The purpose of this paper is to analyze cooperatives in Armenian fruit and vegetable sector and the dairy sector, reveal the existing problems, study the reasons why the speed of organization of new cooperatives is not fast enough, and find the factors that prevent farmers from taking advantage...

Does participation in livestock markets improve the welfare levels of smallholder farmers in Zambia? Are there any biases in the distribution of benefits between poor and better off households? To address these questions, we employ propensity score matching and decomposition techniques on...

There is increasing evidence that improved agricultural technologies benefit smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. This evidence is however relatively clearer for innovations in smallholder crop production systems as compared to innovations in livestock production systems. Moreover, it is...