Operational efficiency in wheat marketing

Agricultural Marketing Management

Marketing of milk

Livestock markets

Processed food products

Pricing efficiency in cardamom marketing t

Arecanut co-operative marketing system

Agricultural input

India's coffee marketing

It might seem impossible to compare developing Zimbabwe to a well developed Japanese agrarian, but a deeper examination of the two countries reveals numerous similarities especially in the agrarian sector (land reform, grain policy and the rural political economy). The thesis examined Japan's radical land reform and the development of her cooperatives in conjuction with the path taken by Zimbabwe leading to her land reform and beyond. The author collected and analyzed data from six villages, three in Japan, and three in Zimbabwe to understand different types of cooperatives, their growths, and constraints. The British-Indian type of cooperatives currently obtaining in Zimbabwe needs to be restructured.The central argument is that the FTLR, just as the land reform in Japan, increased the potential for the development of robust, genuine grassroots cooperatives from below. The new movement can learn a lot from Japan's 70-year experience in cooperative development. Based on a global political economy reading of agricultural production, the thesis selects the pros from the Japanese agricultural cooperative system and fuses it with knowledge systems from the Zimbabwe movement to advance an agricultural cooperative development framework for Zimbabwe and other post-colonial states. / 博士(グローバル社会研究) / Doctor of Philosophy in Global Society Studies / 同志社大学 / Doshisha University