The market-driven agricultural transformation of the global food system requires all, directly and indirectly, participating actors to compete efficiently and to adapt to changes in consumer demand and buyer requirements. Regarding product quantity and quality, smallholders, in particular, have...

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...