Encountering the Evidence: Cooperatives and Poverty Reduction in Africa

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

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Subfields: Strategy and Management

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Citations in the corpus

• The impact of agricultural cooperatives membership on the wellbeing of smallholder farmers: empirical evidence from eastern Ethiopia (2017, background): “Different studies (e.g. Leistritz 2004; Wanyama et al. 2008; Getnet and Anullo 2012; Ito et al. 2012; Verhofstadt and Maertens 2014) also confirm the role of cooperatives in poverty reduction and in improving the livelihood of smallholder farmers.”
• Adoption and Dissemination Pathways for Climate-Smart Agriculture Technologies and Practices for Climate-Resilient Livelihoods in Lushoto, Northeast Tanzania (2017, background): “In Tanzania, SACCOs have been known to improve the investment climate by providing opportunities for rural people to secure returns on their savings and access to loans at affordable interest rates [42,43] and can, therefore, contribute to risk management.”