The role of rural producer organizations for agricultural service provision in fragile states

Agricultural Economics (United Kingdom)

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 537-553

  Ragasa, Catherine ^a   Golan, Jennifer ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Collective action; Democratic republic of the Congo; Post conflict; Producer organizations; Structural equation model

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS; COLLECTIVE ACTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; FINANCIAL PROVISION; FOOD POLICY; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORK; RESEARCH INSTITUTION; RURAL ECONOMY; RURAL POLICY; SERVICE PROVISION; SURVEY;

CONGO;

EID: 84904631854     PISSN: 01695150     EISSN: 15740862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/agec.12105     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Agarwal, B., 2001. Participatory exclusions, community forestry, and gender: An analysis for South Asia and a conceptual framework. World Dev. 29(10), 1623-1648.
2. Agarwal, B., 2009. Rule making in community forestry institutions: The difference women make. Ecol. Econ. 68(8/9), 2296-2308.
3. Agarwal, B., 2010. Does women's proportional strength affect their participation? Governing local forests in South Asia. World Dev. 38(1), 98-112.
4. Attwood, D., Baviskar, B., 1987. Why do some co-operatives work but not others? A comparative analysis of sugar co-operatives in India. Econ. Polit. Weekly 22(26), A38-A45.
5. Barham, J., Chitemi, C., 2009. Collective action initiatives to improve marketing performance: Lessons from farmer groups in Tanzania. Food Policy 34, 53-59.
6. Bellows, J., Miguel, E., 2009. War and local collective action in Sierra Leone. J. Public Econ. 93(11/12), 1144-1157.
7. Berdegué, J., 2001. Cooperating to compete - Associative peasant business firms in Chile. Doctoral Dissertation, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
8. Bernard, T., Collion, M.-H., de Janvry, A., Rondot, P., 2008a. Do village organizations make a difference in African rural development? A study for Senegal and Burkina Faso. World Dev. 36(11), 2188-2204.
9. Bernard, T., de Janvry, A., Sadoulet, E., 2009. When does community conservatism constrain village organizations? Econ. Dev. Cult. Change 58(4), 609-641.
10. Bernard, T., Spielman, D.J., 2009. Reaching the rural poor through rural producer organizations? A study of agricultural marketing cooperatives in Ethiopia. Food Policy 34(1), 60-69.
11. Bernard, T., Taffesse, A.S., Gabre-Madhin, E.Z., 2008b. Impact of cooperatives on smallholders' commercialization behavior: Evidence from Ethiopia. Agric. Econ. 39(2), 147-161.
12. Bianchi, T., 2002. Leaders and intermediaries as economic development agents in producers' associations. In: Heyer, J., Stewart, F., Thorp, R. (Eds.), Group Behavior and Development. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
13. Cook, M.L., Chambers, M., 2007. The role of agricultural cooperatives in global net chains. Working paper presented at the workshop organized by INRA-MOISA and Wageningen University, Montpellier, France.
14. Cramer, C., 2006. Civil War Is Not a Stupid Thing. Hurst, London.
15. Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), 2007. Demographic and Health Survey 2007: Key Findings. National Statistics Institute, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.
16. Fox, J., 2002. Structural equation models. In: Fox, J. (Ed.), An R and S-PLUS Companion to Applied Regression. Sage Publications, Inc., California.
17. Francesconi, G.N., Heerink, N., 2009. Linking smallholders to commodity exchange: The role of agricultural cooperatives in Ethiopia. In: Francesconi, G.N. (Ed.), Cooperation for Competition: Linking Ethiopian Farmers to Markets. International Chains and Networks Series. Vol. 5. Wageningen Academic, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
18. Gotschi, E., Njuki, J., Delve, R., 2008. Gender equity and social capital in smallholder farmer groups in Central Mozambique. Dev. Pract. 18(4/5), 650-657.
19. Hellin, J., Lundy, M., Meijer, M., 2007. Farmer organization, collective action and market access in Meso-America. CAPRi Working Paper No. 67, IFPRI, Washington, DC.
20. Hox, J.J., Bechger, T.M., 1998. An introduction to structural equation modeling. Family Sci. Rev. 11, 354-373.
21. Iacono, M., Krizek, K., El-Geneidy, A., 2008. Access to destinations: How close is close enough? Estimating accurate distance decay functions for multiple modes and different purposes. Technical Report No. 2008-11, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
22. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), 2011. Global Hunger Index. IFPRI, Washington, DC.
23. Jones, E., 2004. Wealth-based trust and the development of collective action. World Dev. 32(4), 691-711.
24. Karami, E., Rezaei-Moghaddam, K., 2005. Modeling determinants of agricultural production cooperatives' performance in Iran. Agric. Econ. 33(3), 305-314.
25. Krishna, A., 2001. Moving from the stock of social capital to the flow of benefits: The role of agency. World Dev. 29(6), 925-943.
26. Kupek, E., 2006. Beyond logistic regression: Structural equations modeling for binary variables and its application to investigating unobserved confounders. BMC Med. Res. Methodol. 6(13), 1-10.
27. Maccallum, R.C., Austin, J.T., 2000. Applications of structural equation modeling in psychological research. Annu. Rev. Psychol. 51, 201-226.
28. Madrigal, R., Alpízar, F., Schlüter, A., 2011. Determinants of performance of community-based drinking water organizations. World Dev. 39(9), 1663-1675.
29. Meinzen-Dick, R., 2009. Coordination in natural resource management. In: Kirsten, J.F., Dorward, A.R., Poulton, C., Vink, N. (Eds.), Institutional Economics Perspectives on African Agricultural Development. IFPRI, Washington, DC.
30. Meinzen-Dick, R., Knox, A., Di Gregorio, M. (Eds.), 2001. Collective Action, Property Rights, and Devolution of Natural Resource Management: Exchange of Knowledge and Implications for Policy. German Foundation for International Development/Food and Agriculture Development Centre, Feldafing.
31. Meinzen-Dick, R., Knox, A., Place, F., Swallow, B. (Eds.), 2002. Innovation in Natural Resource Management: The Role of Property Rights and Collective Action in Developing Countries. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
32. Montalvo, J.G., Reynal-Querol, M., 2005. Ethnic polarization, potential conflict, and civil wars. Am. Econ. Rev. 95(3), 796-816.
33. Pretty, J., Ward, H., 2001. Social capital and the environment. World Dev. 29(2), 209-227.
34. Rabe-Hesketh, S., Skrondal, A., Zheng, X., 2011. Multilevel structural equation modeling. In: Hoyle, R. (Ed.), Handbook of Structural Equation Modeling. Guilford, New York.
35. Ragasa, C., Babu, S.C., Ulimwengu, J., 2011. Institutional and capacity challenges in agricultural policy process: The case of Democratic Republic of Congo. IFPRI Discussion Paper Series 1066. IFPRI, Washington, DC.
36. Ragasa, C., Badibanga, T., Ulimwengu, J., 2012. Typology of rural producer organizations in western Democratic Republic of Congo. IFPRI Discussion Paper Draft. IFPRI, Washington, DC.
37. Ratner, B., Meinzen-Dick, R., May, C., Haglund, E., 2010. Resource conflict, collective action, and resilience: An analytical framework. CAPRi Working Paper No. 100, IFPRI, Washington, DC.
38. Salifu, A.G., Francesconi, G.N., Kolavalli, S., 2010. A review of collective action in Rural Ghana. IFPRI Discussion Paper No. 00998, IFPRI, Washington, DC.
39. Sharma, S., 1996. Applied Multivariate Techniques. John Wiley, New York.
40. Shiferaw, B., Kebede, T., Reddy, R., 2009. Enabling institutions, collective action and watershed management in semi-Arid India: Effects on natural resources and rural poverty. Paper prepared for presentation at the International Association of Agricultural Economists' Conference, Beijing, China, August 16-22.
41. Skrondal, A., Rabe-Hesketh, S., 2004. Generalized Latent Variable Modeling: Multilevel, Longitudinal and Structural Equation Models. Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, FL.
42. Tendler, J., 1983. What to think about cooperatives: A guide from Bolivia. Report for the Inter-American Foundation. Inter-American Foundation, Washington, DC.
43. Thompson, G.D., Wilson, P.N., 1994. Common property as an institutional response to environmental variability. Contemp. Econ. Policy 12, 10-21.
44. Tollens, E., 2004. The challenges of food security and export cash crops - main directions and comparative advantages of the agriculture in the DR Congo. Paper presented during the round table on "Towards an agricultural development and economic recovery strategy, " Kinshasa, DRC, March 19-20.
45. Uchida, H., Nelson, A., 2010. Agglomeration index: Towards a new measure of urban concentration. Working Paper No. 2010/29, United Nations University, World Institute for Development Economics Research, Helsinki, Finland.
46. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), 2011. Human Development Report 2011. UNDP, New York.
47. Unruh, J., 2002. Local land tenure in the peace process. Peace Rev. 14, 337-342.
48. Varughese, G., Ostrom, E., 2001. The contested role of heterogeneity in collective action: Some evidence from community forestry in Nepal. World Dev. 29(5), 747-765.
49. Voors, M., Nillesen, E., Verwimp, P., Bulte, E., Lensink, R., van Soest, D., 2010. Does conflict change preferences? Evidence from field experiments in Burundi. Households in Conflict Network (HiCN) Working Paper 71, The Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, United Kingdom, Forthcoming in Am. Econ. Review.
50. World Bank, 2011. Doing Business 2011. World Bank, Washington, DC.