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De Gruyter Handbook of Rural Entrepreneurship in Developing Economies
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Abstract

This chapter proposes a new framework to explain the dynamics and processes of value chain optimisation in a turbulent environment. Thus, this chapter aggregates and integrates insights from the literature on turbulent environment, agricultural value chains, and rural enterprise to explain the strategies and resources deployed by smallholder farmers to overcome the constraints and challenges of infrastructural decay, institutional instability, market volatility, and conflict in the drive to create and capture optimal value from agricultural produce. The propositions of the new framework are then used to elucidate the patterns and strategies for smallholder activity in the turbulent environment of Nigeria, where economic activities have been hampered by decades of terrorist violence, farmers-herdsmen conflict, derelict infrastructure, and market volatility.

Abstract

This chapter proposes a new framework to explain the dynamics and processes of value chain optimisation in a turbulent environment. Thus, this chapter aggregates and integrates insights from the literature on turbulent environment, agricultural value chains, and rural enterprise to explain the strategies and resources deployed by smallholder farmers to overcome the constraints and challenges of infrastructural decay, institutional instability, market volatility, and conflict in the drive to create and capture optimal value from agricultural produce. The propositions of the new framework are then used to elucidate the patterns and strategies for smallholder activity in the turbulent environment of Nigeria, where economic activities have been hampered by decades of terrorist violence, farmers-herdsmen conflict, derelict infrastructure, and market volatility.

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Dedication V
  3. De Gruyter Handbooks in Business, Economics and Finance VII
  4. Contents IX
  5. List of Contributors XIII
  6. Chapter 1 An Introduction 1
  7. Section 1: Entrepreneurship and Regional Development in an African Context
  8. Chapter 2 Witnessing Rural Development Challenges Within Africa: Social and Institutional Reflections from Ghana and Nigeria 27
  9. Chapter 3 Rural Youth Enterprise Programmes in Developing Countries: A Case Study of Nigerian Government-Initiated and Government-Funded Programmes 49
  10. Chapter 4 Scaling Up or Not – That Is the Question: Rural Entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa 69
  11. Chapter 5 The Relationship Between Entrepreneurship Training and Emancipation of Rural Women: How Does It Differ According to Marital Status? 81
  12. Chapter 6 The Role of Women Entrepreneurs in the Egyptian Rural Context: An Institutional Perspective 101
  13. Chapter 7 Business Model Canvas of Rural Micro-women Entrepreneurs in Ghana 121
  14. Chapter 8 Collective Rural Entrepreneurship to Valorise Origin-Linked Products: A Study in Ghana 143
  15. Chapter 9 Value Chain Optimisation for Rural Enterprises in a Turbulent Environment 163
  16. Section 2: Entrepreneurship and Regional Development in a Developed World Context
  17. Chapter 10 ‘Bees Are Family’: Beekeeping Artisans Influencing Rural Entrepreneurship in Kosovo 183
  18. Chapter 11 Rural Social Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies: Auto-ethnographic Research from Sabah, Malaysia 201
  19. Chapter 12 Partition, Policy and Migration: Rural Entrepreneurship and the Development of Sports Goods Clusters in Northern India 217
  20. Chapter 13 Methodological Framework to Address the Agricultural Entrepreneurship Process 235
  21. Chapter 14 Exploring the Links Between Organised Crime, Geo-politics and Regional Development in a North African and Developing Country Context 253
  22. Section 3: Lessons Learned in Relation to Rural Entrepreneurship in Developing Economies from a Research, Policy and Practice perspective
  23. Chapter 15 Afterword: What Have We Learned from the Chapters? 271
  24. Index
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110755077-009

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Dedication V
  3. De Gruyter Handbooks in Business, Economics and Finance VII
  4. Contents IX
  5. List of Contributors XIII
  6. Chapter 1 An Introduction 1
  7. Section 1: Entrepreneurship and Regional Development in an African Context
  8. Chapter 2 Witnessing Rural Development Challenges Within Africa: Social and Institutional Reflections from Ghana and Nigeria 27
  9. Chapter 3 Rural Youth Enterprise Programmes in Developing Countries: A Case Study of Nigerian Government-Initiated and Government-Funded Programmes 49
  10. Chapter 4 Scaling Up or Not – That Is the Question: Rural Entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa 69
  11. Chapter 5 The Relationship Between Entrepreneurship Training and Emancipation of Rural Women: How Does It Differ According to Marital Status? 81
  12. Chapter 6 The Role of Women Entrepreneurs in the Egyptian Rural Context: An Institutional Perspective 101
  13. Chapter 7 Business Model Canvas of Rural Micro-women Entrepreneurs in Ghana 121
  14. Chapter 8 Collective Rural Entrepreneurship to Valorise Origin-Linked Products: A Study in Ghana 143
  15. Chapter 9 Value Chain Optimisation for Rural Enterprises in a Turbulent Environment 163
  16. Section 2: Entrepreneurship and Regional Development in a Developed World Context
  17. Chapter 10 ‘Bees Are Family’: Beekeeping Artisans Influencing Rural Entrepreneurship in Kosovo 183
  18. Chapter 11 Rural Social Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies: Auto-ethnographic Research from Sabah, Malaysia 201
  19. Chapter 12 Partition, Policy and Migration: Rural Entrepreneurship and the Development of Sports Goods Clusters in Northern India 217
  20. Chapter 13 Methodological Framework to Address the Agricultural Entrepreneurship Process 235
  21. Chapter 14 Exploring the Links Between Organised Crime, Geo-politics and Regional Development in a North African and Developing Country Context 253
  22. Section 3: Lessons Learned in Relation to Rural Entrepreneurship in Developing Economies from a Research, Policy and Practice perspective
  23. Chapter 15 Afterword: What Have We Learned from the Chapters? 271
  24. Index
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