Cuban producer and worker cooperatives’ governance systems have certain features that set them apart from their counterparts in other countries, such as the frequency broader mandates of general assemblies, inclusion managers workers members, no clear division between boards directors management. While this research did not seek to identify factors led these particularities, it focused on ident...

the aim of this paper is to investigate the role of producer cooperatives (pcs) on rural development in fars, khorasan, semnan, golestan and hamadan provinces of iran in 2007. more specifically, this paper focuses on the economic aspects and social changes occurred in rural area concerning the cooperatives development. in order to measure quantitatively the effectiveness of economic and social ...

This paper examines the contextual nature of gendered livelihood strategies through a comparative study of rural women=s producer groups in former homelands of South Africa and Appalachia. This comparative approach situates gendered livelihood strategies in distinct local contexts that are constituted by specific historical dynamics and cultural relations. Producer groups are defined here as co...

Producer Alliances and Value-Added Business Ventures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Soybean Production: Competitive Positions of the United States, Brazil, and Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Weather and Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Farmland Lease Law Update . . . . . . 12 he food industry is undergoing significant structural changes, as the industrialization of agriculture con...

Modern retail markets have grown in Cambodia, but vegetable growers are unlikely to gain benefits from these high value (HVMs). Producer cooperatives (PCs) could play a critical role linking smallholder farmers HVMs. The purpose of this paper is: (1) examine the PCs producers HVMs; and (2) analyse factors affecting successful participation This study applied mixed methods approach selling membe...

This special issue features 14 new research papers investigating the role of farmers’ organizations (e.g., collective action, self-help groups, producer companies/organizations, and cooperatives) in supporting sustainable development. The key findings include: (1) farmer groups cooperatives promote adoption good farm management practices, agricultural technologies farming although not substanti...

Cooperatives are considered resilient enterprises in times of crisis, partly due to their social logic as eminent through cooperative values and principles, such democratic governance. Increasingly, capital theory has been applied study cooperatives’ relationships. In this chapter, we focus on the organizational level (Leana Buren Academy Management Review 24:538–555, 1999), asking how three di...

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 ...