Membership in agricultural cooperatives may influence intra-household decisions regarding the division of household labor. However, linkages between cooperative membership and labor allocation remain unexplored. To fill this gap, we examine impact on off-farm work couples engaged farming, using data collected from 595 banana farmers China. The recursive bivariate probit model endogenous-treatme...

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 ...

Is there a tradeoff between inclusive membership and market performance in agricultural cooperatives? Prior studies argue that practices damage cooperative by increasing internal transaction coordination costs. Determining the extent of this is essential to understanding role cooperatives play alleviating poverty. Previous have largely overlooked which organizational activities are existing mem...

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...

ABSTRACT: ?anl?urfa is the province with third-largest agricultural area in Turkey. However, it has only 0.62% of total number cooperatives country. This study aimed to determine perceptionsof farmers regarding and factors affecting them. The main research material was obtained through face-to-face surveys involving selected by a simple random sampling method. volume determined 95% confidence l...

Objective – This paper aimed to understand the elements in cooperative arrangements of agribusiness that facilitate and hinder cooperation.Design/methodology/approach -A descriptive research was carried out based on 50 questionnaires applied farmers´ members cooperatives Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.Results - Results indicated farmers are increasingly expanding their role making productive activit...

Recent issues of ARE Update featured articles evaluating the failures of two California marketing cooperatives, Tri Valley Growers (TVG) and Rice Growers Association (RGA). Along with Blue Anchor’s dissolution and Calavo’s conversion, these combined events have created doubts about the future of cooperatives in California agriculture. Restructured forms of cooperatives are emerging. For example...