Computerization of cooperative business information systems can lead to large increases in efficiency and competitiveness. Unfortunately, the level of computerization of agricultural cooperatives remains alarmingly low. But this is changing as businesses in other sectors computerize and as competition with [...]

Our latest edition of the Dimitra newsletter focuses on rural women, information and empowerment

The increasing importance and recognition of Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) in poverty reduction and decentralization contexts is self-evident. The study collected and used primary and secondary data applying different Participatory Learning and Actions (PLA) methods and tools.

The aim of this booklet is to highlight some of the issues that cooperative leaders must confront in meeting this challenge and to provide suggestions about how capital, especially member capital, can be mobilized in more effective ways.

Poverty continues to be an endemic problem in Zambia. According to the living conditions monitoring survey of 1998, 73 percent of the population were classified as living in poverty. While poverty has long existed in Zambia, it is clear that [...]