Mapping stakeholders’ viewpoints on innovation along a livestock value chain: a Q method application

Benoît Govoeyi, Serge G. Ahounou, Pascal S. Kiki, Ignace O. Dotché, Nassim Moula, Issaka Youssao Abdou Karim and Nicolas Antoine-Moussiaux

Development in Practice, 2021, vol. 31, issue 2, 214-225

Abstract: Innovating is vital to farmers in sub-Saharan Africa, to adapt to challenges and benefit from opportunities. Stakeholders’ decisions to engage in innovation programmes are influenced by their perceptions. This article uses the Q-method application to investigate these perceptions along the swine value chain in Benin. Fifty-five statements were established with local stakeholders and then graded by 25 interviewees on an 11-grade scale. Three main discourses were identified: an optimistic discourse tied to an endogenous vision of innovation, and a pessimistic one to a top-down, exogenous vision. A third discourse highlighted more nuanced redistributive effects of innovation. Innovation platform projects, stimulating local innovation, should rest on and reinforce the first optimistic discourse.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2020.1836124

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