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Page: 5Author: marcelacely Subject: HighlightDate: 3/13/23, 14:26:58 change in value-chain participation for small producers
Page: 6Author: marcelacely Subject: HighlightDate: 3/13/23, 14:36:00 Bolwig et al., 2009).
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‘poverty’ itself is a political and moral, not an
analytical, term.
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Livelihoods. Value-chain studies tend to focus on the incomes and assets
associated with the relevant chain, while other sources of wealth get less
attention.
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households participate in multiple value
chains. This involves the possibility that income earned in one value chain may be
invested in another chain, but also that different chains compete for the same household
resources.
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the nature of a household’s
participation in a given value chain depends not only on its resource endowments and
the returns and risks from participation, but also on how it affects overall household
resource allocation, income, risk and benefit distribution.
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The most prominent of these, of course, is cash
income, but this is only one of the kinds of resource
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Non-monetary kinds of income are important, as are other kinds of resources
or
assets (land, labour, skills, capital, etc.) that can be central to the generation of value.
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consider
whether the impacts are increasing or decreasing income and resources
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what Sen famously
called the human ‘capabilities’ to achieve various ‘beings and doings’ or ‘functionings
Page: 7Author: marcelacely Subject: HighlightDate: 3/13/23, 14:53:25 researchers can get a more
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direct understanding of the poverty and wellbeing impacts by noting the extent to which
want or material lack undermines the ability of the people concerned to actually
achieve adequate nutrition, health, shelter, clothing, education and so on (for example,
Klasen, 2000).
Page: 8Author: marcelacely Subject: HighlightDate: 3/13/23, 14:53:44 Chronic, persistent and structural poverty.
Page: 8Author: marcelacely Subject: HighlightDate: 3/13/23, 14:58:25 if farmers hit by exchange-
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rate fluctuations can respond quickly by changing the nature of the inputs on which they
rely, or can easily find resources that allow them to afford more expensive ones
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Where a
system is sensitive and not resilient, it is vulnerable; where it is resilient and not
sensitive, it is robust
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the extent to which value-chain governance and restructuring lock
participants into reliance on a system that is disproportionately sensitive to shocks, and
what measures might allow recovery