This paper examines the impacts of access to extension services and cooperative membership on technology adoption, asset ownership and poverty using household-level data from rural Nigeria. Using different matching techniques and endogenous switching regression approach, we find that both extension access and cooperative membership have a positive and statistically significant effect on technol...

most of the population of nigeria is rural and agriculture is the mainstay of the impoverished people’s livelihood. this paper estimated the determinants of rural poverty in nigeria using the tobit regression model. through the multistage sampling technique, primary data were obtained from 150 rural farming households using a questionnaire. the result of tobit regression analysis shows that inc...

This study uses a meta-analysis to synthesize the effects of agricultural cooperative membership on yield crops and livestock. It collects 158 estimated from 42 studies, covering 19 developing countries. Our analysis finds evidence that there exists positive publication bias in empirical literature, confirming researchers journals have preference publish articles report significant results. Aft...

This paper presents the architecture and the design of a distributed videoconferencing application called N-TSVS. The structure of the cooperative groups supported by NTSVS is defined and modelled by graphs: their vertices describe the group members and their edges represent the information sharing between the cooperative agents. The group dynamicity is modelled by valid configurations that are...

The performance of women agribusiness cooperatives in Oyo State, Nigeria was assessed in this study. The study employed a multi-stage sampling technique to select 6 women cooperative groups (aggregating to 175 individuals); 36 individual women; and 4 institutions across 6 LGAs in two agricultural zones of the State. Findings show that majority (55.6%) of the respondents belong to processing org...