The emergence of agricultural industrialization has posed major challenges for smallholder farmers in developing countries, especially sub-Saharan Africa. Using the poultry sector as a case study, we examine the strength and challenges of existing models of integration in terms of efficiency,...

This paper explores the capital flow landscape in Sub Saharan Africa and other regions and reviews the capital flow theory and its allocation puzzle. The different mechanisms in which the volume and structure of capital flow can be increased are discussed. It concludes by presenting a modified...

In measuring technical and scale efficiency of Tanzanian Saving and Credit Cooperatives we used a sample of 103 audited financial statements during 2011. Data envelopment analysis was employed to explore the efficiency scores. The results show that average scores are 42%, 52% and 76% for...