nations has become an increasingly important area of research and policy attention. This paper assesses the main policies that have been implemented in Saint Lucia's agri-food system over two time periods (pre-1950 and 1950 to 2010), and analyzes their influence on formal and informal institutions. Results suggest that rule convergence in export (formal) and domestic (informal) agricultural production systems displaced informal institutions to a lower position in the institutional hierarchy. This institutional change has reduced interactions between farming community members, with negative implications for bonding and bridging social capital in the domestic food production system. Collectively, these changes have resulted in unintended outcomes associated with the decline of many rural communities. Our findings highlight the need to better identify bridging institutions in Saint Lucia's domestic agri-food sector that could help support shared rule-making, the decentralization of power and reciprocal knowledge flows amongst policy actors. (C) 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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