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Originally published in 1993, this is a study of agricultural co-operatives. The farming structure in transition countries has shifted from dominance of large corporate farms to family smallholdings. Smallholders everywhere experience difficulties with access to market services, including sale of products, purchase of inputs, and acquisition of machinery; they suffer from credit shortages and have limited access to information and advisory services. The barriers to market access prevent smallholders from fully exploiting their inherent productivity advantages. Best-practice world experience highlights farmers' service cooperatives, created by grassroots users, as the most effective way of improving the market access of small farmers. Service cooperatives also help smallholders overcome market failures, when private business entrepreneurs are unwilling to provide services in areas that they judge unprofitable or unfairly exploit users through monopolistic practices. These difficulties and market failures are prominent in transition countries and scholars accordingly expected rapid development of agricultural service cooperatives in response to smallholder needs. The present volume explores gaps between expectations and reality.
Basic considerations; Efficiency with respect to social and economic development targets; Motivational and organizacional aspects of cooperative efficiency; Efficiency of different patterns of cooperative farming in developing regions; Efficiency of different of service and credit cooperatives; Imperatives for management and financing of cooperative enterprises; Prerequisites for cooperative efficiency within agricultural development projects; Vocational training and education required for members and personnel of cooperatives in developing countries.
Agricultural cooperatives and producer organizations are institutional innovations which have the potential to reduce poverty and improve food security. This book presents a raft of international case studies, from developing and transition countries, to analyse the internal and external challenges that these complex organizations face and the solutions that they have developed. The contributors provide an increased understanding of the transformation of traditional community organizations into modern farmer-owned businesses. They cover issues including: the impact on rural development and inclusiveness, the role of social capital, formal versus informal organizations, democratic participation and member relations, and their role in value chains. Students and scholars will find the book’s multidisciplinary approach useful in their research. It will also be of interest to policy-makers seeking to understand the wide diversity of organizational forms and functions. NGOs, donors and governments seeking to support rural developments will benefit from the discussions raised in this book.
Compilation of conference papers presented at a meeting on marketing aspects of rural cooperatives in developing countries - covers the cooperative system, marketing cooperatives, rural development, etc. Conference held in lexington 1967 April 26 to 30.
Report on agricultural cooperatives in developing countries - defines their role in agricultural development, suggests improvements in cooperative agricultural extension techniques, etc., and outlines research methodology, used. Illustrations, references and statistical tables.
Comparison of types of rural cooperatives and of their role in agricultural production within various forms of economy, including in developing countries and in socialist countries of collective economy - covers aspects of land ownership, the pooling of agricultural machinery, collective farm management, the functions of credit cooperatives, agrarian reform, etc., and includes case studies of cooperative forms of agriculture in various countries. Bibliography pp. 213 to 225.