Author: D. Eberhard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Operational Efficiency of Agricultural Cooperatives in Developing Countries
Author: D. Eberhard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Operational Efficiency of Agricultural Cooperatives in Developing Countries
Author: D. Eberhard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Operational Efficiency of Agricultural Cooperatives in Developing Countries
Author: Eberhard Dülfer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Basic considerations; Efficiency with respect to social and economic development targets; Motivational and organizacional aspects of cooperative efficiency; Efficiency of different patterns of cooperative farming in developing regions; Efficiency of different of service and credit cooperatives; Imperatives for management and financing of cooperative enterprises; Prerequisites for cooperative efficiency within agricultural development projects; Vocational training and education required for members and personnel of cooperatives in developing countries.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Basic considerations; Efficiency with respect to social and economic development targets; Motivational and organizacional aspects of cooperative efficiency; Efficiency of different patterns of cooperative farming in developing regions; Efficiency of different of service and credit cooperatives; Imperatives for management and financing of cooperative enterprises; Prerequisites for cooperative efficiency within agricultural development projects; Vocational training and education required for members and personnel of cooperatives in developing countries.
Accelerating technical change through video-mediated agricultural extension: Evidence from Ethiopia
Author: Abate, Gashaw T.
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Despite a rapidly growing enthusiasm around applications of information and communications technologies (ICTs) to smallholder agriculture in developing countries, there are still many questions on the effectiveness of ICT-based approaches. This study assesses the effects of videomediated agricultural extension service provision on farmers’ knowledge and adoption of improved agricultural technologies and practices in Ethiopia. The study focuses on a program piloted by the Government of Ethiopia and Digital Green and poses three questions. First, to what extent does video-mediated extension lead to increased uptake of improved agricultural technologies and practices by smallholder farmers? Second, is video-mediated extension targeted at both spouses of the household more effective than when only targeted at the (typically male) household head? Third, how cost-effective is a video-mediated approach to extension provision? The study explores these questions with a randomized controlled trial designed to evaluate the video-mediated approach as applied to three priority crops (teff, wheat, maize) and three technologies (row planting, precise seeding rates, and urea dressing). The trial was implemented in 347 kebeles (village clusters) during the 2017 meher (rainy) season in Ethiopia’s four most agriculturally important regional states. Analysis of data from our surveys of 2,422 households and 896 extension agents indicates that the video-mediated approach is more effective than the conventional approach in achieving several key outcomes. Specifically, we find that videomediated extension reaches a wider audience than the conventional approach and leads to higher levels of agricultural knowledge and uptake of technologies in those kebeles randomly assigned to the program. While our results do point to greater participation and greater knowledge of female spouses in kebeles where both male and female spouses were targeted by the program, we do not find clear evidence that the more inclusive approach translated into higher uptake of the subject technologies and practices. Finally, we find that the video-mediated approach becomes less costly as the scale of operation increases.
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Despite a rapidly growing enthusiasm around applications of information and communications technologies (ICTs) to smallholder agriculture in developing countries, there are still many questions on the effectiveness of ICT-based approaches. This study assesses the effects of videomediated agricultural extension service provision on farmers’ knowledge and adoption of improved agricultural technologies and practices in Ethiopia. The study focuses on a program piloted by the Government of Ethiopia and Digital Green and poses three questions. First, to what extent does video-mediated extension lead to increased uptake of improved agricultural technologies and practices by smallholder farmers? Second, is video-mediated extension targeted at both spouses of the household more effective than when only targeted at the (typically male) household head? Third, how cost-effective is a video-mediated approach to extension provision? The study explores these questions with a randomized controlled trial designed to evaluate the video-mediated approach as applied to three priority crops (teff, wheat, maize) and three technologies (row planting, precise seeding rates, and urea dressing). The trial was implemented in 347 kebeles (village clusters) during the 2017 meher (rainy) season in Ethiopia’s four most agriculturally important regional states. Analysis of data from our surveys of 2,422 households and 896 extension agents indicates that the video-mediated approach is more effective than the conventional approach in achieving several key outcomes. Specifically, we find that videomediated extension reaches a wider audience than the conventional approach and leads to higher levels of agricultural knowledge and uptake of technologies in those kebeles randomly assigned to the program. While our results do point to greater participation and greater knowledge of female spouses in kebeles where both male and female spouses were targeted by the program, we do not find clear evidence that the more inclusive approach translated into higher uptake of the subject technologies and practices. Finally, we find that the video-mediated approach becomes less costly as the scale of operation increases.
Cooperative Self-help
Author: United States. Federal Emergency Relief Administration
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cooperation
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cooperation
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
The Path to the Success of Cooperatives
Author: Eugenio V. Mendoza
Publisher: UP Press
ISBN: 9789715425278
Category : Cooperative societies
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Publisher: UP Press
ISBN: 9789715425278
Category : Cooperative societies
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
FAO Agricultural Development Paper
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
Cooperatives in Agribusiness
Author: United States. Farmer Cooperative Service
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural industries
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural industries
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
State, Cooperatives and Development in Africa
Author: Hans Holmén
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN: 9789171063007
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN: 9789171063007
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Frontier Information Technology and Systems Research in Cooperative Economics
Author: Aleksei V. Bogoviz
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030578313
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
Book Description
This book is the very first book-length study devoted to the advances in technological development and systems research in cooperative economics. The chapters provide, first of all, a coherent framework for understanding and applying the concepts and approaches of complexity and systems science for the advanced study of cooperative networks and particular cooperative enterprises and communities. Second, the book serves as a unique source of reliable information on the frontier information technologies available for the production, consumer, credit, and agricultural cooperative enterprises, discussing predominant strategies, potential drivers of change, and responses to complex problems. Given the diverse range of backgrounds and advanced research results, researchers, decision-makers, and stakeholders from all fields of cooperative economics in any country of the world will undoubtedly benefit from this book.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030578313
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
Book Description
This book is the very first book-length study devoted to the advances in technological development and systems research in cooperative economics. The chapters provide, first of all, a coherent framework for understanding and applying the concepts and approaches of complexity and systems science for the advanced study of cooperative networks and particular cooperative enterprises and communities. Second, the book serves as a unique source of reliable information on the frontier information technologies available for the production, consumer, credit, and agricultural cooperative enterprises, discussing predominant strategies, potential drivers of change, and responses to complex problems. Given the diverse range of backgrounds and advanced research results, researchers, decision-makers, and stakeholders from all fields of cooperative economics in any country of the world will undoubtedly benefit from this book.