Cooperating out of poverty : the renaissance of the African cooperative movement

By P. Develtere, I. Pollet, Frederick O. Wanyama. 2008

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REINVENTING THE WHEEL? AFRICAN COOPERATIVES IN A LIBERALIZED ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT (2009, unknown): “…of cooperatives and members in selected countries, 1992 and 2005 Country Number of active coopertives Coop members (in millions) 1992 2005 1992 2005 Ghana 1000 2850 n.a. 2.4 Kenya 4000 7000 2.5 3.3 Nigeria 29000 50000 2.6 4.3 Senegal 2000 6000 n.a. 3.0 Source: Porvali, 1993; Develtere et al., 2008.”
The impact of agricultural cooperatives membership on the wellbeing of smallholder farmers: empirical evidence from eastern Ethiopia (2017, background): “Few cooperatives were also engaged in producing industrial crops for export markets, and their members were mostly large landholders (Lemma 2008).”