The purpose of this paper is to analyze the productivity change for agricultural cooperatives in Japan measured by nonparametric outputoriented Malmquist indices of total factor productivity. The productivity change is decomposed into technical change and technical efficiency change. Linear programming techniques are used to calculate the productivity change using a panel data set for 49 agricu...

The history of forest management in the southern United States has been a process of intensification and the pine forests of the Coastal Plain can be regarded as in the early stage of crop domestication. Silviculture research into tree improvement and other aspects of plantation establishment and management has been critical to the domestication process, which began in the early 1950s with the ...

Reframing the Attitude-Behavior Debate: The Case of Meat-Abstinence in Vegetarian Student Cooperatives

BACKGROUND In the Netherlands, primary out-of-hours (OOH) care is provided by large scale General Practitioner (GP) cooperatives. GP cooperatives can be contacted by patients living in the area surrounding the GP cooperative (catchment area) at hours when the patient's own general practice is closed. The frequency of primary OOH care use substantially differs between GP cooperative catchment ar...

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 emergence of agricultural cooperatives is extensively viewed as a necessary institutional arrangement that can help farmers in developing countries overcome the constraints impede them from improving sustainable production and acquiring new marketing opportunities. Therefore, this study examines determinants cooperative membership its impact on fish farm household income, using data collect...

maintenance relationships customers, suppliers and the community are of key factors, maintenance work positive relationshipsin cooperatives.if ownership and structureof cooperativenot entitle of protection and support cooperationculture,will endanger overturning.based on the purpose of this study was analysis of social-cultural factors effecting of production cooperatives' success greenhou...

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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...