Moshi Co-operative University Institutional Repository [MoCU IR]: Recent submissions

  • Examining the economic potential of tree planting for sustainable wood energy production and consumption in developing countries 
    Kulindwa, Yusuph J. (University of Dar es Salaam, 2017)
    Despite the fact that Indigenous forests are deacresing and demand for wood energy is increasing in developing countries, tree-planting activities are not expanding significantly, particularly in Tanzania. In this paper, ...
  • Effective Supervision of Research Students 
    Jonathan, Samuel (Moshi University College of Co-operative and Business Studies, 2006)
    Supervision of research students is commonly regarded as advisory. The shift of emphasis to the teaching and managerial roles is a new phenomenon. This study has applied the situational leadership model to the activity ...
  • Assessment of the Performance of the National Health Insurance Fund 
    Kimantbo, E. E; Nlcini, Melickzedek G. (Moshi University College of Co-operative and Business Studies, 2009)
    Tanzania. like many other African countries. has nearly half the health system financing coming from households. The government and development partners contribute approximately 45% of total health system financing out ...
  • Assessment of Sustainability of Farmers’ Organisations in Malawi 
    Kumburu, Neema P. (Moshi University College of Co-operative and Business Studies, 2009)
    The study sought to assess the sustainability of rural producer organisation in Malawi with reference to NASFAM member of Rural Producer Organisations in Kasungu and Mchinji District Central Malawi. A semi-structured ...
  • Analysis of Factors Influencing Producers, Traders and Consumers’ Intake of Traditional African Vegetables 
    Kimambo, Johnson J. (Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, 2016)
    The contribution of Traditional African Vegetables (TAVs) to reduction of malnutrition, stunting and poor health among consumers in Sub-Saharan Africa cannot be overemphasized. This is due to high contents of vitamins, ...
  • Impact of Co-operative Financial Services on Growth and Development of Small Businesses in Tanzania 
    Ngugi, Daniel (Moshi University College of Co-operative and Business Studies, 2011)
    The concept of informal cooperatives has aroused considerable interest in recent years. Several studies on the subject show that on average, over 80% of business finance for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) comes from ...
  • Governance in Co-operatives and the Competitive Business Environment in Africa 
    Danda, Eligius B.; Bamanyisa, Mushumbusi (Moshi University College of Co-operative and Business Studies, 2011)
    Organizations, mostly agricultural-based, have pioneered the provision of important social and services for their members, albeit to some limited extent largely in rural Africa as well as in urban Rural smallholder ...
  • Effects of Climate Change on Cooperative Development 
    Mangasini, A. K.; Muhandeni, M. R. (Moshi University College of Cooperative and Business Studies, 2011)
    Climate change poses serious challenges on the social and economic development of various worldwide. Such challenges are much more severe in developing countries. To attain Tanzanian's development Vision 2025, an ...
  • Co-operative Banking in Tanzania 
    Makwabe, Elizabeth C. (Moshi Co-operative University, 2011)
    This paper builds upon recent advances in the cooperative banking in Tanzania which tends to extend and complement the economic growth through co operatives. The main objective of this paper is to show from the practitioner's ...
  • Cooperative Association as a Tool for Rural Development and Poverty Reduction in Rwanda 
    Adebayo, S. T .; Chinedum, Onuoha H.; Dabo, Christopher S.P.; Pascal, H. (Kabale University Uganda, 2011)
    This study examined cooperative association as a strategy for rural development and property reduction in Rwanda. Case study of cooperative Abahuzamugambi ba Kawa based in Maraba sector, Huye District in southern province. ...
  • The Role of Social and Solidarity Economy in Developing Countries 
    Bee, E K. (Moshi University College of Co-operative and Business Studies, 2011)
    There is a growing consensus that Social and Solidarity Economy (SSEs) play significant roles in socio-economic, cultural, and political development in many countries worldwide. However, there is no common definition of ...
  • The Role of Community Co-operative Associations in Coping with Effects of Climate Change for Sustaining Wildlife Management Ares (WMAs), in Tanzania 
    Wambura, John M.; Wambura, Raphael M. (Sokoine University of Agriculture, 2011)
    Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) are member village-based conservation co-operative organization(s) set up of socio-economic aims with user rights of wildlife resources within it. In recent years increasingly featuring ...
  • The Role and Challenges of the New Co-operatives and Informal Cooperatives in Socio - Economic Development Policy 
    Tenaw, Shimelles (University of Helsinki, 2014)
    The International Co-operative Alliance (ICA), the apex organization that represents cooperatives worldwide adopted in 1995 a statement on cooperative identity with the inclusion of a revised set of principals which were ...
  • The Global Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impacts on Cooperatives 
    Ngowi, Honest P. (Mzumbe University Dar Es Salaam Business School, 2011)
    This paper is on the 2008 global financial and economic crisis (GFEC) that officially started in the United States of America (USA) in September2008 and its impacts on cooperatives. The author identifies and discusses ...
  • Role of Linkage Banking in the Expansion of Financial Services Savings and Credit Cooperative Societies (SACCOS) Banking 
    Kaleshu, Jones T. (Moshi University College of Co-operative and Business Studies, 2011)
    Linkages banking practices between SACCOS and commercial banks are intended to transform the less formal institutions by embracing their lending capacities and procedures. The study of three employee based SACCOS in Moshi ...
  • Land Use. Co-Operatives and Climate Change Nexus 
    Seimu, Somo, M.L.; Kulindwa, Yusufu (Moshi University College of Co-operative and Business Studies, 2011)
    Over the last decade there has been increasing in the impact of global use. Much of the land use in SubSharan Africa is a result of human activities that are largely driven by the demand for more land to meet and improve ...
  • Innovations Case Study and Food Security 
    Namuhisa, Agnes (Moshi University College of Co-operative and Business Studies, 2011)
    From 2009 TEC undertook a series of its 24 member country case studies to evaluate the innovations arid impacts on agricultural trade and food security in Tanzania. The objectives of these studies were to assess extent ...
  • Threats to Traditional Agricultural Knowledge Systems in Ruvuma Region 
    Komba, Cyril K. (Moshi Co-operative University, 2019)
    Ngoro farming system is the traditional farming system which conserves the environment (especilly soil erosion), and at the same time it enhances soil productivity. It is traditionally protected by the Matengo people in ...
  • Human Resource Development in Co-operatives 
    Kumburu, Neema P.; Nzilano, Kelvin L.; Mwita, Kelvin M. (Moshi University College of Co-operative and Business Studies, 2010)
    Co-operative institutions exist worldwide and provide essential services which would otherwise be not affordable by low-income cadre, particularly from rural areas. Savings and Credit Cooperative Societies (SACCOS,) as ...
  • Financial Sector Reforms and Commercial Banks Efficiency 
    Massambu, D.M.; Mataba, S.J.M.; Bamanyisa, J.M. (Moshi University College of Co-operative and Business Studies, 2010)
    This study examines the improvement of the efficiency and performance pf the NBC Limited in the face of the financial sector reforms programmes currently being implemented in Tanzania. The thrust of the study is to ...

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