Utilization of agricultural technologies plays a crucial role in enhancing the productivity and income smallholder dairy farmers. However, uptake these is low among majority farmers especially developing countries. Using survey data from 682 households Murang'a County Kenya, this study examines determinants intensity use artificial insemination, deworming, vaccination, curative treatment, impro...

This article gives a thorough investigation into the mosque-based cooperative business model, its guiding principles, and possible effects on community small medium-sized companies (SMEs). Mosques have historically played an important role in development social cohesion as well serving religious organizations. In recent years, increasing number of mosques throughout world embraced idea economy,...

Black farmers in America have had a long and arduous struggle to own land and to operate independently. For more than a century after the Civil War, deficient civil rights and various economic and social barriers were applied to maintaining a system where many blacks worked as farm operators with a limited and often total lack of opportunity to achieve ownership and operating independence. Dimi...

Over the years since their meager beginnings, agribusiness cooperatives in the U.S. have compiled a checkered history of both praise and condemnation. Some observers have argued that cooperatives no longer communicate with, nor represent the best interests of their farmer members. Some critics suggest that cooperatives have stymied, or at least diffused, free market transactions in the agricult...

Agricultural cooperatives are producer-owned and controlled organizations to improve farmers’ livelihoods by correcting market failure. They support collective activities where individual incentives insufficient produce public goods. The government of Nepal has been investing economic resources in this sector, prioritizing as part a strategy for poverty reduction. This study examines poor acces...

Fadil, M., Farah, A., Haloui, T., Rachiq, S. Diagnosis of the aromatic and medicinal plant sector in Morocco: Case of the cooperatives and associations of the Meknès-Tafilalt area. Lazaroa 35: 155-165 (2014). The cooperatives and associations in the medicinal and aromatic plant (MAP) sector are completely dependent on the pressure of market demand, and their products need to comply with require...

The future of energy generation is expected to become increasingly decentralized. Today, many customers are already more than demand units, they also act as energy producers (prosumers) and thus active participants in the energy market. The development of energy cooperatives in recent years undermines this observation. Information and communication technologies (ICT) enable management of energy...

The cooperative movement, a business initiative in its own right, operates the market according to unique set of principles that promote user ownership, control and benefit. However, despite value system emphasizes social wellbeing, image it has developed minds customers over time is apparently trouble, due backlash from neoliberal economy promotes consumerism. Against this backdrop, current re...