'No person, no country in the world, irrespective of its stage of
development, is fully self-sufficient. Cooperation brings together
peoples and nations and facilitates peaceful co-existence.' So
begins Rural Cooperation In The Cooperative Movement In Tanzania,
what will undoubtedly be seen as a seminal work in the field. The
author has lectured a course on Rural Cooperation in Tanzania at
the University of Dar es Salaam for seven consecutive years, but
lack of appropriate books with adequate coverage of the course
content obliged him to conduct extensive research on cooperation
and cooperatives. The resulting book covers the entire field and
addresses the subject by providing a foundation on which wider
study can be based. It is intended to make its readers aware of the
strategies and challenges of cooperation and has a wider relevance,
as it will be useful to policy makers in the cooperative sector,
which is a significant part of the private sector in Tanzania, and
indeed in most African countries. By June 2008, there were 2614
agricultural marketing cooperative societies, 4780 savings and
credits cooperative societies, 71 livestock cooperative societies,
129 fishing cooperative societies, 11 housing cooperative
societies, 3 mining cooperative societies, 185 industrial
cooperative societies, 98 water irrigation cooperative societies, 4
transport cooperative societies, 103 consumer cooperative
societies, and 553 service and other cooperative societies;
perfectly illustrative of the movement's scope and the need to pay
it careful attention. The topics included make it appropriate for
use in Sociology, Rural Development, Marketing, Development Studies
and studies in other specialties in the Social Sciences. From an
exploration of the cooperative movement's various international
iterations to a perspicacious survey of the history of cooperatives
in Tanzania, Dr. Lyimo highlights the issues facing farmers and
business people and illustrates the way in which cooperative
effort- enterprises that put people, and not capital, at the center
of their business- can not only improve members' economic power in
bargaining for better marketing conditions and prices, but also to
increase employment opportunities, thereby improving the standard
of living for a large number of people. In these times of penury
and economic disenfranchisement, this book not only fills the
information gap, but provides, in the ultimate chapters,
'Procedures for Organizing a Cooperative Society', and 'Managing
Rural Cooperative Societies', the basic principles and advice for
those considering the cooperative model as the best means of
improving their economic viability.
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