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The role of rural producer organizations for agricultural service provision in fragile states
Author(s) -
Ragasa Catherine,
Golan Jennifer
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.29
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1574-0862
pISSN - 0169-5150
DOI - 10.1111/agec.12105
Subject(s) - closeness , agriculture , business , corporate governance , service (business) , affect (linguistics) , service delivery framework , democracy , survey data collection , economic growth , economics , marketing , finance , politics , political science , mathematical analysis , ecology , linguistics , philosophy , statistics , mathematics , law , biology
This article assesses the extent of external linkages and the provision of agricultural services by rural producer organizations in a post‐conflict setting. Using new survey data collected by the International Food Policy Research Institute in three provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, this study finds that various internal and external factors affect the capacity of organizations to interact with external organizations. External linkages, ability to collect financial support from their members, management capacity, and formal governance structures all contribute to explaining relative performance in agricultural service delivery. We also find that exogenous events affect the relative performance of rural producer organizations. Our results suggest that closeness to conflict reduces the capacity of producer organizations to provide agricultural services.