Critical choices must now be made if growth is to be sustained. Significant potential exists for future growth, but bringing out this potential poses a major challenge for government policy. Agricultural strategy must shift its focus towards support for continuous productivity growth by peasant...

The author of this publication traces the origins of the relatively bad image which co-operative societies are having even today among most international and bi-lateral technical assistance and donor organisations. From 1975, when the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development...