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Repository of research about existing players providing funding support to FPOs for collective assets.

Collective asset comes up a lot in the literature related to Chinese policy

(Just some basic research….)

FAO case study SEWA = helping women organizations access productive assets and self-manage their organizations (committees, groups, cooperatives). SEWA builds women’s capacity and facilitates capital formation through asset ownership and access to financial services (savings, insurance, credit). Social and productive assets (seeds, fertilizer, land, finance, equipment) reduce vulnerability to shocks (adds resilience).

Tamil Nadu case study organic farming =

Social assets = relationships with community, gov’t, etc.

Financial assets = savings, banking, loans, etc.

Physical assets = Equipment

Human assets = KSAs on health, ag info, leadership, etc.

Natural assets = water, land, biodiversity, etc.

Gender, Assets, and Agricultural Development Programs (by my girl Ruth Meinzen-Dick from IFPRI et al, but I read her work in graduate school and find her to be amazing) =

Access to, control over, and ownership of assets are critical components of wellbeing (Sherraden 1991; Carter and Barrett 2006). Productive assets can generate products or services that can be consumed or sold to generate income. Assets are also stores of wealth that can increase (or decrease) in value. Assets can act as collateral and facilitate access to credit and financial services as well as increase social status. Flexibility of assets to serve multiple functions provides both security through emergencies and opportunities in periods of growth (Deere and Doss 2006). In their study of “voices of the poor,” Narayan et al. (2000: 5) found that “the poor rarely speak of income, but focus instead on managing assets—physical, human, social and environmental—as a way to cope with their vulnerability.” Access to, control over, and ownership of assets including land and livestock, homes and equipment, and other resources enable people to create stable and productive lives. Increasing the nexus of control over assets also potentially enables more permanent pathways out of poverty compared to measures that aim to increase incomes or consumption alone.

These different forms of asset holdings have been categorized as (for our purposes, those in red):

  • natural resource capital: land, water, trees, genetic resources, soil fertility

  • physical capital: agricultural and business equipment, houses, consumer durables, vehicles and transportation, water supply and sanitation facilities, and communications infrastructure

  • human capital: education, skills, knowledge, health, nutrition; these are embodied in the labor of individuals

  • financial capital: savings, credit, and inflows (state transfers and remittances)

  • social capital: membership in organizations and groups, social and professional networks

  • political capital: citizenship, enfranchisement, and effective participation in governance.2

Collective approaches not a panacea; need to pay attention to factors affecting collective action when group-based approaches are used.

IFAD

Scope:

  1. Do collective assets work or not? Is it true that capital towards collective assets is actually effective? (without the issue of commons) 

  2. What should be collective assets? (income generating be collective assets?) 

  3. If collective assets, then what kind of collective assets actually work? (e.g., ALC said retail outlets) - can we develop a list of types of collective assets  

  4. How are these investments packaged? 

  5. Who are the players that actually provide these finds of funding? (e.g., give directly? KIVA? Technoserve? USAID? Apparently IRRI, CIMMYT has done stuff like this, happy seeder work?) 

  6. What have we learned from their experience?

Notes to self:

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