Co-operative Societies in Tanzania are regulated by, among other things, the Co-operative legislations. The latter represents the legal framework for the regulation of the co-operative societies. Co-operative legislations ...

This study examined application of financial management in co-operatives. Specifically, the study intended to examine whether co-operatives adhere to financial management tools and to examine the challenges facing co-operatives ...

There is a widely held consensus among many actors, including the UN (1996), the ILO (1995, 2000, and 2014) and the ICA (1995, 2013), that the co-operative is the type of enterprise that is most suited to addressing all ...

Although the literature demonstrates that cooperatives play an important role in agriculture by providing a diverse range of opportunities, the impact on smallholder farmers remains unsatisfactory. Reviewing literature ...

A Co-operative society is a community organization formed by joint effort voluntarily by people of the same objectives. Its agenda is usually based on locally determined proposals whose aims are to empower citizens to ...

SACCOS play a major role of providing financial access to poor people who are excluded from the services of Formal Financial Institutions (FFIs). However, they also face number of challenges which may affect their ...

This paper investigates the extent to which world market price changes are transmitted through changes in border prices into local producer prices for four agricultural product markets in Tanzania: sugar, cotton, wheat and ...

Purpose: Refugee issues are international emergency significantly disrupting socio-economic structure of the receiving States and governments struggling to manage the impact of a nearby conflict and addressing development ...

Improving rural livelihoods remains a challenge due to subsistence production. This study uses 206 surveys to assess whether smallholders can go commercial. We conducted the surveys in eight villages of the southern highlands ...