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.

摘要

创新对于撒哈拉以南非洲的农民来说至关重要，要适应挑战并从机遇中受益。利益相关者参与创新计划的决定会受到他们的看法的影响。本文使用Q方法应用程序来研究贝宁养猪价值链上的这些看法。与当地利益相关者建立了55条陈述，然后由25位受访者以11级的等级进行评分。确定了三种主要话语：与内在的创新观相关的乐观话语，以及与自上而下的外生观相悲观的话语。第三种话语强调了创新的细微差别再分配效应。鼓励本地创新的创新平台项目应立足并加强第一种乐观的话语。