Alternative food networks (AFNs) have emerged in response to the conventional industrial system, which distances and detaches production from consumption. Food cooperatives are representative of AFNs where relationships between producers consumers reconfigured. This study examines household cooperative membership changes purchase behavior using panel data gathered by Rural Development Administr...

S mall employers have particular disadvantages as purchasers of health insurance.They often are not well informed about the insurance options available to them because, unlike large employers, they do not have specialized staff to manage their employee benefit programs. Small business owners, who usually make decisions about insurance for their firms, typically have little time or expertise to ...

The purpose of this research was analyzing knowledge of rural cooperatives managers in Khouzestan province toward electronic commerce, Iran. The research method was correlative descriptive. The population of this study included rural cooperatives managers in Khuzestan province. The total number of members was 101 people. Due to the limited population, census method was used. Questionnaire relia...

Agro-food quality certification has been gaining greater importance, because it contributes to both agricultural sustainability and food quality. However, small-scale farmers in developing countries have difficulties obtaining the economic benefits acquired from are unclear. This paper investigates effects of agro-food on farm performance which is indicated by profit, yield price. The impacts o...

The plan for the NHS in Scotland mapped out in the white paper Designed to Care shares common values and goals with the plans for England and Wales. The organisational structures proposed to underpin Scotland’s strategy for the health service (box) are, however, substantively different from those proposed for England and Wales. Primary care trusts are new statutory organisations scheduled to go...

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this study was conducted to seek the opinion of walnut producers on barriers affecting the success of producers to found production cooperatives regarding horticultural products in tuyserkan township, iran. a sample of 234 walnut producers were randomly selected through multistage cluster sampling technique. descriptive- correlation research method was used in this study which has been implemen...

Based on Buyback agreement of Stackelberg Game, this article analyzed the impact of sharing buyback cost for optimal production and different choices of supermarkets and farmer professional cooperatives in distribution model and direct model for agricultural-super docking supply chain in china. At the same time, this article designed a buyback agreement model and explores the nature of buyback ...

Worker Cooperatives and Democratic Governance A worker co-operative is a firm that is owned and managed by those who work in it. This paper provides a selective review of research in economics on worker cooperatives. It concentrates on the volatility of earnings and employment in the co-ops compared with conventional capitalist firms; on the long-term viability of co-ops; on the relative produc...