Determinants of Economic Gains from Crop Production in Africa: The Case of Smallholder Group Farmers in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Measures to alleviate poverty among smallholder farmers in Africa have focused on individual farmers all through the 21st century. However, these have not yielded much success, forcing research and development organizations to focus their efforts on technological innovations and other interventions...

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Autores principales: Birachi, Eliud Abucheli, Ochieng, D., Owuor, G., Buruchara, Robin Arani, Ochieng, J., Mapatano, S.
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Publicado: International Center for Tropical Agriculture 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/93000
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author Birachi, Eliud Abucheli
Ochieng, D.
Owuor, G.
Buruchara, Robin Arani
Ochieng, J.
Mapatano, S.
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Buruchara, Robin Arani
Mapatano, S.
Ochieng, D.
Ochieng, J.
Owuor, G.
author_facet Birachi, Eliud Abucheli
Ochieng, D.
Owuor, G.
Buruchara, Robin Arani
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description Measures to alleviate poverty among smallholder farmers in Africa have focused on individual farmers all through the 21st century. However, these have not yielded much success, forcing research and development organizations to focus their efforts on technological innovations and other interventions through farmer groups. The potential gain in productivity through group interventions is a major factor underlying the need for developing countries to promote groups. Group actions are analyzed within the concept of collective action. Based on the new institutional economics approach, collective efforts solve societal problems, and focus on the conditions under which groups of people with common interests choose to act to achieve their respective interests (Clague, 1997). The farmer groups fill some of the gaps generated by this situation for example in input and output marketing.
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spelling CGSpace930002025-11-05T16:27:37Z Determinants of Economic Gains from Crop Production in Africa: The Case of Smallholder Group Farmers in the Democratic Republic of Congo Birachi, Eliud Abucheli Ochieng, D. Owuor, G. Buruchara, Robin Arani Ochieng, J. Mapatano, S. crop production smallholders farmers Measures to alleviate poverty among smallholder farmers in Africa have focused on individual farmers all through the 21st century. However, these have not yielded much success, forcing research and development organizations to focus their efforts on technological innovations and other interventions through farmer groups. The potential gain in productivity through group interventions is a major factor underlying the need for developing countries to promote groups. Group actions are analyzed within the concept of collective action. Based on the new institutional economics approach, collective efforts solve societal problems, and focus on the conditions under which groups of people with common interests choose to act to achieve their respective interests (Clague, 1997). The farmer groups fill some of the gaps generated by this situation for example in input and output marketing. 2011 2018-06-01T14:42:35Z 2018-06-01T14:42:35Z Poster https://hdl.handle.net/10568/93000 en Open Access application/pdf International Center for Tropical Agriculture Birachi, E., Ochieng, D., Owuor, G., Buruchara, R., Ochieng, J., Mapatano, S. ( ) Determinants of Economic Gains from Crop Production in Africa: The Case of Smallholder Group Farmers in the Democratic Republic of Congo. International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). Nairobi. KE, 1 p.
spellingShingle crop production
smallholders
farmers
Birachi, Eliud Abucheli
Ochieng, D.
Owuor, G.
Buruchara, Robin Arani
Ochieng, J.
Mapatano, S.
Determinants of Economic Gains from Crop Production in Africa: The Case of Smallholder Group Farmers in the Democratic Republic of Congo
title Determinants of Economic Gains from Crop Production in Africa: The Case of Smallholder Group Farmers in the Democratic Republic of Congo
title_full Determinants of Economic Gains from Crop Production in Africa: The Case of Smallholder Group Farmers in the Democratic Republic of Congo
title_fullStr Determinants of Economic Gains from Crop Production in Africa: The Case of Smallholder Group Farmers in the Democratic Republic of Congo
title_full_unstemmed Determinants of Economic Gains from Crop Production in Africa: The Case of Smallholder Group Farmers in the Democratic Republic of Congo
title_short Determinants of Economic Gains from Crop Production in Africa: The Case of Smallholder Group Farmers in the Democratic Republic of Congo
title_sort determinants of economic gains from crop production in africa the case of smallholder group farmers in the democratic republic of congo
topic crop production
smallholders
farmers
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/93000
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