Abstract. Let (M, g0) be a closed Riemannian manifold of dimension n, for 3 ≤ n ≤ 7, and non-negative Ricci curvature. Let g = φ 2 g0 be a metric in the conformal class of g0. We show that there exists a smooth closed embedded minimal hypersurface in (M, g) of volume bounded by C(n)V n−1 n , where V is the total volume of (M, g). When Ric(M, g0) ≥ −(n − 1) we obtain a similar bound with constant C depending only on n and the volume of (M, g0).Our second result concerns manifolds (M, g) of positive Ricci curvature and dimension at most seven. We obtain an effective version of a theorem of F. C. Marques and A. Neves on the existence of infinitely many minimal hypersurfaces on (M, g) . We show that for any such manifold there exists k minimal hypersurfaces of volume at most CnV sys n−1 (M ), where V denotes the volume of (M, g0) and sys n−1 (M ) is the smallest volume of a non-trivial minimal hypersurface.