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Social networks and access to soybean value chains in rural Mozambique
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
Mozambique is one of the poorest, malnourished and foreign aid dependent countries in Africa. About half of its 27 million people live below poverty in the rural areas and depend on agriculture. Over the last ten years, Mozambique has witness...
Economic and social foundations of collective action : an inter-disciplinary institutional approach to Mexican dairy farmers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This research uses an interdisciplinarian neo-institutional approach to examine formal and informal institutional factors that influence dairy farmers' ideas about participation in collective action in the "Altos Sur" ...
Social capital and membership in dairy cooperatives in Kenya
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
Dairy cooperatives in Kenya have been promoted for over 50 years as an important mechanism for providing collective bargaining power for the rural poor (Dobrin, 1970; Musalia, et al, 2007). The cooperative business model ...