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Lyne, Michael C.; Collins, Ray. |
Agricultural cooperatives are often viewed as appropriate vehicles to facilitate vertical coordination with, or horizontal integration between, small farmers who would otherwise be excluded from value-adding opportunities and discerning markets. In South Africa, renewed interest in development-oriented cooperatives saw the introduction of a new Cooperatives Act in 2005, along with support measures dedicated to ‘emerging’ cooperatives. This paper contends that the architects of the new Act discounted important trends in international legislation that would have made development-oriented cooperatives more versatile and given their members better access to capital and expertise through equity partnerships with private agribusiness firms. It is concluded that... |
Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural cooperatives; Small farmers; New institutional economics; Strategic partnerships; Land reform beneficiaries. |
Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/37551 |
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Nganya, P.; Lyne, Michael C.; Ferrer, Stuart R.D.. |
The new Cooperatives Act 14 of 2005 was promulgated in August 2005 to promote the development of sustainable cooperatives in South Africa and their use as a vehicle to develop small enterprises. This paper uses the new institutional economics (NIE) to highlight problems created by the Act. Case studies were done of three producer groups in KwaZulu-Natal that formally registered as cooperatives after August 2005. It is clear that the cooperative model was adopted because it was seen as a precondition for government support. All of these cooperatives displayed symptoms of institutional problems and two of them had mitigated these problems by shedding their poorest members and creating their own rules to reward investors with capital gains. The first of these... |
Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural cooperatives; Cooperatives Act; New institutional economics; Case study; Institutional and Behavioral Economics. |
Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61996 |
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