Co-operatives and Collective Action: Case of a Rubber Grower Co-operative in East Garo Hills in Meghalaya, North East India

Growing evidences demonstrate that the mountainous societies in South and Southeast Asian countries are underway of dynamic agrarian transition in the context of market integration leading to emergence of market-responsive farm- livelihood systems. However, the livelihoods of these communities remain to be at stake and highly vulnerable to the market forces in the absence or failure of effective state support and institutional interventions facilitating mobilisation for collective action and thereby internalise the positive outcomes of market integration. [Working Paper No. 189]