IFPRI key facts series: Agricultural cooperatives

Chimwemwe Banda and Jan Duchoslav

No May 2023, MaSSP key facts from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: Highlights • There is an operational agricultural cooperative in every tenth community in Malawi, but they are not well utilized to access markets or services. • Almost no farmers (0.6 percent in 2019/20) receive extension advice through cooperatives. • Although an increasing share of farmers engage in input and output markets, few do so through cooperatives. • Few farmers buy inputs on credit in general, and almost none receive credit from cooperatives. • Farmers who buy inputs from cooperatives do not pay less than farmers who buy inputs elsewhere. • Farmers who sell their produce to cooperatives also do not obtain better prices than farmers who sell to other buyers.

Keywords: agricultural cooperatives; markets; farmers; extension services; inputs; credit; agricultural products; prices; Malawi; Africa; Eastern Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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