Smallholder Marketing Cooperatives and Smallholders' Market Access: Lessons Learned from the Actors Involved

Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 369-385

  Gouët, Christian ^a,b   van Paassen, Annemarie ^b  

^a Farmers' Organizations Agriculture and Rural Development   (France)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agribusiness; Cooperatives; Farmers; Market access; Organizations; Smallholders

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864681931     PISSN: 1389224X     EISSN: 17508622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1389224X.2012.691784     Document Type: Article

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