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The two volumes consist of the preliminary report and questionnaire (published in 2000), and the larger report based on answers to the questionnaire (published in 2001).
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Communications - Public Relations, Advertising, Marketing, Social Media, grade: Uppe Credit, , course: Economic Management, language: English, abstract: There are different views of scholars on the word cooperative. Cooperative is layman’s view means coming and working together. But in scope, Cooperative is wider than coming together of group of people. (S.Owojuyigbe) Cooperative is an organization of person usually of limited means who have voluntarily come together democratically give solution to their economic and social problems. (Mr Paul Anawo) Cooperative is an association of person who have voluntarily join together to achieve a common and through the formation of a democratically controlled organization. Making equitable contribution to the capital required and accepting a fair share risk and benefit of the undertaking in which members are actively participate. On the other hands Cooperative society cannot exist without members, this shows that members determine the existence of any cooperative society and cooperative to set members from nook and crannies of its area of existence there is need to engage in some activities aimed at attracting people into the organization hence the need for strategies for the promotion of cooperative awareness among members of the public. Cooperative awareness is the process of making cooperative widely known through public notice as result of announcement, advertising or other measures leaflets, films etc intended to attract public notice and due to the fact that cooperative cannot be organized in secret among a few people, within in a family or an exclusive club. The Cooperative principle of open membership is the free access for every body who want to take part in the society. No one is prevented to be a member. If he\she is of good character in the community. All interested human beings are admitted as a member as much as they are able to use the Cooperative Services should be allowed to become member through a publicity campaign.
In Collective Courage, Jessica Gordon Nembhard chronicles African American cooperative business ownership and its place in the movements for Black civil rights and economic equality. Not since W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1907 Economic Co-operation Among Negro Americans has there been a full-length, nationwide study of African American cooperatives. Collective Courage extends that story into the twenty-first century. Many of the players are well known in the history of the African American experience: Du Bois, A. Philip Randolph and the Ladies' Auxiliary to the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Jo Baker, George Schuyler and the Young Negroes’ Co-operative League, the Nation of Islam, and the Black Panther Party. Adding the cooperative movement to Black history results in a retelling of the African American experience, with an increased understanding of African American collective economic agency and grassroots economic organizing. To tell the story, Gordon Nembhard uses a variety of newspapers, period magazines, and journals; co-ops’ articles of incorporation, minutes from annual meetings, newsletters, budgets, and income statements; and scholarly books, memoirs, and biographies. These sources reveal the achievements and challenges of Black co-ops, collective economic action, and social entrepreneurship. Gordon Nembhard finds that African Americans, as well as other people of color and low-income people, have benefitted greatly from cooperative ownership and democratic economic participation throughout the nation’s history.
This book explores the evolution of agricultural marketing cooperatives within the framework of competitive strategy analysis. It also explores issues of horizontal and vertical integration and product differentiation by discussing new strategic directions that cooperatives might pursue.
The economic crisis in sub - Saharan Africa presents a major challenge to donors and to policy-makers. After an initial period of growth following independence, most African economies faltered, then failed. Repressed producer prices, inefficient public marketing boards, and weak government commitment have often been blamed for the poor performance of agriculture, Africa's most important sector. Thus, since the mid-1980s, many structural adjustment programs have emphasized price and marketing reforms, and countries have liberalized the marketing and pricing of major food crops. These reforms have improved the performance of the agricultural sector, but the effects on growth and real income have not met expectations. Deficient infrastructure, inadequate access to inputs and credit, poor extension services, and inefficient marketing systems constrain the effective expansion of production. There must be reforms that specifically address these constraints. This paper examines the reasons behind successful and unsuccessful experiences with rural co-ops and reevaluates the potential for remedying the major problems. It briefly explains the motivation for and effectiveness of rural co-ops in developed countries through the example of the Dutch. It then focuses on the development of rural cooperatives in sub - Saharan Africa and on the main issues and problems, including internal and external constraints.
Co-operatives provide a different approach to organizing business through their ideals of member ownership and democratic practice. Every co-operative member has an equal vote regardless of his or her own personal capital investment. The contemporary significance of co-operatives was highlighted by the United Nations declaration of 2012 as the International Year of Co-operatives. This book provides an international perspective on the development of co-operatives since the mid-nineteenth century, exploring the economic, political, and social factors that explain their varying fortunes and transformation into different forms. By looking at what co-operatives are; how they have changed; the developments as well as the persecutions of the co-operative movement; and how it is an important force in promoting development and self-sufficiency in non-industrialized areas, this book provides valuable insight not only to academics, but also to practitioners and policy makers.