[ Evaluation de la performance multidimensionnelle des Organisations de Producteurs (OP) dans les régions Camerounaise et Tchadienne du Bassin du Lac Tchad ]
Volume 39, Issue 3, May 2023, Pages 1378–1395
Julie Fabiola Njambe1, Placide Zoungrana2, and Coffie Francis José N’Guessan3
1 Université Félix-Houphouët BOIGNY, Centre d’Excellence Africain en Changement Climatique, Biodiversité et Agriculture Durable (CEA-CCBAD), Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
2 Université Félix-Houphouët BOIGNY, Centre Ivoirien de Recherches Economiques et Sociales, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
3 Université Félix-Houphouët BOIGNY, Centre Ivoirien de Recherches Economiques et Sociales, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
Original language: French
Copyright © 2023 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Modern Farmer Organizations (FOs) since the 90s have been advocated as solutions to the problems of small producers, particularly in the Cameroonian and Chadian regions of the Lake Chad Basin which have been affected by several security and environmental crises. Despite the proliferation of this organisations in the area, till date, the trend in the region reveals that FOs are underperforming and unsustainable. Adopting a multidimensional approach to assess the performance of 51 FOs in the study area and profile successful FOs, we built a composite performance indicator of FOs using multiple correspondent analysis. The Ascending hierarchical cluster method was used to classify producers by performance. The results show that 8.94% of producers are in good-performance FOs, 51.4% in medium-performance FOs and 39.66% in poor-performance FOs. The success profile of FOs shows that the factors that contribute most to their performance are having: experienced office members, a manager with good level of education, resources coming from diversified activities, a well-structured leadership and a motivation oriented towards diversification, storage or processing. FOs in rural areas, FOs led by women and Groups in Chad are the most affected by the performance problem. The heaviest constraints as perceived by low-performing FOs are related to the lack of capital and flood problems, while successful FOs complaint about low prices in the market and climate change.
Author Keywords: Farmer organisation, cooperative, multidimensional performance, composite indicator, multiple correspondence analysis, success profile.
Volume 39, Issue 3, May 2023, Pages 1378–1395
Julie Fabiola Njambe1, Placide Zoungrana2, and Coffie Francis José N’Guessan3
1 Université Félix-Houphouët BOIGNY, Centre d’Excellence Africain en Changement Climatique, Biodiversité et Agriculture Durable (CEA-CCBAD), Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
2 Université Félix-Houphouët BOIGNY, Centre Ivoirien de Recherches Economiques et Sociales, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
3 Université Félix-Houphouët BOIGNY, Centre Ivoirien de Recherches Economiques et Sociales, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
Original language: French
Copyright © 2023 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Modern Farmer Organizations (FOs) since the 90s have been advocated as solutions to the problems of small producers, particularly in the Cameroonian and Chadian regions of the Lake Chad Basin which have been affected by several security and environmental crises. Despite the proliferation of this organisations in the area, till date, the trend in the region reveals that FOs are underperforming and unsustainable. Adopting a multidimensional approach to assess the performance of 51 FOs in the study area and profile successful FOs, we built a composite performance indicator of FOs using multiple correspondent analysis. The Ascending hierarchical cluster method was used to classify producers by performance. The results show that 8.94% of producers are in good-performance FOs, 51.4% in medium-performance FOs and 39.66% in poor-performance FOs. The success profile of FOs shows that the factors that contribute most to their performance are having: experienced office members, a manager with good level of education, resources coming from diversified activities, a well-structured leadership and a motivation oriented towards diversification, storage or processing. FOs in rural areas, FOs led by women and Groups in Chad are the most affected by the performance problem. The heaviest constraints as perceived by low-performing FOs are related to the lack of capital and flood problems, while successful FOs complaint about low prices in the market and climate change.
Author Keywords: Farmer organisation, cooperative, multidimensional performance, composite indicator, multiple correspondence analysis, success profile.
Abstract: (french)
Les Organisations de producteurs (OP) modernes depuis les années 90s ont été prônés comme solutions aux problèmes des petits producteurs en particulier dans les régions camerounaises et tchadiennes de bassin du Lac Tchad qui ont été affectées par plusieurs crises sécuritaires et environnementales. Malgré le pullulement de ses organisations dans la zone depuis lors, les tendances révèlent que les OP sont peu performantes et peu viables. Adoptant une approche multidimensionnelle pour évaluer la performance de 51 OP et faire un profilage des OP à succès, nous avons construit un indicateur composite de performance des OP au moyen de l’analyse des correspondances multiples. La méthode de classification ascendante hiérarchique a été utilisé pour ranger les producteurs par classe de performance. Les résultats montrent que 8.94% des producteurs sont dans des OP à bonne performance, 51.4% dans des OP à performance moyenne et 39.66% dans des OP à faible performance. Le profilage montre que les facteurs qui contribuent le plus à la performance sont avoir: des membres de bureau expérimentés, un dirigeant qui a un bon niveau d’instruction, des ressources qui proviennent de plusieurs activités, un leadership bien structuré et une motivation orientée vers la diversification, le stockage ou la transformation. Les OP dans la zone rurale, les OP dirigés par des femmes et les Groupements au Tchad sont les plus touchés par le problème de performance. Les contraintes les plus pesantes tels que perçu par les OP à faible performances sont liés à l’insuffisance du capital et la survenance d’inondation par contre les OP performantes se plaignent des bas prix sur le marché et le changement climatiques.
Author Keywords: Organisation de producteurs, coopératives, performance multidimensionnelle, indicateur composite, analyse des correspondances multiples, profil de succès.
How to Cite this Article
Julie Fabiola Njambe, Placide Zoungrana, and Coffie Francis José N’Guessan, “Assessment of Farmer Organizations (FOs) multidimensional performance in the Cameroonian and Chadian regions of the Lake Chad Basin,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 1378–1395, May 2023.
