Download or read book Farmers Cooperatives and Sustainable Food Systems in Europe written by Raquel Ajates Gonzalez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-13 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farmers' cooperatives are very prevalent in the European Union, where they account for approximately half of agricultural trade and thus are key to articulating rural realities and in shaping the sustainability credentials of European food and farming. This book analyses to what extent farmers' cooperatives are working to benefit their members, are showing concern for their communities and are promoting cooperative economies. It offers a multilevel set of theoretical, disciplinary, methodological, empirical and social perspectives, using the UK and Spain as contrasting examples, and analyses whether agricultural cooperatives contribute to achieving sustainable food systems. The book presents empirical data from diverse and rich case studies, from large, international cooperatives, to small, multi-stakeholder initiatives. This provides an alternative viewpoint to that of economics, which tends to dominate the study of agricultural cooperatives. The author presents a new theoretical framework that provides a novel lens to study farmers’ cooperatives as organisations deeply embedded in power dynamics of the food system and agricultural policy that shape and constraint their potential to adopt cooperative and sustainable practices. The book is a major addition to the study of agricultural cooperatives and their impact in the development of fairer and more sustainable food systems and it is one of the first detailed accounts of multi-stakeholder food and farming cooperatives in Europe. It is a valuable resource for all scholars working on cooperatives, as well as for students studying agricultural and food policy, environmental justice and rural sociology.

Download or read book Agricultural Co operatives in the European Union written by Onno-Frank van Bekkum and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Farmers Cooperatives in Europe written by Caroline Gijselinckx and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English Abstract: Membership rates of agricultural co-operatives vary widely across member states of the European Union. Inspired by various strands of literature (institutionalism, social capital theory, literature on transition countries and the 'software of the mind'), we investigate historical and social determinants of those differences. We find that social capital and the legacy of communism are significantly correlated with the attractiveness of the co-operative sector for farmers, while the Hofstede indicators, measuring deeply rooted cultural values that otherwise are so robust and have correlations with many entrepreneurial and organizational aspects, are not. We describe our analysis and elaborate on the limits and implications of the data used and methodology applied.

Download or read book Reorienting the Cooperative Structure in Selected Eastern European Countries written by and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 1994 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Promoting Farmer Entrepreneurship Through Producer Organizations in Central and Eastern Europe written by John Millns and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 1 May 1 2004, after a 14-year transitional period from central planning to market economics, eight Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries (the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia) became members of the European Union (EU). Bulgaria and Romania are preparing for accession and are expected to join in 2007. Croatia submitted its application for membership in 2002 and Macedonia in 2004. Part One of this paper presents an overall analysis of the situation and development of producer groups and farmer cooperatives across the CEE countries, including the new EU members, the applicant countries and Balkan states alike. Part Two provides a case study of FAO's experiences and lessons learned with technical assistance programmes and projects in the subregion. The example presents a number of practical suggestions as to how development organisations, governments, donors and advisers might be best able to facilitate the formulation and implementation of policies and strategies that promote the further development of more autonomous and financially sustainable producers' organisations and cooperatives in CEE countries.

Download or read book Reorienting the Cooperative Structure in Selected Eastern European Countries written by János Juhász and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 1994 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reorienting the Cooperative Structure in Selected Eastern European Countries written by T. Hunek and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 1994 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Agricultural Cooperation in Western Europe written by John Howard Heckman and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reorienting the Cooperative Structure in Selected Eastern European Countries written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 1994 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Agricultural Cooperation and Rural Credit in Europe written by American Commission to Investigate and Study Agricultural Credit and Cooperation and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Collectivization of Agriculture in Eastern Europe written by Irwin T. Sanders and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collectivization of agriculture is an essential feature of the Communist program for the satellite countries of Eastern Europe. It is a means of extending state control of agriculture as well as the basis for developing large-scale industrial and military power. Irwin T. Sanders has edited this excellent group of papers by specialists on Eastern Europe and American rural social scientists, which collectively serve as an analysis of efforts to regiment the East European peasant. To those for whom the terms "collective farm" and "collectivization" have little meaning, this book will provide an actual picture of Communist effort to organize millions of peasants into a standard pattern of production and control. Such regimentation, these writers show, has led to less efficient agriculture from the standpoint of total production although it facilitates the delivery of produce to state economic enterprises.

Download or read book Co operative Marketing in European Agriculture written by G. R. Foxall and published by Gower Publishing Company, Limited. This book was released on 1982 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph comprising a comparison of cooperative marketing of agricultural products (agricultural cooperatives) in EC countries - discusses the objectives, institutional framework, membership, financial management, agricultural management, profitability, state intervention, provision of agricultural credit, etc., and comments on economic legislation. Bibliography pp. 96 to 101 and references.

Download or read book Farmer Cooperatives written by and published by . This book was released on 1990-05 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Agricultural Cooperation in Western Europe written by John Howard Heckman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-10 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Agricultural Cooperation in Western Europe: Section C: Norway, Sweden and Denmark Farmer cooperatives and general farm organizations of Western Europe are of increasing interest to the people of the United States. At least two factors are responsible. One is the close working relations developing between the agricultural organizations of Western Europe and those of the United States. The other is the important role which these organiza tions play in the economic life of their countries. Thus, in the United States, there is a continuing and growing need on the part of cooperative and other groups for information on agricultural cooperatives in these Western European countries. This report is an attempt to fill the need for such information. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Co operatives and Farmers Unions in Western Europe written by Flemming Just and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Agrifood Economics and Sustainable Development in Contemporary Society written by Gabriel Popescu and published by Engineering Science Reference. This book was released on 2018-05-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book provides a holistic approach regarding the agrifood and rural economy models and practices, as a specific organizational model in highly competitive economy in its path of adapting to the new challenges. It addresses rural economics, agrifood and environment and its paradigms as it is perceived in modern economies"--

Download or read book Agricultural Cooperation and Rural Credit in Europe written by American Commission for Study of Agriculture in Europe and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: