| Institutions - Social capital |
| Financing Economic Self-reliance and Member Participation in Farmer Organizations in Kenya |
| This paper focuses on the problem of mobilizing increased member capital within farmer co-operatives in Africa -with particular reference to Kenya's co-operative dairy and coffee sectors- and provides some observations regarding the strengths and weaknesses of various instruments for doing this within the Kenya context. |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/ROdirect/ROan0017.htm |
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| Institutions - Social capital |
| Institutions - Public institutions |
| Rural people's organizations in a liberalized market economy: Recent FAO experience |
| The aim of the FAO-sponsored applied research effort described in this article is to develop an improved set of guidelines for the financing of sustainable agricultural cooperative development in developing regions, based on actual cooperative experience in this field. |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/rodirect/ROan0002.htm |
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| Institutions - Social capital |
| Capital formation in agricultural cooperatives in developing countries: research issues, findings and policy implications for cooperatives and donors |
| The research and the conference for which this paper was prepared arise from
concerns about cooperative capital formation that have been developed since
1992. The article summarizes
research on cooperative capital formation in developing country agricultural
cooperatives, based on fieldwork in Guatemala, India and Kenya
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| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/rodirect/ROan0003.htm |
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| People - Participation |
| Institutions - Social capital |
| Financing for small farmer groups |
| Accumulation and reinvestment of wealth are driving forces behind economic
development. Yet, in most developing countries, the rural poor have little, if any, access to institutional finance. The FAO People's Participation Programme (PPP) has developed a set of financial strategies designed to improve the rural poor's access to essential financial services and promote their financial self-relianc... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/PPdirect/PPan0010.htm |
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