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Improving Institutional Capacity:
Strengthening Farmer Organizations in the OIC Member Countries
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Figure 5: Estimated share of farmers belonging to rural co-operatives in seven comparison
countries
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In addition to the 19 OIC countries above for which a membership share can be calculated,
analysis generated estimates of the total number of registered farmer organizations for 10
others. This statistic is a bit more difficult to interpret but this study attempts to put it into
context by showing the number of farmer organizations
per 10,000 people in the
agricultural labor force
. This data for 23 countries is shown below: 13 countries from the
figure above, plus the 10 countries where only data for the number of cooperatives is available.
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Sources for this figure are:
Thailand:
Cooperatives and Poverty reduction in Thailand, Suwanna Thuvachote, Kasetsart
University, Bangkok, Thailand;
Vietnam:
UN Population Division
Ghana:
Farmer’s organizations in West and Central Africa:
Ghana Country report;
Ethiopia
: http://www.ata.gov.et/programs/system-programs/cooperatives/ and ILO Country
Report
Kenya:
ILO Country Report
Brazil
: National Cooperative Organization Brazil (OCB).
Japan:
International
Cooperative Alliance. World Bank data was used for population statistics