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Author : Hans Holmén
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9171063005
Author : Alfred Hanel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
ISBN : IND:30000022299154
Design of new economic structures for co-operatives to achieve self help and decision making through participation of members.
Author : Karin Wedig
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351629478
Agriculture is a major contributor to Africa’s GDP, the region’s biggest source of employment and its largest food producer. However, agricultural productivity remains low and buyer-driven global value chains offer few opportunities for small producers to upgrade into higher value-added activities. In recent years, the revival of Africa’s cooperatives has been celebrated by governments and international donors as a pathway towards inclusive agricultural development, and this book explores the strengths but also the issues which surround these cooperatives. The book scrutinizes the neoliberal ideal of economic prosperity arising through the operation of liberalized labor markets by illuminating the discriminatory nature of Uganda’s informal labor relations. It points to the role of cooperatives as a potential instrument of progressive change in African export agriculture, where large numbers of small producers depend on casual wage work in addition to farming. In contrast to the portrayal, advanced by some governments and rarely questioned by donors, of an unproblematic co-existence of small producers’ collective action and big capital interests, the author calls for a re-politicized debate on the Social and Solidarity Economy. As part of this, she highlights the adverse political and economic conditions faced by African cooperatives, including intense international competition in agricultural processing, inadequate access to infrastructure and services, and at times antagonistic state-cooperative relations. Supported by wide-ranging interdisciplinary evidence, including new ethnographic, survey and interview data, this book shows how cooperatives may be co-opted by both the state and corporations in a discourse that ignores structural inequalities in value chains and emphasizes poverty reduction over economic and political empowerment. It provides a critique of New Institutional Economics as a framework for understanding how institutions shape redistribution, and develops a political economy approach to explore the conditions for structural change in African export agriculture.
Author : International Labour Office
Publisher : International Labour Office
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Cooperation
ISBN : UCBK:C102461574
Cooperatives are omnipresent in Africa and represent a significant part of the private sector in most African countries. Successful and economically viable cooperatives create economic opportunities, provide a basic level of social protection and security, and provide their members with voice and representation. Yet, there are weaknesses and deficiencies of cooperatives in certain countries or sectors that result in poor performance. This book offers an objective analysis of the state of affairs of the cooperative sector in Africa since the liberalization of the economy in the early 1990s. It contains a historical overview of cooperative development in the continent and in-depth country studies that illustrate not only the structure and operation of the cooperative sector, but also analyse the major strengths and weaknesses of various cooperative undertakings in Africa. The aim of this book is to alert governments, donors and researchers to a fragmented, dispersed movement and make a case for the viability of cooperatives in Africa
Author : Roy Clinton Cave
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Cooperation
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120527770
Author : Hans G. B. Hedlund
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9171062742
Author : Mafukata, Mavhungu Abel,Tshikolomo, Khathutshelo Alfred
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781799823087
Development studies in developing regions such as Southern Africa rely heavily on materials developed by Europeans with a European context. European dominance in development studies emanates from the fact that the discipline was first developed by Europeans. Some argue that this has led to distortions in theory and practice of development in Southern Africa. This book wishes to begin Africa’s expedition to develop proper material to de-Westernize while Africanizing the context of the scholarship of rural development. African Perspectives on Reshaping Rural Development is an essential reference source that repositions the context of rural development studies from the Western-centric knowledge system into an African context in order to solve African-centered problems. Featuring research on topics such as food security, poverty reduction, and community engagement, this book is ideally designed for planners, researchers, practitioners, policymakers, government officials, academicians, and students seeking clarity on theory and practice of development in Africa.
Author : Crawford Young,Neal P. Sherman,Tim H. Rose
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0299087107
Comparison examining the impact of agricultural policies on agricultural cooperative successes or failures in Ghana and Uganda - discusses the historical and theoretical background, economic policy, membership Motivation, leadership, administrative aspects, state intervention, farmer attitudes, impact on rural development, etc., and evaluates the potential as a means of achieving income redistribution and efficiency. Maps, references and statistical tables.
Author : Karin Wedig
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351629461
Agriculture is a major contributor to Africa’s GDP, the region’s biggest source of employment and its largest food producer. However, agricultural productivity remains low and buyer-driven global value chains offer few opportunities for small producers to upgrade into higher value-added activities. In recent years, the revival of Africa’s cooperatives has been celebrated by governments and international donors as a pathway towards inclusive agricultural development, and this book explores the strengths but also the issues which surround these cooperatives. The book scrutinizes the neoliberal ideal of economic prosperity arising through the operation of liberalized labor markets by illuminating the discriminatory nature of Uganda’s informal labor relations. It points to the role of cooperatives as a potential instrument of progressive change in African export agriculture, where large numbers of small producers depend on casual wage work in addition to farming. In contrast to the portrayal, advanced by some governments and rarely questioned by donors, of an unproblematic co-existence of small producers’ collective action and big capital interests, the author calls for a re-politicized debate on the Social and Solidarity Economy. As part of this, she highlights the adverse political and economic conditions faced by African cooperatives, including intense international competition in agricultural processing, inadequate access to infrastructure and services, and at times antagonistic state-cooperative relations. Supported by wide-ranging interdisciplinary evidence, including new ethnographic, survey and interview data, this book shows how cooperatives may be co-opted by both the state and corporations in a discourse that ignores structural inequalities in value chains and emphasizes poverty reduction over economic and political empowerment. It provides a critique of New Institutional Economics as a framework for understanding how institutions shape redistribution, and develops a political economy approach to explore the conditions for structural change in African export agriculture.
Author : Andrew Emmanuel Okem
Publisher : Springer
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319342160
The book outlines how cooperatives can be used as a tool for development and reconciliation in post-conflict contexts. This book also examines the successes and challenges for emerging and existing cooperatives in Africa, while delivering both practical lessons and insights into the theory. It presents completely new materials on the cooperative movement, against a backdrop of increasing global recognition of the roles of cooperatives and collective action in socio-economic development. Readers are invited to consider how, as an economic model that seeks to advance member collective interests, cooperatives are invaluable tools for human, economic and social development. Social and human geographers find this a remarkably impactful contribution to the literature surrounding cooperatives in Africa and cooperative theory in general. Policy experts and students also find the research informative and insightful.
Author : Björn Gyllström,Franz-Michael Rundquist
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034232426
Author : Björn Gyllström
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000868852
Originally published in 1991, this book includes a detailed case study of Kenya’s co-operative movement – one of the largest in sub-Saharan Africa. Co-operatives have been given a major role in rural development strategies in both socialist and capitalist states. However in both context the results they have achieved have fallen short of expectations. The book focuses on specific elements of the institutional setting within which agricultural marketing co-operatives operate. Factors like land tenure, market regulations, co-operative legislation and direct development support are discussed and shown to have had dire effects on the managerial behaviour and social impact of the co-operative sector.
Author : United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Agricultural assistance, American
ISBN : UIUC:30112033969897
Author : Avishay Braverman
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : WISC:89034684191
The economic crisis in sub - Saharan Africa presents a major challenge to donors and to policy-makers. After an initial period of growth following independence, most African economies faltered, then failed. Repressed producer prices, inefficient public marketing boards, and weak government commitment have often been blamed for the poor performance of agriculture, Africa's most important sector. Thus, since the mid-1980s, many structural adjustment programs have emphasized price and marketing reforms, and countries have liberalized the marketing and pricing of major food crops. These reforms have improved the performance of the agricultural sector, but the effects on growth and real income have not met expectations. Deficient infrastructure, inadequate access to inputs and credit, poor extension services, and inefficient marketing systems constrain the effective expansion of production. There must be reforms that specifically address these constraints. This paper examines the reasons behind successful and unsuccessful experiences with rural co-ops and reevaluates the potential for remedying the major problems. It briefly explains the motivation for and effectiveness of rural co-ops in developed countries through the example of the Dutch. It then focuses on the development of rural cooperatives in sub - Saharan Africa and on the main issues and problems, including internal and external constraints.
Author : Raymond Apthorpe
Publisher : Uppsala : Scandinavian Institute of African Studies ; New York : Africana Publishing Corporation
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015028143918