Multi-scale governance in agriculture systems : interplay between national and local institutions around the production dimension of food security in Mali

Sidibe, AmadouTotin, EdmondThompson-Hall, MaryTraoré, Oumar T.Sibiry Traoré, Pierre C.Schmitt Olabisi, Laura2020-03-242020-03-242017-09-29http://hdl.handle.net/10625/58692Overall, ensuring food security may require a synergy of interventions – the use of innovative agricultural technologies alongside the creation of an enabling institutional environment. This paper aims to contribute to the diagnostic of institutional variety across scales. It aims at understanding what institutional logics at different scales are “good at” in terms of creating and sustaining enabling institutional environments for food production and subsequent food security. What is the mechanism through which conducive institutional conditions are created that could enable increases in productivity? The paper documents the institutional logics of three case studies.application/pdfenAGRICULTURAL SYSTEMSLOCAL FOOD SYSTEMSLOCAL GOVERNANCESEMI-ARID REGIONSCOTTONFARMERS ASSOCIATIONSCOOPERATIVESNATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENTINSTITUTIONAL CHANGEMALISOUTH OF SAHARAMulti-scale governance in agriculture systems : interplay between national and local institutions around the production dimension of food security in MaliJournal Article (peer-reviewed)