Stakeholder Collaboration in Climate-Smart Agricultural Production Innovations: Insights from the Cocoa Industry in Ghan
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Stakeholder Collaboration in Climate-Smart Agricultural Production Innovations: Insights from the Cocoa Industry in Ghana Fred A. Yamoah
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James S. Kaba2 Joseph Amankwah-Amoah3 Adolf Acquaye3 ●
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Received: 16 April 2020 / Accepted: 27 June 2020 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract Although collaboration is vital in addressing global environmental sustainability challenges, research understanding on stakeholder engagement in climate-smart production innovation adoption and implementation, remains limited. In this paper, we advance knowledge about stakeholder collaboration by examining the roles played by stakeholders in scaling-up ecological sustainability innovations. Using the illustrative context and case of green cocoa industry in Ghana, the analysis identified three distinctive phases of stakeholder engagement in ecological sustainability innovations implemented from 1960 to 2017. We highlight defining periods of ecological challenges encompassing the production recovery sustainability initiative phase solely driven by the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD)—a governmental body responsible for production, processing and marketing of cocoa, coffee and sheanut. During the period, major initiatives were driven by nongovernmental organisations in collaboration with COCOBOD to implement the climate-smart agriculture scheme in the cocoa sector. The findings have implications for cocoa production research and stakeholder collaboration in environmental innovations adoption. Keywords Stakeholder collaboration Environmental innovation Ecological sustainability Historical pathways Scaling up Cocoa industry ●
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Introduction In this era of increasingly environmental awareness, organisations and governments are increasingly recognising that reducing environmental degradations, waste and reversing deforestation require collaboration not only among businesses and governments but also including nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) (Green et al. 2012; Rondinelli and London 2003). As the global population continue to surge, increasingly pressures are also being exerted on production and natural resource exploitations (Asongu and Jingwa 2012). Past studies suggest that creating green national economies and green industries to
* Fred A. Yamoah [email protected] 1
Department of Management, Birkbeck-University of London, London, UK
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Department of Agroforestry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
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Kent Business School, University of Kent, Kent, UK
promote sustainability is essential (Amankwah-Amoah and Sarpong 2016; Asongu and Jingwa 2012). Thus, ecological sustainability improvement remains a major strategic imperative for industries and governments alike. In the global cocoa commodity chains and networks, this is no different (Bitzer et al. 2012; Ton et al. 2008). However, the current literature lacks any insights on how governments and other stakeholder collaboratively initiative a shift towards “green” in indu
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