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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...

This technical note aims to describe the market incentives and disincentives for Cocoa in Ghana.

For this purpose, yearly averages of farm gate and wholesale prices are compared with reference prices calculated on the basis of the price of the commodity in the international market. The...

The study was conducted to analyze farmers’ incentives and challenges in the internal marketing policy of cocoa in Ghana by using two administrative districts (Nkawie and Dunkwa) of the Ghana COCOBOD. A random sample of 171 respondents was drawn from across the two cocoa producing districts and...

To satisfy continued growth in food demand without further degrading the natural environment, African farmers and policy-makers must pursue ‘sustainable agricultural intensification’ (SAI). African governments and donors should invest in both institutions and infrastructure and follow a middle...

The search for value and meaning in the cocoa supply chain in Costa Rica, Haynes, J., Cubbage F., Mercer E., and Sills E. , Sustainability, 2012, Volume 4, Issue 7, p.1466 - 1487, (2012)

Qualitative interviews with participants in the cocoa (Theobroma cacao) supply chain in Costa Rica and the United States were conducted and supplemented with an analysis of the marketing literature to examine the prospects of organic and Fairtrade certification for enhancing environmentally and...

Can price incentive to smuggle explain the contraction of the cocoa supply in Ghana?, BulÌř, A. , Journal of African Economies, 2002, Volume 11, Issue 3, p.27 - pgs., (2002)

The author of this paper argues that the price incentive to smuggle can explain as much as one-half of the observed decline in official output from cocoa from the early 1960s to the mid-1980s. And, although it recovered in the 1990s, it is still below peak levels. The analyis is supported by a...

Market structure and productivity growth in Ghanaian cocoa production, Zeitlin, A. , World Bank/ISSER/Cornel conference on `Shared Growth in Africa', 2005, Accra, Ghana, (2005)

This paper assesses the impact of partial liberalization in Ghana's cocoa market on output in that sector. It is argued that the extent to which reforms fostered competitive village-level oligopsonies among Licensed Buying Companies has been an important determinant of producer productivity....

Ever since the evolution of various economic reforms in Nigeria, that led to the abolition of commodity Boards and the introduction of free market pricing policy the sudden rush to cocoa trade due to higher pricing for cocoa led to increased number of people buying and marketing cocoa. As a...

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