Goat is a source of cash income to smallholders in many developing countries. The
productivity of goat farmers is poorly understood and assumed similar across all …

The main objective of this article is to review the research by agricultural economists over
the past decade on linking smallholder farmers to agri-food supply chains in Southern Africa …

Purpose–There are many farmers in rural Ethiopia, who do not join cooperative societies,
despite the different technical and financial supports from the government. This study thus …

It is widely acknowledged that the limitations of neoliberal politics and economic
globalisation have contributed to feminisation of poverty in Global South countries. The …

ABSTRACT Post-1994, the South African government has favoured cooperatives over other
types of corporate entities in its rural development programmes. An improved understanding …

Saint Lucia is a small island developing state in the Caribbean region. Traditionally,
agriculture has been the country's major export earner. In the early 1990s, agricultural …

Cooperatives in South Africa should fit into a developmental context to respond especially to
the realities of the country's second economy, characterized by unemployment and …

Identifying the type of organization for achieving social efficiency for agricultural
development remains a challenge. In this study, the relationship between the financial and …

4442, New Zealand; AgResearch, Palmerston North 4442, New Zealand In Papua New
Guinea (PNG), cooperatives have a long and dynamic history, and since 2000 they have …

Abstract How have South Africa's economic planners managed to ignore, or at least to
minimise the relevance of the most salient facts about the economic performance of the …