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IFPRI key facts series: Agricultural cooperatives
MaSSP Key Facts | 2023 | Pages: 3
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Citation
Banda, Chimwemwe; and Duchoslav, Jan. 2023. IFPRI key facts series: Agricultural cooperatives. MaSSP Key Facts May 2023. Lilongwe, Malawi: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/136712
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.