The agricultural sector plays a crucial role in the Greek economy. Cooperatives are an integral part of the agricultural sector and the logistics cost impacts the pricing policy of the agricultural products, taking into consideration the value added of all trading partners along the supply chain. Many governments all over Europe pay special attention to this issue trying to make agriculture pro...

Agricultural cooperatives are often viewed as appropriate vehicles to facilitate vertical coordination with, or horizontal integration between, small farmers who would otherwise be excluded from value-adding opportunities and discerning markets. In South Africa, renewed interest in development-oriented cooperatives saw the introduction of a new Cooperatives Act in 2005, along with support measu...

The objective of this work is to analyze the trajectory and role assumed by collective organizations family agriculture, Cooperatives Associations, in construction supply food for institutional market built from National School Feeding Program (PNAE) five most important municipalities state Minas Gerais/Brazil. This approach justified need remedy theoretical gaps insertion cooperatives, which s...

Summary This study investigated the effects of Fadama II cooperatives on poverty status farming households in Oyo State, Nigeria. Specifically, assessed level participation among participants; determined factors influencing cooperatives; examined participants and participants. The was conducted south-western A multi-stage sampling procedure used to select respondents for this study. total numbe...

Cooperatives have been used by the inhabitants in rural areas to gain access to telecommunications. In Bolivia and Finland, for example, consumer cooperatives have been for many years the only mechanism to provide local telecommunication services to the whole country. This paper studies the effects of the Bolivian market’s structure on the development of competition as well as on universal acce...

We characterize how just-selfish workers are incompatible with long-run success in workers’ cooperatives. Emphasizing mutual monitoring as key to cooperatives’ organization design to combat “shirking” we discuss what possible mixes of behavioral types in the membership of a cooperative are compatible with sustainable success. Sustainability depends on social preferences and cooperative norms th...

have shown some success based on protection of habitats such as the Aberdare National Park in Kenya, which has been fenced in completely in a project originally addressed at the needs of rhinos, but which proved also beneficial to elephants (Curr. Biol. (2009), 19, R465). In addition, surprisingly simple measures can be highly effective in avoiding conflict between human and wildlife population...

Conservation of tropical biodiversity in agricultural landscapes has become more important as the area covered by natural ecosystems decreases. We analyzed the effects of local livelihoods, cooperative types, and selected biophysical variables (elevation, slope, percent shade, distance to the forest, coffee density, and coffee age) on tree biodiversity in shade coffee cooperatives of El Salvado...

The development of Renewable Energy (RE) has become a major societal challenge. Even though RE technology is improving fast, the general public has been slow to adopt it. Meanwhile many RE cooperatives have been created; they act as social entrepreneurs in utilizing the social capital of a community to engage the public. Thus, the purpose of this chapter is to consider how they can contribute t...