Matter of People: Co-Operative Dairying in India and Zimbabwe

India's "Anand pattern" dairy co-operatives are widely used as a developmental model for dairy farming in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. However, they have been criticized for their limited benefits to the poorest members of society, their effects on rural women's work, and their use of capital-intensive imported technology. This book assesses the Kheda dairy co-operative in Gujarat that was the inspiration for the Anand pattern, and uses case studies from the Indian state of Kerala to question the current drive to replicate the Anand pattern. Shanti George also presents a discussion of the successful Choryasi dairy co-operative that, unlike Kheda, uses intermediate technology, but has not been replicated or adopted as a model. He then shifts his focus to Africa, where the Dairy Development Programme has tried to learn from the Anand pattern and from its critics. George's study stresses the human factor in development planning, and argues that this must be considered when trying to devise optimally productive co-operatives.George, Shanti is the author of 'Matter of People: Co-Operative Dairying in India and Zimbabwe' with ISBN 9780195631661 and ISBN 0195631668.