Village food co-operatives as institutions of rural uplift |
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| Authors: | Nebasina Ngwa Dr |
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| Institution: | (1) Geography Department, University of Yaounde, BP 755, Yaounde, Republic of Cameroon |
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| Abstract: | Most Third World Rural Areas produce sufficient quantities of foodstuffs that could be sold in the village and urban markets.
Unfortunately, well structured channels for such an undertaking are almost inexistent. Agro-pastoral and craft products are
often stock-piled and are rotting in one locality while next door there is scarcity. The problem is that of organized distribution.
The result is that the villages and production zones remain reservoirs of misery, poverty, low savings and investments. Food
co-operatives which involve production groups in specialized zones can be guided within this context to function as gateways
to rural modernization processes. High degree in socio-economic, political, religious and other developmental domains can
be attained if the grass root and/or farm groups within the villages are given organizational and financial support in such
a way that their meagre but regular co-operative savings are deposited in viable urban financial institutions for future investments.
They would thus be inproving on quality and quantity agro-pastoral and craft products for onward sales within an ever positive
bargaining power. |
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