Abstract Global food security governance is fraught with fragmentation, overlap and complexity. While calls for coordination and coherence abound, establishing an inter-organizational order at this level seems to remain difficult. While the emphasis in the literature has so far been on the global level, we know less about dynamics of inter-organizational relations in food security governance at the country level, and empirical studies are lacking. It is this research gap the article seeks to address by posing the following research question: In how far does inter-organizational order develop in the organizational field of food security governance at the country level? Theoretically and conceptually, the article draws on sociological institutionalism, and on work on inter-organizational relations. Empirically, the article conducts an exploratory case study of the organizational field of food security governance in Côte d’Ivoire, building on a qualitative content analysis of organizational documents covering a period from 2003 to 2016 and semi-structured interviews with staff of international organizations from 2016. The article demonstrates that not all of the developments attributed to food security governance at the global level play out in the same way at the country level. Rather, in the case of Côte d’Ivoire there are signs for a certain degree of coherence between IOs in the field of food security governance and even for an – albeit limited – division of labour. However, this only holds for specific dimensions of the inter-organizational order and appears to be subject to continuous contestation and reinterpretation under the surface.

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不断发展的秩序？科特迪瓦粮食安全治理组织领域的组织间关系

摘要全球粮食安全治理充满了零散，重叠和复杂性。尽管要求协调和一致性的呼声很高，但在这一级别上建立组织间秩序似乎仍然很困难。尽管迄今为止文献的重点一直放在全球层面，但我们对国家层面的粮食安全治理中组织间关系的动态知之甚少，并且缺乏实证研究。本文试图通过提出以下研究问题来解决这一研究空白：国家层面的食品安全治理组织领域中组织间秩序发展到何种程度？从理论上和概念上，本文都借鉴了社会学制度主义以及有关组织间关系的工作。根据经验，本文对科特迪瓦的粮食安全治理组织领域进行了探索性案例研究，其基础是对2003年至2016年期间组织文件的定性内容分析，以及2016年以来对国际组织工作人员的半结构化访谈。该文章表明，并非所有归因于全球层面粮食安全治理的事态发展在国家层面上都发挥着相同的作用。相反，就科特迪瓦而言，有迹象表明，在粮食安全治理领域，国际组织之间存在一定程度的连贯性，甚至有分工，尽管有限。但是，这仅适用于组织间秩序的特定维度，并且似乎在表面下不断受到竞争和重新解释。