Farming cooperatives are organisations fundamentally based on social capital. However, the neoliberal and globalisation turn in food system have led to economisation of agricultural as their main objective criteria for evaluating performance, a retreat from participation wider cooperative movement. Nevertheless, new models cooperation may provide method divert this neoliberalisation trend by pr...

The growing demand for high-value food commodities is opening up opportunities for farmers, especially smallholders to diversify towards commodities that have strong potential for higher returns to land, labour and capital. However, there is an apprehension about the capability of smallholder farmers to participate in the market-oriented production due to their lack of access to markets, capita...

This study aims to analyze the economic benefits, income of rice farming, allocation credit usage and factors affecting chances smoothness rate return at Seandanan Agricultural Cooperatives. The research is conducted Cooperative in Pesawaran Regency, Lampung Province, which determined intentionally. data were taken July 2019. uses a case method. Respondents this are 70 farmers member Cooperativ...

Purpose: Comparative analysis of the decision-making process family farmers who participate and do not in associations cooperatives region Mossoró – RN.
 
 Theoretical framework: Family farming is a productive organization that coexists with capitalist structure production has unique features, since owner also worker, manages means does primarily aim at financial profit, intended to s...

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 ...