Agricultural Cooperatives and Farm Sustainability – A Literature Review

Candemir, Ahmet; Duvaleix-Tréguer, Sabine; Latruffe, Laure

doi:10.1111/joes.12417

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“…Construction agricultural management organizations can adjust the input ratio of agricultural production factors and reduce undesired outputs, such as carbon emissions and non-point source pollution, through the standardization of production [20] . Active foster agricultural business entities represented such as family farms and farmer cooperatives [21] can effectively drive green, organic, technological. Other elements in agricultural development [22] promote the development of rural industries and increase farmers' income.…”

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Analysis on the Spatial and Temporal Differences of AEE and Its Potential Improvement in China Based on Strong Disposability

SHI

2022

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Agricultural eco-efficiency (AEE) emphasizes the unification of agriculture production efficiency and environmental benefits. It is an important indicator to measure agriculture's high-quality and sustainable development. Therefore, improving agricultural ecological efficiency is the key to achieving high-quality and sustainable agricultural development. The work uses the EBM-Super-ML method with strong disposability of undesired output to calculate the AEE and further in-depth the spatial-temporal differences driving factors and promotion potential of AEE. The result shows that the overall average value of China's AEE is increasing and has substantial regional heterogeneity. From the analysis of the improvement potential of agricultural ecological efficiency, the mean value of output inefficiency is 0.05, and input inefficiency is 0.07. Among the undesired output, the emission reduction ratio of the agricultural film can reach up to 40%. Among the input elements, the potential for intensive use of labor input is the largest, the average value in the eastern region is relatively high. The input intensity coefficient of agricultural machinery is negative, so the utilization rate of machinery and equipment should be increased. Based on this, the paper put forward some policy recommendations to improve agriculture's high-quality, sustainable development and the AEE.

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Section: Policy Recommendationsmentioning

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Analysis on the Spatial and Temporal Differences of AEE and Its Potential Improvement in China Based on Strong Disposability

SHI

2022

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“…Working together makes farmers improve on their profits by getting into bigger markets, lowering costs and acquiring a higher negotiating power (Candemir, Duvaleix & Latruffe, 2021). Additionally, they can share tools, obtain financial services (like loans), save time on marketing and gain access to training that helps them enhance the quantity and quality of their goods.…”

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Impact of Agricultural Cooperatives on Farmers Output in Denmark

2022

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A farmer cooperative can serve one or more functions including but not limited to providing loans to farmers, supplying information pertinent to agricultural production, selling inputs necessary to agricultural production, bargaining on behalf of its members, providing transportation services, and marketing the farm products. The agricultural cooperatives are regarded as critical to the farmers in the enhancement of their production. Thus, the study sought to look at the impact of agricultural cooperatives on farmers' output in Denmark. The study was literature-based and the concussions of the study was based on the findings from the previous studies. Based on the findings of the study, it was noted that agricultural cooperatives play a critical role in enhancing the output of the farmers. Agricultural cooperatives usually pool together inputs to maximize production and further promote capacity building of the farmers. It was noted that working together makes farmers improve their profits by getting into bigger markets, lowering costs and acquiring a higher negotiating power. Farmers are free to join and leave the cooperative, and there is no governmental intervention in managing the organization in Denmark. Farming and customer cooperatives have been widely known in Denmark. The study noted that small and medium-sized cooperatives, financial cooperatives, workers' cooperatives, and cooperatives for seniors have been rampant in Denmark. The study concluded that cooperatives play an important function in the agricultural sector of several nations. Agricultural cooperatives assist farmers to fix a collective action problem. With co-operatives, farmers may bring in traders and institutional buyers, and improve their bargaining power. The study recommended that agricultural cooperatives are required to provide more training on agricultural production and motivate members to actively join those training. The cooperatives need to strengthen and broaden markets to get better prices for their members.

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“…Cooperative societies are also seen useful in overcoming issues such as sharing assets, data, services (Ahmed & Mesfin, 2017;Holloway, Nicholson, Delgado, Staal, & Ehui, 2000;Wossen et al, 2017) equality and caring for others are among the essential values on which authentic cooperatives and sometimes assisting farmers financially to buy equipment and seedlings for group use (Adeogun, Olawoye, & Akinbile, 2010) for high-value products. And those social such as; improving wellbeing of smallholder farmers are based (Candemir, Duvaleix, & Latruffe, 2021;Nippierd, 2012;Twumasi et al, 2021). Another determining factor of successful cooperation is the trust among farmers (Baranyai, Elam, Muriqi, & Papp-Váry, 2018;Muriqi et al, 2019;Oláh et al, 2019;Oláh, Hidayat, Gavurová, Khan, & Popp, 2021;Vasa, Baranyai, Kovacs, & Szabo, 2014).…”

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Comparative analysis of cooperative & non-cooperative farmers in Kosovo

Muriqi¹,

Baranyai²,

Fekete-Farkas³

2021

Economics &Amp; Sociology

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As reported by the GDP per capita Kosovo is one of the poorest countries in Europe. Relying on the importance and dependence of Kosovo`s economy, it is evident that the development of agriculture sector is among the prime concern of the country`s strategy and international support programs. Several international studies assess the potential of agricultural cooperatives in transforming traditional agricultural farms to modern market-oriented business units, accelerating growth and addressing rural poverty. This research aims to analyze the relationship between socio-demographic, agricultural, and economic factors pertaining to cooperative and noncooperative farmers in Kosovo and also shows their motivation and expectation related to agricultural practice and behavior. Primary data was collected in 2018 form 165 farmers through semi-structured questionnaires. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Chi square and T-test. The results indicated that there was a significant difference (p<0.01) between cooperative and non-cooperative farmers in various factors. Results indicated that the cooperative farmers have agricultural education, more family members are engaged in agricultural activity, have more access to seasonal employees, sharing machinery, higher readiness to invest in machinery with other farmers, and a high level of trust, they mostly operate in vegetable production and have higher income. Furthermore, the results showed differences in sales chain between two groups of farmers. The results contribute to governmental and non-governmental agencies to encourage farmers to establish/join viable cooperatives.

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Agricultural Cooperatives and Farm Sustainability – A Literature Review

Cited by 141 publications

References 104 publications

Analysis on the Spatial and Temporal Differences of AEE and Its Potential Improvement in China Based on Strong Disposability

Analysis on the Spatial and Temporal Differences of AEE and Its Potential Improvement in China Based on Strong Disposability

Impact of Agricultural Cooperatives on Farmers Output in Denmark

Comparative analysis of cooperative & non-cooperative farmers in Kosovo

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