Dervillé, Marie, Diego Manriquez, Bruno Dorin, Claire Aubron, and Didier Raboisson. 2023. “Indian Dairy Cooperative Development: A Combination of Scaling up and Scaling out Producing a Center-Periphery Structure.” World Development, 170:106249.

Marie Dervillé is a visiting researcher at CSH and an associate professor at the French National Superior School for Agricultural Training (ENSFEA) has co-written an article with Diego Manriquez (CIRAD, UMR ASTRE), Bruno Dorin (CIRAD, UMR Cired-Associate researcher at CSH), Claire Aubron (SELMET, Université de Montpellier-Associate researcher at CSH) and Didier Raboisson (CIRAD, UMR ASTRE) entitled “Indian dairy cooperative development: A combination of scaling up and scaling out producing a center-periphery structure“, in World Development.

The article is available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2023.106249

Abstract: Our spatialized analysis of the development of Indian dairy cooperatives from 1995 to 2015 contributes both theoretically and empirically to research on inclusive business (IB) and development. We emphasize the degrees of inclusiveness through the distinction between scaling out and scaling up by using quantitative data related to business evolution during this period. We determine that the diversification of cooperative activities upstream and downstream combined with the preservation of smallholder access is a good indicator of IBs and inclusive ecosystems and, therefore, of scaling up. In contrast, while northern and eastern states have only low-level collection activities, the spatial concentration of large and diversified cooperatives in western Indian states shows a center-periphery structure, with scaling up taking place only in the center. The transfer of resources from mature to emerging cooperatives appears to be crucial, with consequences for both business model design and public intervention.