Agricultural cooperatives have important contributions to farmers. Thanks cooperatives, agricultural products are sold at high prices, while inputs can be purchased low prices. Cooperatives provide their partners with technical support in product processing, grading, standardization, storage and quality. On the other hand, contribute sustainability of activities by providing credit members. The...

Agri-food cooperatives allow farmers to improve their competitiveness and bargaining power. However, the specificities of organizational form, in which owners are decision makers, suppliers, clients, open door conflicts interest. Members’ opportunism comes aftermath this adversely affects cooperatives’ performance. Hence, knowing antecedents these undesirable opportunistic behaviors is an impor...

For rural communities in poor countries to develop, farmers need money invest their farms. However, with limited assets of own and conditions for obtaining loans, the farmers’ operations suffer. This study explores how chances a bank loan are related social capital that they receive from cooperative membership. The data originated 743 Fujian province, China, was analyzed help instrumental varia...

the main purpose followed in this study was to analyze the factors influencing on rural women’s participation in post harvest activities in asara, karaj. the statistical population included all the rural women who inhabit asara and are over 15 years of age (n= 2810). a sample of 110 rural women was selected through stratified random sampling method. a questionnaire was designed to collect data....

Purpose/objective: To describe the managerial challenges agricultural cooperatives face and list leading solutions that can be adopted to overcome such bottlenecks. Design/methodology/approach: A systematic literature review was done, with a research protocol based on “Methodi Ordinatio” (Pagani et al., 2015) select relevant papers. The study covered aspects of management administration agro-in...

This study examines the impact of cooperative membership on rural income generation. It also analyzes factors influencing participation in cooperatives among households Southwest, Nigeria. The was designed to account for selection bias into organizations. Rural household survey data were used and estimates based both Probit model non-parametric propensity score matching method. findings show th...

The women’s cooperative clinic in Kathmandu, Nepal, takes up two small rooms in a building on a hill where the city’s brightly-painted, low-rise apartment buildings end and a rolling, green field of small family plots begins. There is a thin lumpy mattress on an examining bed; a small shelf of antibiotics and a tray with contents that seem to have been transported from the 1930s (a tongue compr...

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...