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Title: | The Role of Cooperatives in Rural Development in Kenya |
Authors: | Faaland, J. Jansen, E.G. |
Year: | 1979 |
Periodical: | Eastern Africa Journal of Rural Development |
Volume: | 12 |
Issue: | 1-2 |
Pages: | 85-106 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Kenya |
Subjects: | rural development cooperatives Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology Economics and Trade |
Abstract: | Introduction - Evolution of cooperatives in Kenya - Impact of cooperatives - Economic situation in Kenya and government policies on rural development - The Integrated Agricultural Development Programme (IADP) and the role of the cooperative movement within the Programme - Integrated cooperatives as vehicles of rural development - Summary and conclusion: Kenyan cooperatives have been given few and purely economic tasks to perform, and they should be able to aim higher than just to become successful as production and marketing societies, making the already rich and powerful more so, transforming some marginal farmers into relatively prosperous entrepreneurs, but leaving the poor and the already disadvantaged subsistence farmers and landless workers even further behind in under-development. The integrated cooperative societies as well as the IADP could be viewed as potentially important means to reach out through a cooperative structure to the whole of the rural population. However, the Cooperative Department and the Nordic Project that supports it appear to be lacking in interest and concern to use the institution of cooperatives for the purpose of reaching the rural poor. Notes, tab. |