Transaction costs and crop marketing in the communal areas of Impendle and Swayimana, KwaZulu-Natal

By P. Matungul, M. Lyne, G. Ortmann. 2001

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Market participation of smallholder maize farmers in the upper west region of Ghana (2014, background): “…membership of a farmer to a farmer based organisation or group increases access to information important to production and marketing decisions while Matungul et al. (2001) observed that collective action as measured by belonging to farmers’ organisations strengthens farmers’ bargaining and…”
Agricultural cooperatives II: Can they facilitate access of small-scale farmers in South Africa to input and product markets? (2007, methodology): “Small-scale farmers in South Africa, as in other developing countries, have limited access to factors of production, credit and information; and markets are often constrained by inadequate property rights and high transaction costs (Lyne, 1996; Matungul et al., 2001 ).”
Factors enhancing market participation by small-scale cotton farmers (2008, methodology): “Collective action as measured by belonging to farmers’ organisations strengthens farmers’ bargaining and lobbying power and facilitates obtaining institutional solutions to some problems and coordination (Jones, 1996, cited in Matungul et al., 2001).”