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The Role of Cooperative Organizations in Rural Community Development in Nigeria: Prospects and Challenges, Hussain, Muhammad Shehu , Academic Research International , 05/2014, Volume 5, Issue 3, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, NIGERIA., (2014) The Role of Cooperative Organizations in Rural Community.pdf (130.16 KB)

Cooperative organizations serves as an effective rural community development vehicle by their nature they build economic self reliance and civil society. The paper examined the historical development of cooperative organizations that is how friendly societies emerged among working class group to...

Although cocoa productivity has recently been increasing in Ghana, it is still low compared with that of other countries such as Cote d’Ivoire and Malaysia. This situation has been attributed to the low adoption of cocoa production technologies. The study was aimed at analysing the yield gap as...

In September 2012, the Citi Foundation and the Rainforest Alliance undertook Farmer Bankability and Sustainable Finance: Farm-level Metrics that Matter, a study designed to better understand farmer capacity and performance with regard to financial administration, as well as any bankability...

The influence of soil fertility on the performance of any crop cannot be overemphasized. The study assessed cocoa farmers’ training needs on soil management techniques in Cross River State of
Nigeria. Study data were obtained from random sample of farmers belonging to Cocoa Farmers...

The study sought among other things to examine the detailed map of Ghana’s cocoa value chain (GCVC), the major constraints and opportunities to growth and expansion of GCVC, and proposes strategies to at least mitigate the identified constraints. Questionnaires were used to collect primary data...

Although alternative trade have become a de facto prescription for any location where there is a need to conciliate economic interest with conservation imperatives, the discursive concept of equalitarian partnerships hides the fact that what for consumers is a matter of choice, for producers is...

The roles of farmer participatory and on-farm selection in cocoa improvement with special reference to Ghana, Lockwood, G. , International Workshop on Cocoa Breeding for Farmers’ Needs, 2009///, (2009)

What would now be called a farmer participatory selection programme was undertaken in Ghana 65 years ago resulting in 69 selections for single tree yield from about 50 farms that were examined. A further 108 trees were selected on-station. Eighteen of the on-farm selections and 15 Trinitarios...

The organisation of farmers as an emancipatory factor: the setting up of a supply chain of cocoa in São Tomé, Dulcire, M. , The Journal of Rural and Community Development, 2012, Volume 7, Issue 2, p.131 - 141, (2012)

Few studies have examined the implementation and evolution development of a contract as a learning process for the actors involved. Individual farmers in São Tomé were obliged to organize themselves into a collective in response to a chocolate manufacturer’s innovative proposal of an organic...

This research thesis examines the cocoa productivity in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Indonesia and Colombia. The cocoa yields are low in most producing countries, there is technology available to increase yields, but most farmers have been unable to increase yields and this research tries to answer why....

This report is one in the Policy Research Working Paper Series published in 2002. It outlines a theory of the benefit from commodity insurance, under a fixed production structure, and a methodology for empirical assessment of this benefit. The theory developed isapplied to Ghana with cocoa being...

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