Making Land And Agricultural Investments Work For Development And Shared Prosperity : Assessments Of Inclusive Business Models
Wytske Oeke Chamberlain-Van der Werf & Ward Anseeuw
Innovative Inclusive Business Models (IBM) are being developed, implemented and promoted in the agricultural sector across the developing world against a background of a rise in large-scale land acquisitions, an increasingly vertically integrated global supply chain and a need to re-vitalize the agricultural sector, including in South Africa. This paper focuses on the identification and an institutional analysis of 17 sampled IBMs in South Africa, including their determinant and contextual environments influencing the models, highlighting the hybrid and complex entities of inclusive business models implemented. The paper presents a transversal analysis that enables the assessment of the modelss inclusivity. Results show that large gaps exist between theoretical inclusiveness and the actual implementation. Overall, the paper gives insights in how specific models work under what circumstances, what their factors for success are and which challenges can be expected. This can serve as a guideline for future implementations but also for policy makers to create an environment conducive to successful IBMs, in South Africa as well as beyond, in the context of large-scale land investments.
Event: Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty 2015
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