Lock-ins to transition pathways anchored in contextualized cooperative dynamics: Insights from the historical trajectories of the Walloon dairy cooperatives

Herde, Véronique De; Segers, Yves; Maréchal, Kevin; Baret, Philippe

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2022.04.003

Cited by 6 publications

(5 citation statements)

References 76 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…A number of authors (Stryjan, 1993;De Herde et al, 2019) highlight that, with a certain level of re-framing and openness to member innovation (Stryjan, 1993;Byrne et al, 2023), transition is possible within the agricultural co-operative system. Both de Herde et al (2019Herde et al ( , 2022 and Stryan (1993) present cases of co-operatives with spin-off co-operatives run by their farmer members which are linked to the main co-operatives through logistics or some other support mechanism. Stryjan (1993) argues that this involves a reframing from the 135 International Food and Agribusiness Management Review Co-operative agri-advisory services which enable on-farm experimentation and collaborations may create the necessary space within the co-operative for experimentation in new business and governance models, whereby the co-operative is actively shaping farm development towards sustainable agriculture, and the emergent activity from the on-farm experimentation is, in turn, shaping the co-operative.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Leveraging the potential of co-operative agri-advisory services in the transition to sustainable and landscape-based agriculture

Byrne,

McCarthy,

Ryan-Doyle

2024

Int. Food Agribus. Manag. Rev.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Agricultural Advisory Services (AAS) have always had a central role to play at each juncture in agricultural development and innovation. A transition to sustainable agriculture requires an agri-advisory response which draws on the agency and knowledge of the farmer(s), is more tailored to a particular local context and encourages the sharing of knowledge and experimentation across farms in a landscape. Co-operatives, as collaborative, farmer-owned and embedded entities, would seem to be well placed to play a greater role in this evolving agri-advisory space. However, there would seem to be little recognition of the current or potential role of co-operatives in agri-advice either in academic literature or policy discourse. This paper explores the current agri-advisory offering of Irish dairy co-operatives and their potential to offer an enhanced collaborative and landscape-based offering. It concludes that many of the elements are in place for such an approach but there is a greater need to leverage this potential, appreciate the benefits and enable a more farmer-centred and tailored agri-advisory orientation in co-operatives.

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Leveraging the potential of co-operative agri-advisory services in the transition to sustainable and landscape-based agriculture

Byrne,

McCarthy,

Ryan-Doyle

2024

Int. Food Agribus. Manag. Rev.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Nesse contexto, a forma como as cooperativas agrícolas geram e impulsionam capital social tem atraído a atenção dos pesquisadores. (FORGÁCS, 2006;LATTUADA et al, 2011;OLLILA;OLLILA;HESS, 2014;KASABOV, 2016;AKAHOSHI;BINOTTO, 2016;FENG;FRIIS;NILSSON, 2015;AJATES, 2021;VÉRONIQUE DE HERDE et al, 2022;LIU et al, 2022;ZAIATS;KRAIEVSKA;DIAKONENKO, 2022). Alguns desses estudos abordaram sobre questões de participação, comprometimento e confiança dos membros em cooperativas agrícolas (FORGÁCS, 2006;AKAHOSHI;BINOTTO, 2016;VÉRONIQUE DE HERDE et al, 2022).…”

Section: )unclassified

“…Nesse contexto, as pesquisas pertencentes ao agrupamento de "TCS em cooperativas agrícolas" caracterizam-se por serem trabalhos recentes desenvolvidos em sua maioria nos últimos sete anos, com destaque para os artigos mais atuais que foram realizados nos dois últimos anos, como Dolatabad, Ebrahimi e Amini ( 2022 Os trabalhos relacionados a essa temática demonstram que para compreender a complexidade da governança cooperativa (organização estrutural da tomada de decisão coletiva) e a dinâmica de interação entre a cooperativa e seus cooperados, a teoria do capital social é de suma importância (VÉRONIQUE DE HERDE et al, 2022). Essa interação está baseada na confiança entre os membros dentro e fora da organização, em termos de confiança interna quanto maior o nível de confiança dos agricultores, mais propício é para estabelecer mecanismos de compartilhamento de informações e consenso entre os membros (LIU et al, 2022).…”

Section: Akahoshi E Binotto (2016) Estudaram a Cooperativa Agrícola S...unclassified

“…Os resultados de Zaiats, Kraievska e Diakonenko (2022) demonstram que a baixa confiança nas instituições sociais, a individualização de estratégias comportamentais, o crescimento de grupos economicamente inativos e socialmente vulneráveis, a formação de redes de relacionamentos discriminatórios e a disseminação de normas de comportamento social destrutivo, são fatores que causam restrições ao desenvolvimento do acúmulo de capital social em comunidades rurais. Nesse contexto, Véronique de Herde et al (2022) ressalta que a TCS é abrangente e envolve a combinação complexa de características de conexão interna e externa da cooperativa, abrangendo uma dimensão estrutural, uma dimensão cognitiva e uma dimensão relacional (VÉRONIQUE DE HERDE et al, 2022).…”

Section: Akahoshi E Binotto (2016) Estudaram a Cooperativa Agrícola S...unclassified

See 1 more Smart Citation

Capital social e cooperativas agrícolas: um estudo sobre a produção científica nos últimos 20 anos

De Moraes,

Martins,

Rodrigues

et al. 2024

OLEL

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

As cooperativas agrícolas são organizações sociais com grande potencial de desenvolver capital social e a forma como influenciam seu desenvolvimento tem atraído a atenção dos pesquisadores. Embora o capital social seja um ativo fundamental das cooperativas, sua construção é um empreendimento difícil e de longo prazo. Por essa razão, entender o estado da arte, como a pesquisa tem caminhado, quais são suas contribuições teóricas e práticas, limitações e sugestões para estudos futuros, são motivos que sustentam esta pesquisa. Para investigar quais são as principais características da literatura acerca dessa temática, os dados foram obtidos por meio de uma Revisão Sistemática da Literatura, utilizando-se os binômios Social Capital and Agricultural Cooperatives na base de dados Web of Science e Scopus. As principais características da literatura nacional e internacional que abordam a teoria do capital social em cooperativas agrícolas, apontam para um recente interesse dos pesquisadores nos últimos cinco anos. Os estudos desenvolvidos possuem caráter interdisciplinar e foram publicados em diversas revistas científicas de alto fator de impacto. O fortalecimento dos agricultores, das cooperativas agrícolas e da comunidade rural como um todo, depende dos esforços dos pesquisadores em contribuir cada vez mais para entender os desdobramentos das relações sociais que envolvem este importante setor produtivo, que pode inclusive, contribuir fortemente para alcançar os objetivos do desenvolvimento sustentável. Assim, há a necessidade de estudos que aprofundem os indicadores de capital social, isto é, que explorem as dimensões de suas diferentes tipologias: estrutural, cognitiva e relacional.

show abstract

“…Second, vicious circles may cause instability in a system: for example, greenhouse gas emissions  (+)  temperatures  (+)  use of air conditioning  (+)  greenhouse gas emissions constitute a pattern that provokes and accelerates disequilibrium in a system (here, please mind that the plus sign does not indicate anything desirable, but simply a direct relationship between two variables!). These vicious circles are often referred to also as 'lock-ins' in a system, because their non-linearity make it difficult to disentangle and address them (Vanloqueren and Baret, 2008;De Herde et al, 2022). Third, virtuous circles may promulgate desirable changes in a system: for example, investment in renewable energies  (+)  renewable energy stocks  (+)  energy savings  (+)  investment in renewable energies.…”

Section: Mapping Systems Of Issues Through Causal Loop Diagramsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Systems Thinking, Mapping and Change in Food and Agriculture

Dentoni

Cucchi

Roglić

et al. 2023

BAE

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Societal actors across scales and geographies increasingly demand visual applications of systems thinking – the process of understanding and changing the reality of a system by considering its whole set of interdependencies – to address complex problems affecting food and agriculture. Yet, despite the wide offer of systems mapping tools, there is still little guidance for managers, policy-makers, civil society and changemakers in food and agriculture on how to choose, combine and use these tools on the basis of a sufficiently deep understanding of socio-ecological systems. Unfortunately, actors seeking to address complex problems with inadequate understandings of systems often have limited influence on the socio-ecological systems they inhabit, and sometimes even generate unintended negative consequences. Hence, we first review, discuss and exemplify seven key features of systems that should be – but rarely have been – incorporated in strategic decisions in the agri-food sector: interdependency, level-multiplicity, dynamism, path dependency, self-organization, non-linearity and complex causality. Second, on the basis of these features, we propose a collective process to systems mapping that grounds on the notion that the configuration of problems (i.e., how multiple issues entangle with each other) and the configuration of actors (i.e., how multiple actors relate to each other and share resources) represent two sides of the same coin. Third, we provide implications for societal actors - including decision-makers, trainers and facilitators - using systems mapping to trigger or accelerate systems change in five purposive ways: targeting multiple goals; generating ripple effects; mitigating unintended consequences; tackling systemic constraints, and collaborating with unconventional partners.

show abstract

Lock-ins to transition pathways anchored in contextualized cooperative dynamics: Insights from the historical trajectories of the Walloon dairy cooperatives

Cited by 6 publications

References 76 publications

Leveraging the potential of co-operative agri-advisory services in the transition to sustainable and landscape-based agriculture

Leveraging the potential of co-operative agri-advisory services in the transition to sustainable and landscape-based agriculture

Capital social e cooperativas agrícolas: um estudo sobre a produção científica nos últimos 20 anos

Systems Thinking, Mapping and Change in Food and Agriculture

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About