Although the literature demonstrates that cooperatives play an important role in agriculture by providing a diverse range of opportunities, the impact on smallholder farmers remains unsatisfactory. Reviewing literature ...

The Communication Strategy (CS) for the Sustainable Land Management (SLM) project essentially sets out the overall framework on how the SLM project communicates and engages with its audiences over the project implementation ...

Satisfaction of members with services offered by co-operatives is key for a co-operative success. However, it remains questionable whether co-operatives have really achieved their expected objectives. This paper analysed ...

Sugarcane Contract Farming (CF) has been mentioned to be an important practice and an engine for improving livelihoods among farmers in Africa. However, in Tanzania there has been limited research on explaining the impact ...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of co-operative characteristics on the financial performance of Irish Potato Farmer Co-operatives (IPFCs) in Northern and Western Provinces, of Rwanda. ...

Rural development has recently gained extensive attention mainly in developing countries where the substantial majority of the people live in rural areas and they essentially depend on farm activities. The nexus between ...

In this paper, Church and non-Church businesses are economic activities that contribute to the country’s social and economic development whereby participants are involved in activities with the intention of generating ...

This study aimed at evaluating Small Christian Community (SCC) participation in managing development projects of the Catholic Diocese of Moshi. Concurrent triangulation design was employed. Simple random technique was ...

Contract farming (CF) promises many benefits for sugarcane outgrowers in many cases. However, studies debate on whether sugarcane smallholder farmers get quality services from CF relations. As a response to the debates, ...

Church and Non-Church businesses lack adequate financial management strategies which has been an impediment for survival and growth. This paper aims at making a comparative analysis on the performance of Church and ...