@article{Figueroa:6439,
      recid = {6439},
      author = {Figueroa, Maria and Valdivia, Corinne},
      title = {Strategies to Develop Market Access that Contribute to  Resilience in the Bolivian Highlands, Case study: PMCA and  BAP for chuno and tunta},
      address = {2008},
      number = {382-2016-22494},
      series = {Selected Paper},
      pages = {18},
      year = {2008},
      abstract = {The study evaluates how the Bolivian Andean Platform  (BAP), under the philosophy of the Participatory Market  Chain Approach (PMCA) reduces transaction costs for native  products, Chuno and Tunta, elaborated by small-scale  farmers in three communities in Umala-Bolivia. At a first  stage, the study identifies how local native potato  varieties' programs (NPVP) developed by the International  Potato Center (CIP)-ALTAGRO development project empower  farmers to be able to participate in the BAP. It also  identifies the barriers foreseen by those who do not  participate in NPVP. At a second stage, it analyzes which  transaction costs are reduced for farmers who participate.  It also identifies incentives within the platform that  motivate market chain actors' participation. To accomplish  the objectives, the authors use qualitative methods to  develop a multiple embedded case study, and an empirical  study under the Pattern-matching logic (Yin, 1994). For the  case study, personal interviews are conducted with all  stakeholders of the BAP. For the empirical study, the  qualitative analyses consist of the selection of families  that produce chuno and tunta for commercial purposes in  three communities participating in the Sustainable  Agriculture and Natural Resource Collaborative Research  Support Programs (SANREM CRSP) and ALTAGRO baseline  surveys. Selected chuno and tunta marketers are divided in  those who participate in NPVP, and those who do not. On the  one hand, the results indicate that NPVP benefit producers'  participation in the BAP by promoting collective action,  sustainable livelihoods and resilience. The barriers to  participate are mainly due to emigration and resulting less  labor available at the household. On the other hand, the  BAP reduces transaction costs in the market chain, and  promotes agency capacity and market involvement for  small-scale producers. However, the BAP lacks incentives to  motivate farmer's participation, and offers a price that  does not pay off producers' efforts for higher quality of  chuno and tunta.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/6439},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.6439},
}