Agriculture Marketing Cooperatives Roles in Enhancing Food Security Resilience in Africa
Evidence from Tanzania Practice.
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Agricultural Marketing Cooperatives, Food Security, Smallholder farmersAbstract
Agricultural cooperatives play a crucial role in ensuring food security, particularly for smallholder farmers in developing countries. The global growing population leads to food security challenges; cooperatives have a niche intervention to overcome food security challenges. The paper answer five questions which are; what are the basic strategies used by agricultural cooperatives in improving food security? How can agricultural cooperative engage in crop diversification? What is the role of agricultural marketing cooperatives in improving household nutrition? What are the available strategic challenges faced by agricultural marketing cooperatives on their efforts to bring food security? The paper was based on community empowerment theory; where cooperative societies play a crucial role in achieving food security by empowering small producers. The paper adopts a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) to critically explore the agricultural marketing cooperatives roles in enhancing food security to build inference. In the sampling frame 307 were the Search documents and 54 were used as reference sample. The discussion found that, cooperative can be and had been used to bring food security by extending production, education of food production and the adoption of climate smart agriculture. Also, cooperatives were found to be a good model in advancing nutrition to smallholder farmers based on different programs. However, cooperative was faced with challenges on innovation, technological adoption and education on scientific farming. The paper concludes that, with education and awareness campaign on food production capacity increase, the factor food security resilient can be feasible. It is recommended that, cooperative movement need to be the ambassadors on developing education package relation to advancing food security using agriculture marketing models.
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