Projektnummer

0059117

Zusammenfassung

This proposal on the shea industry is an outcome of an ongoing project (2012-2015) financed by the Volkswagen Foundation ('Value Chains: Peasant's Autonomy and Capture in Times of Increasing Integration on Global Food Markets in Northern Region of Ghana' - 86617). The findings constitute the basis for this project as new research questions have come up during the research process. In terms of policy implications it can be argued that a careful exploration of the dynamics in the global shea value chain, the emerging governance forms and the co-formation of the institutional framework is...