State, Cooperatives and Development in Africa
Title | State, Cooperatives and Development in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Hans Holmén |
Publisher | Nordic Africa Institute |
Pages | 52 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Africa |
ISBN | 9789171063007 |
Cooperatives, the State, and Corporate Power in African Export Agriculture
Title | Cooperatives, the State, and Corporate Power in African Export Agriculture PDF eBook |
Author | KARIN. WEDIG |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 2020-09-30 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780367660543 |
Agriculture is a major contributor to Africa's GDP, the region's biggest source of employment and its largest food producer. However, agricultural productivity remains low and buyer-driven global value chains offer few opportunities for small producers to upgrade into higher value-added activities. In recent years, the revival of Africa's cooperatives has been celebrated by governments and international donors as a pathway towards inclusive agricultural development, and this book explores the strengths but also the issues which surround these cooperatives. The book scrutinizes the neoliberal ideal of economic prosperity arising through the operation of liberalized labor markets by illuminating the discriminatory nature of Uganda's informal labor relations. It points to the role of cooperatives as a potential instrument of progressive change in African export agriculture, where large numbers of small producers depend on casual wage work in addition to farming. In contrast to the portrayal, advanced by some governments and rarely questioned by donors, of an unproblematic co-existence of small producers' collective action and big capital interests, the author calls for a re-politicized debate on the Social and Solidarity Economy. As part of this, she highlights the adverse political and economic conditions faced by African cooperatives, including intense international competition in agricultural processing, inadequate access to infrastructure and services, and at times antagonistic state-cooperative relations. Supported by wide-ranging interdisciplinary evidence, including new ethnographic, survey and interview data, this book shows how cooperatives may be co-opted by both the state and corporations in a discourse that ignores structural inequalities in value chains and emphasizes poverty reduction over economic and political empowerment. It provides a critique of New Institutional Economics as a framework for understanding how institutions shape redistribution, and develops a political economy approach to explore the conditions for structural change in African export agriculture.
Creating a Favourable Climate and Conditions for Cooperative Development in Africa
Title | Creating a Favourable Climate and Conditions for Cooperative Development in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Hans-H. Münkner |
Publisher | |
Pages | 222 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Africa |
ISBN |
African Perspectives on Reshaping Rural Development
Title | African Perspectives on Reshaping Rural Development PDF eBook |
Author | Mafukata, Mavhungu Abel |
Publisher | IGI Global |
Pages | 403 |
Release | 2019-11-22 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1799823083 |
Development studies in developing regions such as Southern Africa rely heavily on materials developed by Europeans with a European context. European dominance in development studies emanates from the fact that the discipline was first developed by Europeans. Some argue that this has led to distortions in theory and practice of development in Southern Africa. This book wishes to begin Africa’s expedition to develop proper material to de-Westernize while Africanizing the context of the scholarship of rural development. African Perspectives on Reshaping Rural Development is an essential reference source that repositions the context of rural development studies from the Western-centric knowledge system into an African context in order to solve African-centered problems. Featuring research on topics such as food security, poverty reduction, and community engagement, this book is ideally designed for planners, researchers, practitioners, policymakers, government officials, academicians, and students seeking clarity on theory and practice of development in Africa.
State-sponsored Cooperatives and Self-reliance
Title | State-sponsored Cooperatives and Self-reliance PDF eBook |
Author | Alfred Hanel |
Publisher | |
Pages | 80 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Agriculture, Cooperative |
ISBN |
Design of new economic structures for co-operatives to achieve self help and decision making through participation of members.
Collective Courage
Title | Collective Courage PDF eBook |
Author | Jessica Gordon Nembhard |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 325 |
Release | 2015-06-13 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0271064269 |
In Collective Courage, Jessica Gordon Nembhard chronicles African American cooperative business ownership and its place in the movements for Black civil rights and economic equality. Not since W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1907 Economic Co-operation Among Negro Americans has there been a full-length, nationwide study of African American cooperatives. Collective Courage extends that story into the twenty-first century. Many of the players are well known in the history of the African American experience: Du Bois, A. Philip Randolph and the Ladies' Auxiliary to the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Jo Baker, George Schuyler and the Young Negroes’ Co-operative League, the Nation of Islam, and the Black Panther Party. Adding the cooperative movement to Black history results in a retelling of the African American experience, with an increased understanding of African American collective economic agency and grassroots economic organizing. To tell the story, Gordon Nembhard uses a variety of newspapers, period magazines, and journals; co-ops’ articles of incorporation, minutes from annual meetings, newsletters, budgets, and income statements; and scholarly books, memoirs, and biographies. These sources reveal the achievements and challenges of Black co-ops, collective economic action, and social entrepreneurship. Gordon Nembhard finds that African Americans, as well as other people of color and low-income people, have benefitted greatly from cooperative ownership and democratic economic participation throughout the nation’s history.
Cooperating Out of Poverty
Title | Cooperating Out of Poverty PDF eBook |
Author | International Labour Office |
Publisher | International Labour Office |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN |
Cooperatives are omnipresent in Africa and represent a significant part of the private sector in most African countries. Successful and economically viable cooperatives create economic opportunities, provide a basic level of social protection and security, and provide their members with voice and representation. Yet, there are weaknesses and deficiencies of cooperatives in certain countries or sectors that result in poor performance. This book offers an objective analysis of the state of affairs of the cooperative sector in Africa since the liberalization of the economy in the early 1990s. It contains a historical overview of cooperative development in the continent and in-depth country studies that illustrate not only the structure and operation of the cooperative sector, but also analyse the major strengths and weaknesses of various cooperative undertakings in Africa. The aim of this book is to alert governments, donors and researchers to a fragmented, dispersed movement and make a case for the viability of cooperatives in Africa