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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...
This article explores the way in which the cocoa sector shaped the rent-seeking behaviour of ruling elites and rural producers in Ghana and Ivory Coast. Analysis of their rent-seeking behaviour is done in two different contexts. The first context is a boom period in which the exploitation of the...
Data from Cameroon show that improved tenure security over cocoa fields increases farmers’ consumption and welfare, but at the expense of more deforestation. The introduction of new cocoa varieties with faster maturity and higher input response also unambiguously raises farmers’ consumption and...
The report, commissioned by the Evaluation Department of DANIDA, examines which gender issues are important when and where in value chains, focusing on development interventions that explicitly or implicitly employ a value chain approach. In box 2 on page 24 an example of certification to...
This study argues that besides price incentives, local institutions such as land tenure systems and agrarian contracts provide strong incentives and disincentives to agricultural production as well. Price incentives need to be placed in wider incentive structures embedded in the complex...
The authors' central hypothesis is that investment levels and deforestation rates depend on the interaction of technology with institutions: in particular, they ask whether the availability of faster-maturing cocoa varieties might raise farmers’ incentive to clear virgin forests when...
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