Equity Valuation for New Generation Cooperatives

South Africa’s new Cooperatives Act: A missed opportunity for small farmers and land reform beneficiaries

Agricultural cooperatives are often viewed as appropriate vehicles to facilitate vertical coordination with, or horizontal integration between, small farmers who would otherwise be excluded from value-adding opportunities and discerning markets. In South Africa, renewed interest in development-oriented cooperatives saw the introduction of a new Cooperatives Act in 2005, along with support measu...

Positioning California’s Agricultural Cooperatives for the Future

Recent issues of ARE Update featured articles evaluating the failures of two California marketing cooperatives, Tri Valley Growers (TVG) and Rice Growers Association (RGA). Along with Blue Anchor’s dissolution and Calavo’s conversion, these combined events have created doubts about the future of cooperatives in California agriculture. Restructured forms of cooperatives are emerging. For example...

Valuation of Transferable Delivery Rights for Marketing Cooperatives

Promising Practices: How cooperatives work for working women in Africa

Due to the values, including equality and equity, solidarity, social responsibility, and caring for others, upon which they are based and principles that they embody voluntary and open membership, democratic member control, member economic participation, member education, and concern for the community their very mandate places cooperatives in a unique position to ensure and promote gender equal...

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Excessive leverage is one of the most important problems facing Italian agricultural cooperatives as the competition in the EU intensifies. An empirical study of 500 agricultural cooperatives supports the hypothesis that cooperatives characterized as having “powerful managers” have a capital structure that is significantly different from the “nonpowerful manager” cooperatives. Powerful manager ...