| 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 |
| Challenges before cooperatives in South Asia - Building a comparative advantage |
| Cooperatives are currently facing a number of crises: crisis of capital, crisis of ideology, crisis of credibility and crisis of management. The question that the article intends to answer is: why cooperatives? This article was extracted from the study, "Cooperatives in the new environments: Role of the Registrar of Cooperative Societies in South Asia (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka)", ... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/rodirect/ROan0013.htm |
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| Institutions - Social capital |
| The gender dimension in rural cooperatives |
| From a paper commissioned by FAO for the Centennial Meeting of the International Cooperative Alliance, Manchester, UK, September, 1995.The article address the questions why is female participation so low in cooperatives, especially in rural cooperatives, and how cooperatives can help women's integration by paying attention to their basic and strategic needs |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/rodirect/ROan0008.htm |
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| Institutions - Public institutions |
| Sustainable Rural Development in Western Africa: The Naam Movement and the Six 'S' |
| The Naam Movement and the Six 'S' suggest many essential elements for development. Their success clearly articulates the
significance of 'development from within' approaches, not from the outside. Their success also lies in starting from 'tradition', in
people's participation with decentralized organization, and in fully utilizing local resources and endowments, which are also
ingredients of 'd... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/rodirect/ROan0006.htm |
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| Institutions - Social capital |
| Toward a new cooperative system in Viet Nam |
| The development of a genuine co-operative network is a long-term process. It requires a continuous participatory dialogue within
the co-operative and group movement and with external agencies, that may provide assistance supplementary to internally mobilised
resources. |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/rodirect/ROan0005.htm |
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| Institutions - Social capital |
| Cooperatives in the context of globalization and liberalization |
| This article provides a review of the social considerations, legal situation and economic opportunities for cooperatives in the context of globalization and liberalization, and discusses the roles of all parties involved, including donors and governments.
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| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/rodirect/ROan0001.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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| Institutions - Social capital |
| Cooperatives in the New Environments: Role of the Registrar of Cooperative Societies in South Asia |
| The objective of the study presented in this article is to analyse the role, duties and functions of the Registrar of Cooperative Societies in selected South Asian countries in a comparative perspective and in the light of recent developments; and, on the basis of such an analysis, suggest appropriate modifications in the role, functions and responsibilities of the office of the
Registrar of Coop... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/rodirect/ROre0010.htm |
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| Institutions - Public institutions |
| Partners for food security |
| This article is taken from the FAO document "The role of trade unions, rural workers' organizations, agricultural producers' and farmers' associations, cooperatives, and development/advocacy organizations in contributing to the World Food Summit and its follow-up". It argues that all these organizations have a major stake and role to play in achieving food security and in cooperating with FAO, gov... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/rodirect/ROre0005.htm |
| French: http://www.fao.org/sd/frdirect/ROre0006.htm |
| Spanish: http://www.fao.org/sd/spdirect/ROre0007.htm |
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