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

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Title Determinants of Economic Gains from Crop Production in Africa: The Case of Smallholder Group Farmers in the Democratic Republic of Congo
 
Creator Birachi, Eliud Abucheli
Ochieng, D.
Owuor, G.
Buruchara, Robin A.
Ochieng, J.
Mapatano, S.
 
Subject CROP PRODUCTION
SMALLHOLDERS
FARMERS
 
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.
 
Date 2018-06-01T14:42:35Z
2018-06-01T14:42:35Z
2011
 
Type Poster
 
Identifier 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.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/93000
 
Language en
 
Format 1 p.
 
Publisher Centro International de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT)