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Gala, Xoliswa Masingita Hlubelihle. "Challenges facing LED Agricultural cooperative in the Greater Tzaneen Municipality : a case study of Nkomamonta Primary Agricultural Cooperative in Limpopo." Thesis, University of Limpopo (Turfloop Campus), 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/1015.
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Thesis (M.Dev.) --University of Limpopo, 2013Agricultural cooperatives have been widely promoted as a vehicle for smallholder agricultural development in South Africa. As a result, agricultural co-operative registrations in South Africa are increasing. However, research suggests that South African co-operatives have generally not been effective, successful and functional. This study has investigated the challenges facing agricultural cooperatives in the Greater Tzaneen Municipality. It is expected that identification of these elements may enable institutions that offer support to cooperatives make better decisions to improve primary agricultural cooperatives support. Understanding of these elements could inform the efforts for members of cooperatives to achieve their set objectives and thus improve agriculture cooperative, employability, functionality and profitability. A case study of the Nkomamonta Agricultural Primary Cooperative in the Greater Tzaneen Municipalities is used. It is composed of fifteen agricultural cooperative which were purposively selected for the study because they were nearby, they are a pilot agricultural cooperative in the municipality and which are also not functioning as expected. The sample also included the purposively selected members, customers of these agricultural cooperative, workers, Greater Tzaneen Municipality, Local SEDA and LIBSA to explore the differences and provide insight to the knowledge, opinions and challenges that are facing agricultural cooperatives. One-on-one interviews were carried out with co-operative members as well as focus group discussions with customers, members of the cooperatives, workers, the Municipal officials, SEDA and LIBSA. A framework for analysing the challenges agricultural cooperatives with reference to the Nkomamonta cooperative case study was developed using literature of objectives of agricultural cooperatives, challenges which were identified by other researchers and success factors of smallholder agriculture. According to this study, farmers’ activities are hampered by a number of constraints. Production capability of the fifteen primary cooperatives is hampered by resource constraints such as lack of access to land (in one cooperative), machinery and equipment, finances and information relevant to production. Marketing, transportation, poor infrastructure and the elderly age of some cooperative members and issues related to free-rider syndrome were part of the problems that were identified. Low capability of some of the fifteen cooperatives to mobilise resources, use the limited resources available and low capability to manage institutional arrangements rendered the cooperatives ineffective in achieving their set objectives. The study recommends strategies for ensuring that the challenges facing agricultural cooperatives are minimised to better their services in the community. These include strategies for addressing internal and external issues affecting the cooperatives. Direct intervention from government is recommended to improve production through revising land allocation systems which made Kulani Agricultural Cooperative not to have land for growing crops. Jerry Jeff and Nwa Rex went out of action for eight months due to renovation of neighbourhood inorganic farms by the Department of Agriculture. Another strategy would entail improving extension services and follow up and strict monitoring of effective use of government resources provided to farmers. Responding and action taking when disaster has struck the agricultural cooperative by Government is also a plausible strategy. Access and training to relevant technologies to improve the processing and packaging capabilities of cooperatives should improve. Marketing and management activities should be supported through provision of improved infrastructure and relevant training. Farmers themselves should consider assisting one another especially regarding land issues as it was discovered that 67 hectares lay unutilised while the farmer next door needed land. Farmers should also engage in value added activities, and improve marketing programs and cost-effective distribution mechanisms.
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Chaddad, Fabio R. "Financial constraints in U.S. agricultural cooperatives : theory and panel data econometric evidence /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3036812.
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Onofre, Gisele Ramos. "Capital e COAMO - Agroindustrial Cooperativa: a formação de um território." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8136/tde-05102016-170424/.
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No estudo sobre a formação do território do capital e da Coamo, primeiramente seguindo por uma perspectiva Dialética Materialista Histórica, caracterizou-se a cooperativa agroindustrial Coamo com base nas nuances da territorialização e da monopolização do capital e sua influência na sociedade, examinando os elementos que foram os responsáveis no interior das cooperativas pela otimização do capital no campo. Para tanto, foi necessário o debate sobre a participação da cooperativa Coamo como instrumento de expansão do capital nas atividades agrárias, consolidando a estruturação da agricultura capitalista, repercutindo em todo o processo social na região de Campo Mourão e se expandindo por todo o Paraná, atingindo os Estados de Santa Catarina e do Mato Grosso do Sul. No estudo da expansão do território do capital foi considerado, como embasamento teórico, o entendimento de duas tríades principais: terra, trabalho e capital (elementos essenciais no desvendamento das contradições do modo de produção capitalista) e capital, território e cooperativa Coamo (elementos que se conectam aos processos de desenvolvimento nacionais e contribuem para a compreensão das contradições criadas no desenvolvimento do modo de produção capitalista em Campo Mourão). Apresentada a problemática que envolve a formação hegemônica do território, foram consideradas as reflexões e os questionamentos realizados por meio da coleta de informações e de entrevistas sobre a atuação da cooperativa Coamo, que é uma das maiores cooperativa da América Latina. Para fins didáticos, a pesquisa foi dividida em duas macrointerpretações, tendo como limite geográfico a área espacial da região de Campo Mourão. Em linhas gerais, uma das tendências da pesquisa voltou-se às particularidades do Estado do Paraná e da região de Campo Mourão, no que se refere à intensificação do capital no campo, com a participação direta da Coamo, entre outros agentes externos e internos, historicamente ligados aos conflitos e às lutas arroladas pela apropriação e regulamentação das terras. A outra tendência de interpretação não se desvinculou da primeira, complementando a análise sobre a temática, apresentando, de forma global e nacional, as vicissitudes geradas no decorrer da formação do território do capital, com o auxílio e integração das cooperativas agropecuárias. Nesse momento foi enfatizado o papel da atuação da Coamo na formação desse território. A partir da análise das macrointerpretações, foi possível o registro de informações sobre o fenômeno da territorialização e da monopolização capitalista que vem se intensificando em todo o país, atingindo praticamente todos os países do mundo. Para tanto, no estudo da territorialização capitalista, foi elencada uma gama de contribuições de autores, sendo Karl Marx um dos maiores representantes do estudo da produtividade do capital, que, com seu pensamento, embasou esta tese de doutoramento. Enfim, destaca-se que, para o seu fortalecimento, o capital está produzindo novas moldagens nas cooperativas, que passam a ser mais uma das formas de reprodução e de acumulação do capital, firmando seu desenvolvimento também em bases cooperativistas, ou seja, denominadas de cooperativas capitalistas.In the study on the formation of Coamo´s territory of the capital, under a Historical Materialist Dialectic perspective, the agribusiness cooperative was characterized based on nuances of territorialization and monopolization of the capital and its influence on society, examining the elements that were responsible within the cooperatives for the optimization of the capital in the field. To achieve this aim, we needed the debate on the participation of Coamo as an instrument of penetration of the capital in agricultural activities, consolidating the structure of capitalist agriculture, affecting the entire social process not only in the region of Campo Mourão, but also reaching the states of Santa Catarina and Mato Grosso do Sul. In the study of the expansion of the territory of the capital, it was considered, as the theoretical basis, the understanding of two major triads: land, labor and capital that are essential elements in revealing the contradictions of the capitalist mode of production - and the capital, land and Coamo, which are elements that connect themselves to the national processes and contribute to the understanding of the contradictions created in the development of the capitalist mode of production. Stated the problem that involves the formation of hegemonic territory, it was taken into consideration the discussions and issues got by data collecting and interviews about the performance of cooperative Coamo, which is one of the largest cooperative in Latin America. For didactic purposes, the research was divided into two macro-interpretations, considering the spatial area of the region of Campo Mourão as the geographic limits. In general, a research line was directed to the particularities of the State of Paraná and the region of Campo Mourão, in relation to capital deepening in the field, with the direct participation of Coamo, among other internal and external agents, historically linked to the conflicts and struggles enrolled for the appropriation of land and regulations. The other trend of interpretation is not apart from the first, complementing the analysis about the subject by presenting global and national vicissitudes generated during the formation of the territory\'s capital, with the assistance and integration of agricultural cooperatives. At this point, it was emphasized Coamo ´s role played in the formation of this territory. From the analysis of macro-interpretations, it was possible to record information about the phenomenon of territorial and capitalist monopoly which is intensifying across the country, affecting practically all countries of the world. To this end, the study of capitalist territorial, was cast a range of contributions from authors and Karl Marx one of the greatest representatives of the study of capital productivity, which based the thought of his doctoral thesis. Finally, we point out that for its strengthening, capital is producing new moldings in cooperatives that become more and more a way of reproduction and accumulation of capital, firming its development also in cooperative databases, that is cooperatives called capitalists.
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Plunkett, Bradley. "The portfolio problem in agricultural cooperatives an integrated framework /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4112.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2005.The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file viewed on (May 15, 2007) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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Liebenberg, Isabel Elsje. "Determining economic value added for agricultural co-operatives in South Africa." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2004. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-01182005-101059.
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Tsholoba, Nokulunga. "Sustainability of agricultural cooperatives in Emalahleni Local Municipality." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/4133.
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Long term growth and sustainability of cooperatives has become the focus of many countries worldwide. Cooperatives have been seen as the platform for uplifting disadvantaged communities while improving standards of the poor in countries such as Canada, Kenya, Ghana and Nigeria (Department of Trade and Industry, 2012). In South Africa, cooperatives are seen as playing a role in poverty eradication, equal distribution of wealth, employment creation, food security and as a contributor to the economic activity. The South African government have implemented policies aimed at improving the performance and sustainability of agriculture cooperatives in South Africa. Despite all the efforts cooperatives still face sustainability challenges. Therefore the purpose of this research was to investigate the sustainability challenges that prevent the permanent establishment of cooperatives and to understand the dynamics and nature of failure associated with agricultural cooperatives .A case study methodology was used to examine a single case in-depth and to understand the factors affecting agricultural cooperatives. The main challenges identified in the study include; poor communication, limited access to markets, access to finance, a lack of good governance and a lack of managerial skills. The study recommended capacity building as the first point of reference in order to deal with challenges such as communication, access to markets and a lack of managerial skills. A lack of good governance is regarded as an attitude problem which requires setting ethical standards and rules accompanied by a penalty to the member if they are found to be breaking the rules. Access to finances is regarded as a skills and competence phenomenon which requires people to develop planning and financial literacy skills, which will enable them to formulate business plans and use them as a control tool for managing the cooperative. The business plan is also regarded as an asset or security document which acts as a proof that the cooperative is well planned, organised and sustainable. The research concludes with suggesting areas for future study to investigate the impact of informal education practices on skills development in the success of cooperatives.
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Ricken, José Roberto. "O modelo de integração econômico e social nas cooperativas agropecuárias do Paraná." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/4165.
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The purpose of this study was to analyze the model of integration of agricultural cooperatives in the State of Paraná. There were studied the characteristics, the factors that hinder and the actions that facilitate the integration of cooperatives and their members and of cooperatives between themselves. Cooperatives have distinct characteristics of other market players, in their purposes, form of management, capital formation and identification with the community where they work. The development of rural cooperatives in Paraná is the result of the Integrated Projects of Cooperatives (PICs), implemented as from 1972. The model provided cooperatives at local level, each with its field of action, with the purpose of providing technical assistance, credit and logistical support to groups of associated producers, and central cooperatives by region, for industrialization and commercialization of the production. The results provided by the integrated projects are evident, for almost 60% of the current agricultural production of the State outcomes through cooperatives. However, over time, due to the uneven growth of cooperatives, there appeared disputes about the area of action between cooperatives and conflicts of interests with regard to the central cooperatives, which endangered the idealized model of integration. Field research, conducted in this study concludes that 75% of the people who composes the internal public of’ the cooperatives - members, board members and employees, agree that there is competition between cooperatives in Paraná. This is a controversial but relevant topic for the development of the cooperatives, which compete with large national and international conglomerates. To overcome the dilemma of integration is an important challenge to cooperative organizations. This dissertation uses the methodology of content analysis, described by Vergara (2007, p. 15) to extract from the literature and the field research the desired results. Based on the Theory of Social Systems Delimitation, designed by Guerreiro Ramos (1981), it is concluded that the agricultural cooperatives of the State of Paraná are organizations of economic interests, which show isonomic characteristics of management. The main factors that hinder the integration of cooperatives were assigned to inner attitudes of cooperative members and managers, such as individualism, lack of knowledge about cooperatives and lack of interest in participating in the cooperative. Among the actions that could contribute to the integration was cited the need to form a new model of integration, supported by education, communication programs and capitalization in compatible volumes with the demands of cooperative projects, both for the cooperative members and for integrated projects between cooperatives.
Analisar o modelo de integração das cooperativas de produtores agropecuários no estado do Paraná foi o propósito deste estudo. Foram estudadas as características, os fatores que dificultam e as ações que facilitam a integração entre cooperados e suas cooperativas e destas entre si. As cooperativas têm características distintas dos outros atores do mercado, nos seus objetivos, na forma de gestão, na formação do capital e na sua identificação com a comunidade onde atuam. O desenvolvimento das cooperativas agropecuárias no Paraná é resultante dos Projetos Integrados de Cooperativismo (PICs), implementados a partir de 1972. O modelo previa cooperativas singulares, cada qual com sua área de ação, com o objetivo de proporcionar assistência técnica, creditícia e apoio logístico aos produtores associados, e centrais cooperativas, por região, para industrialização e comercialização da produção. Os resultados proporcionados pelos projetos integrados são evidentes, pois, quase 60% da produção agropecuária atual provém das cooperativas em todo o estado. Porém, ao longo do tempo, em razão do crescimento desigual das cooperativas, surgiram disputas por área de ação entre cooperativas e conflitos de interesses em relação às centrais que comprometeram o modelo de integração idealizado. Pesquisa de campo realizada para este estudo, mostra que 75% das pessoas que compõem o público interno das cooperativas – cooperados, dirigentes e funcionários, concordam que há concorrência entre cooperativas no Paraná. Trata-se de tema polêmico porém relevante para o desenvolvimento do cooperativismo paranaense, que concorre com grandes conglomerados econômicos nacionais e internacionais. A superação do dilema da integração constitui importante desafio às organizações cooperativas. Esta dissertação utiliza metodologia de análise de conteúdo, descrita por VERGARA (2007, p. 15) para extrair da bibliografia e da pesquisa de campo os resultados almejados. Com base na Teoria da Delimitação dos Sistemas Sociais, concebida por Guerreiro Ramos (1981), conclui-se que as cooperativas agropecuárias paranaenses são organizações de interesse econômico que apresentam características isonômicas de gestão. A maioria dos fatores que dificultam a integração nas cooperativas é originada de atitudes internas de cooperados e dirigentes, tais como: individualismo, falta de conhecimento sobre as cooperativas e falta de interesse em participar da cooperativa. Entre as ações que poderiam contribuir para a integração foi citada a necessidade de se constituir novo modelo de integração, apoiado por programas de educação, comunicação e capitalização em volumes compatíveis com as demandas dos projetos das cooperativas, tanto aos cooperados quanto para projetos integrados entre cooperativas.
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Akman, Geraldine. "Both sides now : gender relations in credit and agriculture cooperatives in rural Haiti." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=39563.
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This dissertation applies the theoretical perspective of gender relations and develops methods to understand and analyze the movement of women from the center of social systems to its margins when these systems are undergoing rapid socio-economic and political change. This research responded to the pressing need for the application of newer, more appropriate theoretical and methodological perspectives to examine shifting power relations between women and men in areas undergoing transformation. In the case study, I investigate the locus of power in a system of cooperatives in the Departement du Nord, Haiti and discover how and why female members are being relegated to the periphery of this development programme. I find that a system of gender-based social power is causing unequal opportunities and oppressive power relations for female members in the cooperatives. I analyze how and why this system of social power causes conflict when the interests of female and male members differ in the cooperatives and I explore strategies for change. This dissertation also contributes to a greater understanding of the power dynamics which exist when one group holds different preferences and practices to the dominant group whose framework is the one considered acceptable in the society.
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Green, John J. "Community-based cooperatives and networks : participatory social movement assessment of four organizations /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3060099.
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Ngwamba, Mthabiseng Pertunia. "Assessing the operations of agricultural cooperatives at Nkomazi Municipality, Mpumalanga Province." Thesis, University of Zululand, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10530/1526.
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A thesis submitted to the Faculty Arts in fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Masters in Development Studies in the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies at the University of Zululand, South Africa, 2017.The study hopes to bring about the enlightenment to the operations of agricultural cooperatives at Nkomazi municipality namely ward 7, 25, 29 and 30. The study therefore assess the operations of agricultural cooperatives while identifying the operational processes of cooperatives; examining the management techniques of cooperatives; determining membership participation and commitment to cooperatives and identifying the measures adopted in the monitoring and evaluation of agricultural cooperatives. The research method that was used to gather data was qualitative research approach, the design adopted descriptive research design and the research method used is multiple case study method. The research data collection tools comprises of structured and unstructured interviews, policy document analysis, structured observations and this was done using a questionnaires an instrument for a sample size of 40 agricultural cooperatives. A non-probability sampling was used and the type on non-probability that is both purposive and convenience sampling to sample the respondents. The results showed that 75% of the respondents are employed by the agricultural cooperatives. Significantly, 90% agricultural cooperatives have members depends on agricultural cooperatives for income. It is noted that 10% of the agricultural cooperatives were established during the year 1993 and before significantly 8% (3) was operational in that particular year. Astonishingly, the results show statistically a constant growth by 45% of established and operational agricultural cooperatives in the year 2015 to 2016. The results shows that the operations of the agricultural cooperatives depended massively on the main activities associated and other several operational events such as funds, human resources and raw material.The outcome of the study was evident that even though some cooperative operate without proper management and monitoring and evaluations techniques, the cooperatives still contribute massively the local food nets and to the local economy within the study area.
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Burjorjee, Peter, Benedikt Roth, and Yoeri Nelis. "Land cooperatives as a model for sustainable agriculture: A case study in Germany." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för strategisk hållbar utveckling, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-14440.
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Savi, Aline Roman. "As relações constituídas historicamente entre produtores familiares e cooperativas agropecuárias no RGS : a Cooperativa Regional Sananduva de Carnes e Derivados Ltda." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/17260.
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A presença e a importância das cooperativas no Rio Grande do Sul - especialmente as ligadas ao setor produtivo - é consenso entre os estudiosos do tema. Estas organizações foram constituídas por distintos agentes, com, igualmente, objetivos distintos, em múltiplos tempos e locais, apresentando estruturas e funcionamentos diversos. A fim de compreender o rico e pouco estudado universo dos elaboradores e participantes da constituição dessas organizações - no caso, os produtores familiares ligados à Cooperativa de Carnes do município de Sananduva - bem como das formas com que seus associados se relacionam com elas, contemplando, igualmente as mudanças operadas nas próprias Organizações, este trabalho elabora, primeiramente, tipos ideais dos produtores associados. Em segundo momento, examina as transformações operadas na própria Cooperativa, visando estabelecer, a partir destas duas análises, quais são as relações constituídas entre a Organização e seus associados. Conjeturaram-se, como hipóteses fundamentais, que, à medida que os produtores de suínos associados avançam no processo histórico, eles transformam-se, diversificando-se quanto a seu tipo. A cooperativa estudada, por sua vez, consolida um modelo hegemônico, o empresarial, mas mantém laços de dominação pautados na tradição. Verificou-se, comprovando-se as hipóteses apontadas, a presença de dois tipos de produtores: o tradicional e o empresarial, que sustentam uma dominação em relação à Cooperativa (progressivamente burocratizada e empresarial) baseada em uma relação firmada em valores.The presence and importance of cooperatives within Rio Grande do Sul - especially those that are linked to the productive sector - is consensus among specialists of the topic. These organizations were constituted by different agents, with, likewise, different goals, in multiple times and localities, showing diverse structures and functionings. With the purpose to understand the rich and little-studied universe of people who elaborate and participate in the constitution of those organizations - in this case, the family producers involved to the "Cooperativa Sananduva de Carnes e Derivados Ltda." [a cooperative of meat production] within Sananduva Municipality - as well as the forms by which associates report to them, having in mind, as well, the changes that has been operated in the Organizations, this work elaborates, firstly, ideal types of the associated producers. At a second time, it examines the transformations that were operated inside the Cooperative, attempting to establish, from these two analyses, what are the relationships that were constituted between the Organization and their associates. The fundamental hypotheses that have been conjuctured is that, as long as the associates of swine production go forward in the historic process, they transform themselves, diversifying according to their type. The surveyed cooperative consolidates a hegemonic model, or entrepreneurial, however it keeps links of domination patterned by tradition. It was verified, confirming the mentioned hypotheses, the presence of two types of producers: the traditional and the entrepreneurial in relation to the Cooperative (progressively bureaucratized and entrepreneurial) based on a relation that has been consolidated in values.
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Tauatsoala, Mahlola Michael. "The economic impact of agricultural co-operatives on women in the rural areas of Polokwane Municipality." Thesis, University of Limpopo (Turfloop Campus), 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/500.
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Thesis (M.Dev.) --University of Limpopo, 2011The introduction and establishment of co-operatives by the State was for purposes of fighting and alleviating poverty through creating jobs, particularly in the rural areas,which were mostly neglected by the previous apartheid State. In order to deal with these social ills and malady, the new democratic government introduced cooperatives to mitigate these challenges. These good intensions are often countered by lack of commitment by State officials and reluctance from other institutions to assist co-operatives to be catalysts in fighting poverty and unemployment in South Africa, despite their noble intentions. In other developed countries, co-operatives are given serious attention, not only because they are catalysts in poverty alleviation, but because they can make huge economic interventions with regard to economic growth and economic development. The intention of this study was to make an assessment of whether or not agricultural co-operatives have any economic impact on women in the rural areas of Polokwane Municipality, since their inception as entities for local economic development. The study also assesses whether or not the State supports these entities in a variety of forms. For this purpose, four co-operatives have been used as a Case Study,namely, Mashashane Agricultural Co-operative at Ga-Mashashane; Phegelelo Agricultural Co-operative at Ga-Thaba village; Mothiba Agricultural Co-operative at Ga-Mothiba; and Itireleng Agricultural Co-operative at Matamanyane village in Moletjie
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Wearaduwa, Vidana Kankanamge Thilani Kaushalya. "Economic Efficiency of Occupational Health and Safety Investments at Agricultural Cooperatives." Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/28861.
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Industries related to agricultural cooperatives record some of the highest injury rates in the U.S. Therefore, agricultural cooperatives are highly motivated to invest in occupational health and safety (OHS). This thesis examines the economic efficiency of OHS investments at agricultural cooperatives and identifies cooperative characteristics leading to greater economic efficiency of OHS investments. A multiple input-output data envelopment analysis (DEA) is used to estimate technical efficiency. The effects of cooperative characteristics on the efficiency of OHS investments are estimated using ordinary least squares, censored regression, truncated regression, and the Simar and Wilson (2007) bootstrap procedure. Results show that the mean technical efficiency score was 0.833. Furthermore, a cooperative?s annual insurance premia has a significant, negative relationship with technical efficiency. In contrast, the experience levels of a cooperative?s top safety person and top managerial person and a location?s total workers employed have significant, positive relationships with efficiency in all estimated models.North Dakota State University. Department of College of Agriculture, Food Systems and Natural Resources
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Iliopoulos, Constantine. "A study of the property rights constraints in U.S. agricultural cooperatives : theory and evidence /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9924892.
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Cazzuffi, Chiara. "Small scale farmers in the market and the role of processing and marketing cooperatives : a case study of Italian dairy farmers." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2013. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/45117/.
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Agricultural markets are often characterised by imperfect competition between buyers of farm produce. Cooperatives are often regarded as one possible way to enhance welfare for small producers, while others view them as an inefficient historical relic. My thesis investigates empirically the coexistence of cooperative and capitalistic processing and marketing firms in the market for raw milk in three Italian provinces, using a dataset I collected via a survey of dairy farmers. First, I analyse what accounts for variation in market structure within each province and what drives coop membership when choice is available. Geography is found to influence both number and nature of processing firms operating at a given location. Where farms are more isolated and scale of production is smaller, cooperatives have – historically – tended to prevail, and often remain the only buyer today. Where both coops and capitalistic processors are available, parental membership status is more important for the decision of a farmer to join the cooperative, suggesting some degree of inertia. Second, I investigate whether there is any evidence that selling through a cooperative makes a difference for farmers, with respect to both price and non-price characteristics of the relationship. With respect to non-price characteristics, results show that cooperatives draw less complex contracts with members compared to capitalistic processors with their suppliers, are less likely to pay a lower price than agreed, and more likely to offer technical assistance. Members and non-members do not appear to differ in their perceived net benefits from the exchange relationship, but benefits from membership appear to be larger for smaller than larger farmers. As regards whether cooperative membership, per se, has any effect on price paid to farmers, the theoretical literature suggests that asymmetric price competition between two firms with different objective functions, in a spatial market, under different spatial pricing policies, can lead to price differences between the two. This prediction is tested by estimating the effect of coop membership on prices paid using four different nonexperimental evaluation methods. The results show a positive and significant effect of membership, driven by more remote farmers with smaller scale of production, located in areas of cooperative monopsony.
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Thomaz, Fernanda. "O modelo socialista de Cooperativa de Produção Agropecuária (CPA): contradições e avanços - estudo de caso de Copava." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8136/tde-27052011-153834/.
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A presente pesquisa de mestrado teve o objetivo de analisar o modelo socialista de agricultura coletiva proposto pelo Movimento dos Sem-Terras (MST) por meio das cooperativas de produção agropecuárias (CPAs) e suas contradições. A idéia era compreender em que medida a coletivização do trabalho agrícola fortalece a luta pela resistência na terra. Com essa finalidade a pesquisa foi proposta aos cooperados da Copava (Cooperativa de Produção Agropecuária Vó Aparecida), fundada em 20 de novembro de 1993, na agrovila III do assentamento Pirituba, situada no município de Itaberá, sudoeste do Estado de São Paulo. Nas CPAs a terra, o trabalho e a renda são administrados coletivamente pelos próprios cooperados. Apesar de a CPA ser um empreendimento de tipo empresarial, é radicalmente diferente de uma empresa capitalista, pois não há extração de mais-valia. A divisão da renda é feita conforme o número de horas trabalhadas de cada um após serem pagas ou amortizadas as dívidas com a produção e gastos em investimentos para ampliação da estrutura da cooperativa. A Copava foi fundada por 27 famílias, totalizando 46 sócios, e ocupando uma área de 189 alqueires de terra. A corrente teórico-metodológica marxista-leninista é a que fundamenta esse modelo de CPA, sendo que as contradições encontradas decorrem da oposição entre a visão socialista e a visão camponesa de uso da terra. Através da CPA, a Copava tem conseguido garantir ao longo do ano o abastecimento de pão, leite, arroz e feijão para todos os cooperados. Porém, uma contradição fundamental desse modelo é que o aumento da produtividade possibilitado pela CPA, não reflete necessariamente a um aumento da renda em dinheiro para o cooperado, devido aos altos custos de manutenção e ampliação da infra-estrutura da cooperativa, a dificuldade de comercialização dos produtos, e a falta de crédito e financiamento governamental que acaba obrigando a cooperativa a fechar contratos com empresas capitalistas, que se apropriam da renda gerada pelos cooperados.This masters research aimed to analyze the model of socialist agriculture conference proposed by the Movement of Landless Peasants (MST) by means of agricultural production cooperatives (CPAs) and its contradictions. The idea was to understand the extent to which the collectivization of the agricultural work strengthens the fight for land resistance. With this purpose the research was proposed to the Copava cooperative (Cooperative Agricultural Production Vó Aparecida), founded on November 20, 1993, in the settlement Pirituba, agrovila III, located in Itaberá, southwest of São Paulo. CPAs in the land, work and income are managed collectively by the cooperative members themselves. Although the CPA is a venture-type business, is radically different from a venture capitalist, because there is no extraction of surplus value. The division of income is made according to the number of hours worked each after being paid or written off debts with the production and investment spending to expand the cooperative structure. The Copava was founded by 27 families, totaling 46 members, covering an area of 189 acres of land. The current theoretical and methodological Marxist-Leninist ideology that underlies this is the CPA model, and found the contradictions arising from the contrast between the socialist vision and the vision of peasant land use. Through the CPA, Copava has managed to ensure year round supply of bread, milk, rice and beans for all members. However, a fundamental contradiction of this model is that the increased productivity made possible by the CPA, does not necessarily reflect an increase in cash income for the cooperative because of the high costs of maintaining and expanding the infrastructure of the cooperative, the difficulty of marketing products, and lack of credit and government funding that ends up requiring the cooperative to close contracts with capitalist enterprises that take on much of the income generated by the associates.
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Ajates, Gonzalez R. "Agricultural cooperatives : promoting or hindering fairer and more sustainable food systems? : the case of Spain and the UK." Thesis, City, University of London, 2016. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/17685/.
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Agricultural cooperatives (ACs) are major players in the European Union, where they account for 40-60% of agricultural trade and thus are key actors in articulating rural realities and in shaping the sustainability credentials of European food and farming. Cooperatives, regardless of the sector they operate in, are expected to work for the benefit of their members, show concern for their communities (including sustainable development) and promote cooperative economies. This research analyses to what extent this is happening in the case of ACs. Evidence of how unsustainable and unequal farming in Europe is despite such a strong AC presence raises questions on the role and practices of these cooperatives. Despite their grassroots origins, concerns from civil society and a handful of scholars suggest there is an increase in top-down approaches and corporatisation trends in the sector. This research examines ACs in Spain and the UK (in the context of the EU/CAP framework), examining how the sector has evolved in both countries since its beginnings and analysing trends and factors shaping their current development. Using case study methodology, data from document analysis and 41 interviews with AC members, academics, policy makers and industry and civil society representatives are presented. The findings reveal the two countries have very different farming cooperative sectors, but their largest ACs are adapting to the EU policy context and the increasing concentration of power in the food system by following similar growth and corporatisation strategies. A reaction from social movements is however taking place both in Spain and the UK, where new innovative cooperative models are emerging. Thus, ACs can be placed in a continuum of alterity depending on the degree of embeddedness in industrial or more sustainable food practices. ACs can become disjointed and have their least political components co-opted by the dominant food system (as they fit its logistics model, trade requirements and help concentrate produce). Going beyond the economic perspective that dominates the study of ACs, this research also places a focus on emerging innovative multi-stakeholder governance models. The strategies used to protect their alterity as well as the diverse understandings of food sustainability that different types of cooperatives have and how they reproduce these through their practices are analysed. Given the insufficient explanatory potential of existing theories to accommodate a wide range of realities labelled as cooperatives in food and farming, a new theoretical framework was developed based on the findings of this research. The multilevel framework unravels the different dimensions that constitute cooperatives and their degree of alterity and commitment to sustainable food practices and the wider cooperative movement.
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Sick, Deborah 1956. "The golden bean : coffee, cooperatives and small-farmer decision making in Costa Rica." Thesis, McGill University, 1993. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=41768.
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Coffee production in Costa Rica has brought prosperity to many small farmers, but conflicts of interest with the companies which process and market coffee are still a problem. In addition, producers and processors are plagued by the periodic market cycles of agricultural commodities. Various agencies have promoted cooperatives to help small farmers deal with these problems, but they often fail due to poor management and lack of participation.This thesis, a multi-layered study of coffee production, processing, and marketing, examines how household producers manage the constraints and opportunities posed by the international market, the Costa Rican state, and the coffee tree itself. A comparative analysis between cooperative and private coffee processors; between two rural communities; and among households in these communities provides the ethnographic context in which the effectiveness of cooperatives as mediating institutions between producers and the world market is analyzed.
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Silva, Luis Florentino. "Agricultura familiar e associativismo: um estudo de caso no assentamento Margarida Alves, Mirassol d´oeste - MT." Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, 2011. http://www.repositorio.jesuita.org.br/handle/UNISINOS/5013.
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O presente trabalho é o resultado de uma análise de um Estudo de Caso, a partir de um embasamento teórico, em que foram analisadas várias obras referentes ao assunto tratado, e após visitas de reconhecimento in loco na área de estudo, e posteriores conversas informais com diferentes pessoas, definiu-se a modalidade de coleta de dados, em que se optou por entrevistas abertas e semiestruturadas. Essas entrevistas bem como um questionário alternativo com múltiplas escolhas, foram aplicadas a um universo de 10% do total de famílias assentadas. Com essas informações em mãos, e devidamente sintetizadas, foi elaborada a dissertação, tendo o assentamento Margarida Alves em Mirassol D’Oeste como objeto de estudo. Esse assentamento é resultante das mobilizações do MST, e a pesquisa em pauta buscou dar ênfase à importância da agricultura familiar como um instrumento na geração de emprego e renda, bem como a necessidade de essas famílias terem acesso aos requisitos mínimos para produzir e permanecer na terra. E como uma probabilidade para isso, buscou-se verificar qual a viabilidade de contribuição do trabalho a partir de associações e de uma cooperativa. Sendo assim, a pesquisa procurou fazer um levantamento de dados que pudessem analisar o grau de percepção que essas famílias têm desses empreendimentos, bem como a sua importância na produção da agropecuária. Com base na análise dos dados coletados, por meio de entrevistas e do questionário fechado, foi possível fazer um cruzamento das informações obtidas das diferentes pessoas. Assim, foi possível verificar o grau de organização e interação que há no assentamento em relação à viabilidade de se desenvolver a sua produção a partir de associações ou cooperativas, bem como o conhecimento que os assentados têm para organizar tais empreendimentos.
This work is the result of an analysis of a case study from a theoretical basis, which were analyzed in several works related to the subject matter, and after recognition in loco visits in the study area, and subsequent informal conversations with different people, we defined the mode of data collection, which opted to open and semistructured interviews. These interviews as well as an alternative questionnaire with multiple choices were applied to a universe of 10% of families settled. With this information in hand, and appropriately synthesized, was elaborated dissertation, and the settlement Margarida Alves D'Oeste in Mirassol as an object of study. This settlement is the result of the mobilization of the MST, and the research in question sought to emphasize the importance of family farming as an instrument in generating employment and income, as well as the need for these families to have access to the minimum requirements to produce and stay on the ground. And as a chance to do so, we sought to determine how practical contribution from the work of 8 associations and cooperatives. Thus, the study sought to survey data that can analyze the degree of perception that these families have these ventures, as well as its importance in the production of agriculture. Based on analysis of data collected through interviews and questionnaire closed, it was possible to make a crossing of information from different people. Thus it was possible to verify the degree of organization and interaction that is in the settlement regarding the feasibility of developing its production from associations or cooperatives, as well as the knowledge that the settlers have to organize such enterprises.
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Mqaba, Mzuyanda Victor. "The impact of government support on growth, survival and performance of cooperatives in selected areas of Eastern Cape province; South Africa." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/1612.
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This study investigated the impact of government support on growth, survival and performance of agricultural cooperatives in selected areas of Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. The objectives of this empirical study were to examine (1) the impact of government support on growth of cooperatives, (2) assess the impact of government support on the performance of cooperatives, (3) reviewing the impact of government support on survival of cooperatives. A total sample of 157 agricultural cooperatives which consisted of poultry, maize, goat, nursery, sheep and vegetable coops was used. Stratified random sampling technique was used and a self-administered questionnaire used to gather primary data. The primary data of the study was gathered from the cooperatives managers only as they were the targeted respondents. Gathered data went through factor analysis, anova test and correlation analysis for the statistical analysis purposefully to arrive in study findings and conclusion. The findings of the study drawn from the 66% response rate concluded that government support has a statistical significant impact on growth of cooperatives. The study also indicated that government support has a significant impact on the survival of cooperatives. It is also reported that the performance of cooperatives is significantly impacted positively by government support. The findings of the study also indicated that agricultural cooperatives are not satisfied with the present government support.
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Rodrigues, Luis Eduardo Roza. "Organização da indústria: estudos de caso na cadeia produtiva do etanol do Rio Grande do Sul." Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, 2010. http://www.repositorio.jesuita.org.br/handle/UNISINOS/3135.
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A conjuntura mundial demonstra um interesse crescente, sobre os produtos da biomassa que podem ser usados na produção de combustíveis. Este se liga à busca por alternativas que permitam enfrentar a esperada escassez de petróleo e a obtenção de fontes energéticas que diminuam os impactos da atuação humana no meio ambiente. Os combustíveis da biomassa apresentam características positivas em relação à suas emissões de gases, possibilidades de expansão de cultivo e colaboram na retenção de carbono. O Brasil é o maior produtor de cana-de-açúcar do mundo e o segundo maior produtor de etanol, ficando atrás somente dos Estados Unidos. Esse desempenho deve-se ao clima, disponibilidade de terra e ao domínio técnico existente. No Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, a cultura é pouco expressiva, com área reduzida dedicada a ela, e com a produção de etanol local atendendo somente a 2% da demanda, com o restante sendo importado de outros Estados. A realidade agrária local apresenta-se formada, em sua maior parte, por pequenos produtores ligados à agricultura familiar, com propriedades e produção em baixos volumes, contrariamente ao que ocorre no restante do País, onde a organização típica dessa indústria baseia-se em grandes usinas e monocultura de cana-de-açúcar. As cooperativas que atuam, ou buscam atuar nessa indústria no Estado adotam dois modos distintos de atuação diferenciados, com níveis de produção em escalas muito inferiores aos praticados no restante do Brasil. O primeiro obtém sua sustentabilidade da produção e venda do etanol diretamente ao mercado em uma escala de atuação de maior volume e práticas alinhadas aos paradigmas dessa indústria. O segundo viabiliza-se a partir de um mix, composto de etanol para autoconsumo e comercialização, alimentos, prática de culturas diversas a partir de doutrinas agroecológicas e sistêmicas com geração de renda para os cooperados e as comunidades. Este trabalho realizou estudos de caso em quatro cooperativas, Coopercana, Cooperbio, Cooperfumos e Cooperger, que identificaram que este tipo de organização tem efeitos positivos para a obtenção de melhor escala de produção, viabilização de acesso a recursos, melhores custos de transação e obtenção de economias de escopo pelos pequenos produtores. A adoção de métodos como Zeri e outros ligados a práticas agroecológicas é tido como essencial nos projetos de três dessas organizações, mas ainda não existem avaliações que permitem valorar seu impacto no resultado das operações, e se elas conseguem obter os resultados econômicos desejados.
A world conjecture shows an increasing interest about biomass products that can be used in fuel production. This is connected to the search for alternatives that allow us to face the expected oil shortage and the obtaining of energy sources that reduce the impact of human action in the environment. The biomass fuels present positive features regarding its gas emission, possibilities of expanding cultivation and they contribute to carbon retention. Brazil is the greatest sugar-cane-producing country in the world and the second greatest ethanol-producer, following only the United States. This performance is due to the climate, to the land available and to the existing techniques. In the State of Rio Grande do Sul, the culture is not much expressive, with short area dedicated to it, and local ethanol production answering to only 2% of demand, with remaining being imported from other States. The local agrarian reality is mostly formed by small producers connected to family agriculture, with small land and production, being the opposite to what happens in the other regions of the country, when the typical organization of this industry is based on large refinery and monoculture of sugar cane. The cooperatives that act, or try to act in this industry in the state adopt two different ways to action, with levels of production in very inferior scales in relation to those practiced in the other regions of Brazil. The first one obtains its maintenance from the production and purchase of ethanol directly to the market in an action scale of larger volume and practices according to the paradigms of this industry. The second one is feasible from a mixture formed by ethanol to self-consumption and purchasing, food, varied cultures from agriecological and systemic doctrines with income generation to producers and community. This work has carried out case studies in four cooperatives Coopercana, Cooperbio, Cooperfumos and Cooperger that have identified that this type of organization have positive effects to the acquisition of better production scale, making feasible the access to resources, better costs of negotiation and acquisition of purpose economics by small producers. The adoption of methods such Zeri and others connected to agriecological practices is seen as essential in projects of three organizations of those mentioned above but still there are not assessments that can measure the impact of those methods in the result of the operations, and whether they can obtain the expected economical results.
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Snider, Anna. "The role of small farmer cooperatives in the management of voluntary coffee certifications in Costa Rica." Thesis, Montpellier, SupAgro, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016NSAM0006/document.
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La certification volontaire offre aux consommateurs des informations détaillées sur le processus de production et/ou de fabrication des produits. Les organisations paysannes jouent un rôle important dans la gestion de certification et de l'accès des petits agriculteurs aux marchés certifiés. Les organisations de producteurs du Costa Rica ont historiquement joué un rôle important dans la participation des petits producteurs aux filières certifiées et leur motivation à accéder aux marchés certifiés. Les organisations paysannes jouent un rôle important dans la gestion de certification et de l'accès des petits agriculteurs aux marchés certifiés. Pour ces raisons, le Costa Rica offre un environnement intéressant pour étudier la façon dont les organisations de producteurs de café arrivent à gérer la certification de leurs membres.Cette recherche se concentre uniquement sur les coopératives et les consortiums de coopératives puisqu’elles sont importantes dans le processus de certification. Considérant le manque de connaissances sur le rôle des coopératives et de la certification volontaire du café, cette thèse traite les questions suivantes: Quel est le rôle des coopératives dans la gestion des certifications volontaires ? Quels sont les changements induits par la certification, au niveau des coopératives et des exploitations ?, Quels aspects sociaux uniques propres au Costa Rica influencent la gestion et l'efficacité de la certification?Les administrateurs de vingt des vingt-deux coopératives de café au Costa Rica ont été enquêtés. Quatre coopératives ont ensuite été sélectionnées pour les études de cas approfondies.Bien que les certifications soient souvent critiqués de ne pas provoquer d‘amélioration au niveau de l'exploitation en raison de la sélection des exploitations conformées uniquement, le facteur qui encourage les coopératives à choisir la certification individuelle est la structure des certifications, y compris la faible demande de café certifié, les incitations faible et variables des prix, les coûts élevés de l'audit et des exigences élevées en gestion et en formation. Au Costa Rica, la certification de café volontaire fournissent des avantages réels, bien que minimes aux coopératives ainsi qu’à leurs membres. Les coopératives prennent des décisions sur la gestion des certifications en fonction de leurs stratégies commerciales, du type de café qu'elles produisent et de leur dotation en capital social, cette qui se manifeste comme une solidarité de groupe ou une approche commerciale. La certification incite à une approche plus holistique de la production de café en nécessitant plus de formations et de services liés à la production durable. Elle encourage les coopératives à collaborer avec d'autres parties prenantes, en augmentant leur connectivité et leur capital social. Cela donne aux membres un accès à de nouvelles connaissances et services, ce qui peut potentiellement créer un cercle vertueux de production de capital social.La certification peut cependant encourager les coopératives à offrir des services supplémentaires ou des incitations financières à une partie de leurs membres seulement. Un niveau élevé de capital social est nécessaire au niveau administratif pour assurer une répartition équitable des avantages de la certification tout en offrant des incitations aux membres à poursuivre la certificationVoluntary certifications offer consumers information on the process in which products are produced. Farmers’ organizations play an important role in the management of certifications and in small-farmer access to certified markets. Costa Rican farmers’ organizations have a long history of participation in the certified value chain and in fomenting small farmers’ access to certified markets. Farmers’ organizations also make strategic decisions related to the organization’s participation in the certified value chain and how farmers are supported and incentivized to join.For these reasons Costa Rica provides an interesting milieu to study how farmers’ organizations manage certifications. Because of their importance in the certification process in Costa Rica, this research focuses on cooperatives and consortia of cooperatives. Considering the gap in knowledge regarding the role of cooperatives and voluntary coffee certifications, this thesis presents the following questions: What is the role of cooperatives in the management of voluntary coffee certifications?, What are the advantages and disadvantages of participation in voluntary certifications for cooperatives?, What changes do certifications induce at the cooperative and farm levels?, What social aspects in Costa Rica influence the management and effectiveness of certifications? Administrators from twenty of the twenty-two coffee cooperatives in Costa Rica were interviewed to obtain basic data on harvest size, membership and management and participation in certifications. Four cooperatives were selected for in-depth case studies.Certifications are often criticized for not eliciting widespread change at the farm level due to the selection of compliant farms, but it is the structure of the certifications, including low demand, weak and variable price incentives, high costs of auditing and high requirements for management and training, which incentivize cooperatives to choose individual certifications.In Costa Rica, voluntary coffee certifications promote small but real benefits to cooperatives and their members. Cooperatives make decisions about the management of certifications based on their business strategies, the type of coffee they produce and the social capital inherent in the cooperative, which is manifested as a group solidarity approach or a commercial approach.Certifications incite a more holistic approach to coffee production by requiring training and services related to sustainable production. Certifications encourage cooperatives to collaborate with other stakeholders, increasing their connectedness and organizational social capital. This gives members access to new knowledge and services and has the potential to create a virtuous cycle of the production of social capital.Certifications, however, may induce cooperatives to offer additional services or financial incentives to some members and not to others. A high level of social capital is needed at the administrative level to ensure an equitable distribution of the benefits of certifications while still offering members incentives to pursue certifications
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Graham, Sarah. "An analysis of efficiency in banking : a case study of the People's National Cooperative Bank of Jamaica." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/97401.
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Thesis (MDF)--Stellenbosch University, 2013.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research report is a case study of a rural agricultural cooperative bank, the People’s National Cooperative Bank (NPCB). The NPCB has its foundations in the early 1900s and today operates 37 branches across the island of Jamaica. Notwithstanding its history, the NPCB has continued to suffer from issues related to overall profitability and therefore has undergone various transformations and amalgamations of branches over the years. This study involves a comparative analysis of branch performance based on branch-specific financial data. Best and worst practice banks are identified along with their key characteristics in order to pinpoint areas of operations that may benefit from improvement. It is suggested that the variance in the level of efficiency with which resources are employed and incomes earned are factors which affect the level of performance of individual branches. The findings of the research indicate large variations in branch expenses, incomes and lending rates and suggest the need for further examination of branches on a case-by-case basis in order to better facilitate improvements in their respective levels of efficiency.
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Gömec, Görkem. "Building Rural Development Strategies Through Energy Resilience in Turkey: A Brown Revolution of Biogas and Cooperatives." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-209718.
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While the growth of Turkey brings many prosperities, the required energy for this development creates a dependency that goes up to 80% of total energy consumption. In order to have a resilient energy system that adapts to sudden changes in an area where political and social conditions are not stable, Turkey needs a renewable energy source produced by domestic resources. This study shows that the abundant resources in agriculture sector for biomass energy production, especially biogas production, can be that energy source however, this will require a new rural development model that uses cooperatives in its centre. Further research and interviews suggest that, the cooperatives have the capacity, but not all of them have the opportunity and the support to take upon this task.
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Tshunungwa, Bongiwe Gcotyelwa. "The role of agricultural cooperatives in developing previously disadvantaged black rural communities in the Eastern Cape province since 2005 : the case study of Cannon Farm in Queenstown." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1020795.
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the role played by agricultural cooperatives in developing the rural areas of the Eastern Cape Province. It also looks at the contributions by Government in promoting the establishment and the success of these cooperatives. The focus area was Cannon Farm in the Chris Hani District Municipality, where most of the people live below the poverty line, but have started agricultural cooperatives with the aim of eradicating poverty and developing their communities. The data for this research was gathered through group discussions and face-to-face interviews which were guided by a questionnaire. A document analysis was also conducted to fulfill all the research objectives. It has been found that agricultural cooperatives, as compared to any other type of cooperatives, are a major tool to eradicate poverty and bring economic development to rural communities. This is made possible not only by the full commitment and determination of cooperative members, but also by government which has also committed itself to providing a supportive legal environment for cooperatives (Cooperative Act No. 14 of 2005). The findings also show that, due to the challenges they are currently facing, agricultural cooperatives in the Eastern Cape Province have not yet reached their full potential. Therefore, it has been recommended that, such challenges need to be urgently addressed. As the United Nations (2001) highlights, agricultural cooperatives present themselves as an important element that can contribute to the realization of the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.
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Mzuyanda, Christian. "Assessing the impact of primary agricultural co-operative membership on smallholder farm performance (crops) in Mnquma Local Municipality of the Eastern Cape Province." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1021285.
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Fortes, Arlindo Rodrigues. "Actividade vitivinícola e rendimento na Ilha do Fogo em Cabo Verde." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/10152.
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Mestrado em Desenvolvimento e Cooperação InternacionalA pobreza em Cabo Verde localiza-se sobretudo no meio rural, onde a agricultura assume a principal actividade económica, proporcionando ganhos reduzidos em virtude da utilização dos sistemas de produção tradicionais. As medidas da política levada a cabo pelo Ministério do Ambiente, do Desenvolvimento Rural, e dos Recursos Marinhos, sublinham a necessidade da criação e diversificação das actividades em meio rural e que possam proporcionar rendimentos aos agricultores. A presente dissertação tem como objectivo principal analisar de que forma o impacto da actividade vitivinícola teve como fonte geradora de rendimento adicional, bem como teve influência na condição de bem-estar dos produtores na ilha do Fogo. Trata-se de um "estudo de caso" cuja problemática assentou na discussão teórica da definição dos conceitos de pobreza, bem-estar, rendimento, cooperativismo e importância da agricultura no desenvolvimento. O trabalho centra a sua atenção nos agricultores das localidades de Chã das Caldeiras, da Achada Grande, Corvo e Relva. Na pesquisa empírica, para além da observação directa, a aplicação de um inquérito por questionário e a realização de entrevistas aos agricultores e outros agentes promotores do desenvolvimento importantes para a análise do tema, foi considerado o método adequado para a obtenção dos dados para aferir o rendimento e os indicadores de bem-estar necessários ao esclarecimento da questão. Os resultados permitem verificar uma participação importante da viticultura no rendimento dos produtores e permite verificar também, que a actividade vitivinícola tem possibilitado um incremento no rendimento e melhoria do nível de bem-estar, minimizando as situações de pobreza.
Poverty in Cape Verde is primarily located in rural areas, where agriculture is the main economic activity, providing reduced revenues due to of traditional production systems. The policy measures taken by the Ministry of Environment, Rural Development and Marine Resources, underlines the need for creation and diversification of activities in rural areas to provide income to farmers. The dissertation's main goal is to analyze how the wine-growing impact had as a source of additional income as well as influenced the well-being condition of producers on the island of Fogo. It is a "case study" which theoretical discussion is based on the definitions of poverty, welfare, income, importance of agriculture and cooperative development. This work focuses attention on farmers of the villages of Chã das Caldeiras, and of Achada Grande, Grande, Corvo and Relva. In empirical research the evaluation of well-being, beyond direct observation, application of a survey and interviews with farmers and others promoting development agents important for the analysis of the subject was considered the appropriate method to obtain data to measure income and well-being indicators, needed to clarify the issue. The results show an important part of wine-growing in producer's income and also allow checking that wine-growing has allowed an increase in producer?s income and an improvement of well-being, minimizing poverty.
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Ghellere, Reginaldo. "REDES DE COOPERAÇÃO DA AGRICULTURA FAMILIAR DO SUL DE SANTA CATARINA." Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 2014. http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/8908.
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Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa AgropecuáriaThis research discusses the role of family agriculture cooperative networks in country life social and economic aspects in southern Santa Catarina. Since colonization period, mainly Italian and German, the region has a history of several agricultural cooperatives formed by agricultural product, some of which having already more than 45 years of operation. From the year 2004, seeking to meet the needs of marketing, appear new agricultural cooperatives in the decentralized model. Thus, the study aims to analyze the importance of agricultural cooperatives by product and decentralized to the social reproduction of family farmers associated with them. To meet this purpose was done a research with twenty associated from four agricultural cooperatives, two by product and two decentralized. The study shows how these cooperatives contribute positively with associated families by creating favorable marketing conditions to local farmers and also providing technical improvement. However, even with the recognition of the benefits of the cooperative, it was found that some associated have not sold their entire production through its cooperative thereby resulting in economic and social losses for the entire system.
Esta investigação versa sobre o papel das redes de cooperação da agricultura familiar na reprodução social das famílias de agricultores familiares. As redes de cooperação estudadas são delimitadas por cooperativas agropecuárias por produto e descentralizadas, localizadas no Sul de Santa Catarina. Desde sua colonização, principalmente italiana e alemã, a região possui um histórico de diversas cooperativas agropecuárias constituídas por produto agrícola, sendo que algumas delas possuem mais de 45 anos de funcionamento. A partir do ano de 2004, procurando atender as necessidades de comercialização de produtos processados pelos próprios agricultores, nos mercados local e institucional, são constituídas novas cooperativas agropecuárias no formato descentralizadas. Assim, o estudo teve como objetivo principal, analisar a importância das cooperativas agropecuárias por produto e descentralizadas para a reprodução social dos agricultores familiares associados às mesmas. Para tanto, foi feita uma pesquisa com vinte associados de quatro cooperativas agropecuárias, sendo duas por produto e duas descentralizadas. O estudo demonstrou que as cooperativas contribuem positivamente com as famílias associadas. Enquanto as cooperativas por produto conseguem ditar condições favoráveis de comercialização do mercado local aos agricultores sócios e também a não-sócios, bem como prestar apoio técnico e oferta de insumos, as cooperativas descentralizadas, por sua vez, viabilizam o acesso a diversos canais de comercialização aos seus associados a partir da formalização dos empreendimentos dos associados. Porém, mesmo com o reconhecimento dos benefícios da cooperativa, constatou-se que alguns cooperados não tem comercializado a totalidade de sua produção por meio das suas cooperativas. Isto resulta em perdas econômicas e sociais para as cooperativas e, respectivamente, para o conjunto dos associados.
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Lucio, Luís Thiago. "Estudo de viabilidade técnica e econômica para o aproveitamento energético do biogás no município de entre rios do oeste Pr: produção centralizada versus produção descentralizada de biogás." Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Parana, 2015. http://tede.unioeste.br:8080/tede/handle/tede/760.
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Previous issue date: 2015-03-05The increase in population in recent decades has resulted in accelerated growth of food production demand. In this scenario, agricultural activity, especially swine, had to adapt to this new market reality through the production empowerment, developing new confinement techniques where the animal density per unit increases significantly. Consequently, this higher animals concentration per production unit confirms the intensification of organic contamination in the environment. However, the sanitary treatment of this residual biomass in anaerobic digestion systems enables the transformation of this environmental liability into an economic asset, once this treatment process enables the generation of two products with economic value - biogas and biofertilizers. Although this solution is environmentally feasible, from the economic point of view it is not always possible due to the costs of biomass treatment with energy purposes. Faced with this problem, an arrangement that demonstrates economically viable is the implementation of agricultural energy cooperatives, once this system allows scaling up the biogas production and enables the diversification of the use of this renewable energy source. In this context, this study aims, through a technical and economic feasibility analysis, identify the best scenario to implement agricultural cooperatives, focused on the residual biomass logistics and on the biogas transportation through pipelines. The methodology proposed in the work involving the municipality Entre Rios do Oeste (PR) has shown that the best scenario to produce biogas for energy purposes is the decentralized generation one, once the analyzed arrangements show a 9 years payback for electricity, 10 years for thermal energy and 7 years for vehicle biomethane, while in the biogas production centralized scenario the payback is 15 years for electricity, 10 years for vehicle biomethane, and there no payback for thermal energy arrangements. In addition, decentralized generation has lower operating costs and there is no legal restrictions on its operation. Keywords: Feasibility
O aumento acentuado da população nas últimas décadas resultou no crescimento acelerado da demanda de produção de alimentos. Diante deste cenário, a atividade agropecuária, e em especial a suinocultura, teve que se adaptar a essa nova realidade de mercado por meio da potencialização da produção a partir do desenvolvimento de novas técnicas de confinamento, onde a densidade de animais por unidade de produção aumenta significativamente. Em consequência, esta maior concentração de animais por unidade produtiva corrobora para intensificação da contaminação orgânica do meio ambiente. Todavia, o tratamento sanitário desta biomassa residual em sistemas de biodigestão anaeróbia possibilita a transformação desse passivo ambiental em um ativo econômico, uma vez que este processo de tratamento possibilita a geração de dois produtos com valor econômico - biogás e biofertilizante. Embora esta solução seja ambientalmente viável, do ponto de vista econômico nem sempre é possível, devido aos custos do tratamento desta biomassa, com fins de aproveitamento energético. Diante desta problemática, um arranjo que se demonstra viável economicamente é a implantação de condomínios de agroenergia, uma vez que este sistema possibilita o ganho de escala na produção de biogás e possibilita a diversificação do uso desta fonte renovável de energia. Neste contexto, o presente trabalho buscou, por meio de um estudo de viabilidade técnica e econômica, identificar qual o melhor cenário para formação de condomínios de agroenergia, trabalhando a logística da biomassa residual e o transporte de biogás por meio de dutos. A aplicação da metodologia proposta no trabalho para o município de Entre Rios do Oeste (PR) demonstrou que o melhor cenário para produção de biogás com fins energéticos é a produção descentralizada, visto que os arranjos analisados demonstram um Payback descontado de 9 anos para energia elétrica, 10 anos para energia térmica e 7 para biometano veicular, enquanto no cenário de geração de biogás centralizada Payback descontado é de 15 anos para energia elétrica, 10 anos para biometano veicular e não recupera no arranjo de energia térmica. Além disso, a geração descentralizada apresenta menores custos operacionais e não possui restrições legais para sua operacionalização.
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Valandro, Keila. "O papel do Programa Nacional de Alimentação Escolar - PNAE para a inserção da agricultura familiar em novos mercados: o caso da COOPAFI - Capanema." Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, 2014. http://repositorio.utfpr.edu.br/jspui/handle/1/1490.
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Essa pesquisa procura avaliar a contribuição do Programa Nacional de Alimentação Escolar (PNAE) na criação de novos mercados para os produtores locais junto a experiência da cooperativa COOPAFI do município de Capanema, uma organização que é referência em inúmeras estratégias de acesso ao mercado institucional para viabilizar a comercialização de produtos dos seus agricultores familiares filiados, mas: Teria o PNAE impactado positivamente a receita desses agricultores? Onde e como os agricultores conseguiriam comercializar os mesmos produtos se não fossem associados à cooperativa? Portanto, a primeira hipótese é de que os agricultores que acessam o PNAE no município de Capanema tiveram efetivo aumento de receita. E a segunda é de que os agricultores não teriam outro meio para conseguir comercializar no mercado local/regional em quantidade próxima ou similar se não fossem cooperados. Desta maneira procurar-se-á compreender qual o papel do PNAE no fortalecimento da agricultura familiar e suas organizações. Em específico, procurar-se-á: (1) investigar os motivos da adesão e permanência dos agricultores no PNAE e compreender a forma como os agricultores se inseriram no PNAE; (2) verificar se o PNAE promoveu a melhoria das condições de vida da população envolvida; (3) identificar quais são os alimentos adquiridos pela COOPAFI – Capanema no atendimento de suas demandas locais/regionais para perceber as motivações e percepções dos mesmos frente as possibilidade de geração de renda não apenas no curto prazo; (4) descrever o perfil socioeconômico dos agricultores participantes do PNAE verificando a influência dessa política na inserção dos agricultores familiares em novos mercados. A pesquisa constatou um efetivo aumento de receita entre os cooperados, o que evidencia o papel do PNAE no fortalecimento da agricultura familiar, entretanto, não foi possível caracterizar a extrema dependência dos agricultores à cooperativa, mas, uma inserção em novos mercados que propiciou a diversificação da produção; aumento da quantidade produzida; a qualificação do agricultor para a melhoria da qualidade dos produtos; a especialização do trabalho na agroindústria e o conhecimento de novos canais de comercialização.This research evaluates the contribution of the National School Feeding Programme (PNAE) in creating new markets for local producers to the experience of cooperative COOPAFI the municipality of Capanema, an organization that is a reference in many strategies to access the institutional market to enable the marketing of products of its affiliated farmers, but: Did the PNAE positively impacted the revenue from these farmers? Where and how the farmers to sell their products if they were not associated with the cooperative? Therefore, the first hypothesis is that farmers who access the PNAE in the municipality of Capanema had effective increase income. And the second is that farmers would have no other means to achieve market in the local / regional market in close or similar amount if they were not members. This way will be sought to understand the role of PNAE in strengthening family agriculture and its organizations. In particular, efforts will be made: (1) investigate the reasons for accession and farmers remain in the PNAE and understand how farmers were inserted in PNAE; (2) verify that the PNAE helped improve the living conditions of the population involved; (3) identify which foods purchased by COOPAFI - Capanema in meeting their local / regional demands to understand the motivations and perceptions thereof forward the possibility of generating income not only in the short term; (4) describe the socioeconomic profile of participants PNAE farmers and the influence of this policy on the integration of family farmers in new markets. The survey found an effective increase in revenue among the cooperative, which highlights the role of PNAE in strengthening family farming, however, was not possible to characterize the extreme dependence of farmers to the cooperative, but an insert into new markets that led to the diversification production; increase in the quantity produced; the qualification of the farmer to improve the quality of products; the specialization of labor in the agricultural industry and the knowledge of new marketing channels.
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Silva, Daliane Rahmeier da. "Agricultura familiar no contexto do cooperativismo em assentamento rural coletivo: o caso da Cooperativa de Produção Agropecuária Vitória." Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Parana, 2007. http://tede.unioeste.br:8080/tede/handle/tede/2160.
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Previous issue date: 2007-03-09The accomplishment of the present study aimed at to analyze one in the ways of insert cooperatives to diagnose the viability of the family agriculture through the production cooperatives in a collective establishment. They were defined as hypotheses that the family agriculture is a concept that incorporates a diversity of specific and private situations; and also the cooperative of agricultural production is a form of to maintain and to make possible the family farmer in the field. The results of the case study demonstrated that the collective cooperatives, rendered in the production relationship, in the participation form and distribution, it supplied the base for the development of COPAVI, located in the northwest area of the State of Paraná. In a general way, the accomplishment of the research close to the cooperative behaved for the acceptance of the formulated hypotheses. On the first hypothesis, it was verified that the family agriculture adapts in realities, in that it is pertinent to consider that the analyzed model - the collective cooperatives - under the form of the cooperative of agricultural production, he/she comes as what has better possibilities to accomplish an intensive exploration, could provide larger income to the farmers due to the production volume and of the agroindustrialização built by the cooperative. In relation to the second hypothesis, the study evidenced that the organization and the forms of participation of the cooperative, in a collective atmosphere based in a process of planning of the space and of the actions, it made possible the materialization of productive structures and of support, making possible the permanence of those families in the agriculture. It is worth to stand out, however, that such form of cooperative organization and of optimization of the collective work it is only possible when the families are adapted to the system and they present the same ideal, because all have the same rights and the same economical and social value
A realização do presente estudo objetivou analisar uma das formas de inserção cooperativista para diagnosticar a viabilidade da agricultura familiar através do cooperativismo de produção num assentamento coletivo. Definiram-se como hipóteses que a agricultura familiar é um conceito que incorpora uma diversidade de situações específicas e particulares; e também a cooperativa de produção agropecuária é uma forma de manter e viabilizar o agricultor familiar no campo. Os resultados do estudo de caso demonstraram que o cooperativismo coletivo, concretizado na relação de produção, na forma de participação e distribuição, forneceu a base para o desenvolvimento da COPAVI, localizada na região noroeste do Estado do Paraná. De maneira geral, a realização da pesquisa junto à cooperativa conduziu-se pela aceitação das hipóteses formuladas. Sobre a primeira hipótese, verificou-se que a agricultura familiar se adapta em realidades, em que é pertinente considerar que o modelo analisado - o cooperativismo coletivo - sob a forma da cooperativa de produção agropecuária, apresenta-se como o que tem melhores possibilidades de realizar uma exploração intensiva, podendo proporcionar maior rendimento aos agricultores devido ao volume de produção e da agroindustrialização construída pela cooperativa. Em relação à segunda hipótese, o estudo evidenciou que a organização e as formas de participação da cooperativa, num ambiente coletivo fundamentado num processo de planejamento do espaço e das ações, possibilitou a materialização de estruturas produtivas e de suporte, viabilizando a permanência dessas famílias na agricultura. Vale ressaltar, porém, que tal forma de organização cooperativa e de otimização do trabalho coletivo só é possível quando as famílias se adequam ao sistema e apresentam o mesmo ideal, pois todos têm os mesmos direitos e o mesmo valor econômico e social
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Milacek, Emil C. Jr. "An Assessment of the Effect of the Investment Tax Credit on Capital Investment in Farm Supply Cooperatives in Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1986. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331735/.
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The purpose of this study is to shed more light on whether the investment tax credit is effective in stimulating capital investment. The sample includes 104 local cooperatives. The majority of the data was collected from the files of the St. Paul, Minnesota, Bank for Cooperatives.
The study has a single purpose of determining whether the changes to the Internal Revenue Code in the Revenue Tax Act of 1978 had an effect on the capital expenditure levels of farm supply cooperatives. In 1978 the investment tax credit became fully available to cooperatives. Previous abatement rules were abolished, and unused credit was then passed through in full to the cooperative membership.
The research model employed is a pooled time-series and cross-sectional approach, and includes data for years 1975 through 1983. In addition to capital expenditure data, the company-specific variables are debt/asset ratio, local margin, and net margin. Economic variables are a net interest-inflation rate factor, cash receipts from farming, and loan volume of banks for cooperatives. Also included are dummy variables 0 and 1, trend variables 1-9, and interaction variables for all the main-effects variables.
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Daley, Patricia O. "Refugees and underdevelopment in Africa : the case of Barundi refugees in Tanzania." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1989. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:61d14ce2-4a9c-4a13-9a56-6360094cf502.
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Using an empirical study of the Barundi refugee settlements of Ulyankulu, Mishamo, and particularly Katumba in Western Tanzania, this study argues that the causes and consequences of the African refugee problem must be examined outside the normative humanitarian framework. It postulates that the refugee problem can be understood only in the historical context of the integration of African communities into the capitalist system and their resultant underdevelopment. Furthermore, that the neo-colonial state, its class character, and ethnic divisions, aggravated by economic crisis, fosters a climate of repression - prompting forced migration. The unequal relationship between western capital and Tanzania is exemplified in the microcosm of the refugee phenomenon, where international/ regional policy, legislation, security considerations, and aid not only demobilize a potential political force, but usurp the authority of the national and local state. Donor/state/refugee relationships are further discussed in the context of the settlements. The schemes, located in remote areas and with tight restrictions on mobility, while providing a humanitarian solution, act as mechanisms for the control of the Barundi refugees. Utilization of their labour is intentionally part of Tanzania's development strategy. Settlement and integration are discussed in relation to the contribution of Barundi people to the development of commodity production in Tanzania both historically and with regard to their current potential. While dismissing the notion of an undifferentiated mass of refugees, this study reveals how donor activities and the objective material conditions of the rural areas contribute to commodity production and mercantilist activities with increasing inequalities. It concludes that large groups of refugees in rural areas will inevitably heighten local tensions, and that only through greater x political liberalization' - removal of restrictions on mobility and political representation, will Barundi refugees gain control of their lives, and Tanzania's long-standing goal of the liberation of African peoples be realized.
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Pivoto, Dieisson. "Governança cooperativa : uma análise dos problemas oriundos dos direitos de propriedade difusos nas cooperativas agropecuárias do Rio Grande do Sul." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/70628.
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As cooperativas agropecuárias são representativas dentro do cooperativismo e do agronegócio brasileiro. O ramo agropecuário possui 23% do total de cooperativas brasileiras (OCB, 2010), com participação considerável em inúmeras cadeias do agronegócio. Apesar da importância dessas organizações, com as mudanças que ocorreram nas últimas décadas na economia brasileira e mundial, como abertura econômica, menor aporte financeiro do estado às cooperativas agropecuárias e internacionalização dos mercados, muitas dessas organizações têm apresentado dificuldade de se manterem no mercado. As cooperativas agropecuárias tradicionais, conforme descreve Cook (1995), possuem os seus direitos de propriedade difusos, gerando problemas de governança (carona, horizonte, portfólio, controle e custos de influência), causando conflitos na organização cooperativa. De acordo com a intensidade dos problemas mencionados, podem levar à liquidação do empreendimento cooperativo. O Rio Grande do Sul apresenta-se como um dos estados onde o cooperativismo teve sua gênese. Diante do exposto, o trabalho teve como objetivo verificar a presença e a intensidade dos problemas oriundos dos direitos de propriedade difusos, bem como analisar e discutir as estratégias empregadas pelas cooperativas agropecuárias do Rio Grande do Sul e presentes na literatura para minimizar esses problemas. Verificou-se que o problema mais intenso nas cooperativas agropecuárias do estado é o do horizonte, sendo seguindo pelo problema do carona, de portfólio, de controle e custos de influência. Constatou-se que, em geral, as cooperativas que têm os “grãos” como principal atividade de negócio apresentam maior intensidade do problema do horizonte e carona que o grupo das demais cooperativas. As cooperativas agropecuárias do estado apresentam um grande número de estratégias e mecanismos para minimizar os problemas oriundos dos direitos de propriedade difusos, diferindo entre os diferentes grupos de cooperativas. No entanto, a ausência de estratégias para mitigar os problemas em algumas cooperativas, aumenta a incidência dos problemas. Os novos modelos organizacionais de cooperativas podem ser uma forma de minimizar os problemas de governança das cooperativas agropecuárias do Rio Grande do Sul.The agriculture cooperatives are representative within Brazilian cooperativism and agribusiness. The agricultural line of business detains 23% of the total of Brazilian cooperatives (OCB, 2010), with a considerable participation in several chains of agribusiness. Despite the importance of these organizations, with the changes that took place in the last decade in the Brazilian and the world’s economy, such as the opening of economy, the diminishing of financial support from the government to the agricultural cooperatives and the internationalization of the market, many organizations such as these have been showing difficulties to keep themselves in the market. The traditional agricultural cooperatives, as Cook describes (1995), have their ownership rights diffused, creating governance issues (“free ride”, horizon, portfolio, control and influence costs), causing conflicts in the cooperative organization. According to the intensity of the issues mentioned above, they can liquidate the cooperative enterprise. Rio Grande do Sul is one of the states where cooperativism had its genesis. Considering what has been presented so far, the goal of this work was to verify the presence and intensity of the issues stemming from the diffused ownership rights, as well as analyze and discuss the strategies used by the agricultural cooperatives of Rio Grande do Sul and that are present in the literature in order to minimize these problems. It was verified that the most intense problem in the agricultural cooperatives in the state is the one related to “horizon”, followed by the “free ride” problem, the portfolio, the control and the influence costs ones. It was also verified that the cooperatives which have “grains” as their main business activity present a greater intensity of the “horizon” and the “free ride” problems, compared to the group of the other cooperatives. The state’s agricultural cooperatives have a great number of strategies and mechanisms to minimize the issues stemming from the diffused ownership rights, differing amongst the different cooperative groups. The lack of strategies to minimize the problems in some cooperatives increases the incidence of these issues. The new organizational models of the cooperatives can be a way of minimizing the governance problems of the agricultural cooperatives of Rio Grande do Sul.
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Milani, Renata. "Análise dos problemas de governança em cooperativas de produtores de leite familiares." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/172077.
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As cooperativas agrícolas são estruturas econômicas intermediárias que possibilitama criação de condições mais favoráveis de relacionamento com os mercados. Conforme Cook (1995), estas organizações apresentam direitos de propriedade difusos ou vagamente definidos acarretando em dificuldades de gestão e ineficiência econômica.A partir dos aspectos mencionados,esta dissertação propôs-se a analisar e discutir a existência do problema do horizonte e do carona em cooperativas de produtores de leite familiares do Rio Grande do Sul, cooperativas estas com perfil diferenciado das organizações analisadas por Cook (1995) e posteriormente por autores brasileiros. Para tanto, utilizou-se de uma amostra intencional não probabilística onde foram pesquisadas 2 cooperativas de produtores de leite familiares.Foram aplicados 31 roteiros de entrevistas semiestruturadas aos produtores de leite cooperados, funcionários e presidentes das organizações selecionadas para o estudo. As entrevistas foram realizadas no segundo semestre de 2016. Os resultados apontam que os produtores possuem uma visão de curto prazo quanto ao empreendimento, ou seja, os produtores não estão dispostos a assumir riscos na organização e estão mais preocupados com sua propriedade agrícola do que com a organização cooperativa. Com relação às estratégias usadas para minimizar estes problemas, constatou-se que estas se apresentam de maneira diferenciada das estratégias propostas por Cook (1995). Percebeu-se ainda que os respondentes não possuem clara percepção das estratégias que são usadas na organização. Além disso, os cooperados não possuem visão clara de seu papel dentro da organização, esta indefinição gera espaço para ações oportunistas prejudicando a gestão das cooperativas. Pode-se considerar que os problemas oriundos dos direitos de propriedade difusos interferem e podem gerar ineficiências na gestão das organizações cooperativas de produtores de leite familiares no estado do Rio Grande do Sul. Portanto, para a sobrevivência destas organizações é necessário que algumas estratégias sejam adotadase outras intensificadas para minimizar os problemas de governança observados.Agricultural cooperatives are intermediary economic structures that allow the creation of more favorable conditions of relationship with the markets. According to Cook (1995), these organizations have diffuse or vaguely defined property rights leading to management difficulties and economic inefficiency. From the mentioned aspects, this dissertation proposed to analyze and discuss the existence of the problem of the horizon and the hitch in cooperatives of milk producers familiar in Rio Grande do Sul, cooperatives with a different profile of the organizations analyzed by Cook (1995) and later by Brazilian authors. For this purpose, a non-probabilistic intentional sample was used in which 2 cooperatives of family milk producers were surveyed. Thirty-one semi-structured interview scripts were applied to the cooperative milk producers, officials and presidents of the organizations selected for the study. Interviews were conducted in the second half of 2016. The results indicate that producers have a short-term view of the enterprise, ie producers are not willing to take risks in the organization and are more concerned with their agricultural property than with the cooperative organization. In relation to the strategies used to minimize these problems, these were presented in a different way from the strategies proposed by Cook (1995) It was also noticed that the respondents do not have a clear perception of the strategies that are used in the organization. In addition, cooperatives do not have a clear vision of their role within the organization, this lack of definition generates space for opportunistic actions that undermine the management of cooperatives. It can be considered that problems stemming from diffuse property rights interfere and may lead to inefficiencies in the management of cooperative organizations of milk producers in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Therefore, for the survival of these organizations it is necessary that some strategies be adopted and others intensified to minimize observed governance problems.
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Azerêdo, Raoni Fernandes [UNESP]. "Agronegócio cooperativo da COAMO: territorialização, poder e controle." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/144211.
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Trataremos neste estudo, da maior cooperativa singular capitalista da América Latina, a COAMO - Agroindustrial Cooperativa, localizada em Campo Mourão, Estado do Paraná/Brasil. Esta foi criada e incentivada pelo Estado no auge dos “anos de chumbo” do regime militar, especialmente através da Extensão Rural, com um propósito claro de atender às demandas do capital no campo. A COAMO é caracterizada por uma estratégia de agressiva expansão territorial para novos mercados econômicos, ganhos de escala e competitividade, na qual acaba exercendo profunda influência política e mudanças do espaço agrário em territórios por ela dominados. Também, sua estratégia induz uma dinâmica de processo de materialização de relações sociais de produção tipicamente capitalista, voltando-se para uma agricultura moderna/tecnicizada, fortemente especializada nos grãos (em especial a soja), que permeada por uma aliança entre burguesia agrária e tecnocracia, engendram relações de exclusão de pequenos cooperados e de subalternidade camponesa ao modelo do agronegócio. O estudo dessa forma de organização cooperativa é fundamental para entendermos as atuais dinâmicas econômicas, sociais, políticas e ambientais no meio rural brasileiro, e as contradições resultantes do prevalecimento da concentração privada da propriedade, da monocultura e da produção voltada especialmente para o mercado externo (commodities), intensiva na utilização de insumos químicos e na exploração do trabalho.
The present study will treat about the leading co-operative capitalist of Latin America, COAMO–Agroindustrial Cooperativa, located in Campo Mourão, State of Parana /Brazil. It was created and encouraged by the State at the height of the "years of lead" of the military regime, especially through the Rural Extension, with a clear purpose to meet the demands of the capital in the field. The COAMO is characterized by an aggressive territorial expansion strategy for new economic markets, economies of scale and competitiveness, which ends up playing deep political influence and change the agrarian space in territories dominated by it. Also, its strategy induces a dynamic of realization of social relationships typically capitalist production process, turning to modern agriculture / technicized , strongly specialized in grains (especially soybeans), which permeated by an alliance between agrarian bourgeoisie and technocracy, engender exclusion relations small cooperatives and peasant subordination to the agribusiness model. The study of this form of cooperative organization is critical to understand the current economic dynamics, social, political and environmental in the Brazilian countryside, and the contradictions arising from prevailing of private ownership concentration, monoculture and production focused especially for the export market (commodities), intensive use of chemical inputs and labor exploitation.
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Vasco, Ana Paula Debastiani. "Autogestão e sustentabilidade na Cresol de Dois Vizinhos - PR: uma possibilidade alternativa?" Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, 2012. http://repositorio.utfpr.edu.br/jspui/handle/1/376.
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Este trabalho está vinculado a uma problemática conjunta de pesquisa que visa entender se a gestão de programas ou políticas públicas desenvolvidas por organizações não governamentais (ONG) ou órgãos públicos de Dois Vizinhos se alinham aos preceitos do desenvolvimento da agricultura familiar, numa perspectiva sustentável. Para tanto foi realizado um diagnóstico sócio-economico-ambiental na comunidade Fazenda Mazurana, com o objetivo de entender a dinâmica das ações dessas organizações na situação de vida dos agricultores familiares da comunidade. Especificamente esse trabalho concentrou-se na Cooperativa de Crédito Rural Cresol. Entende-se que há evidências teóricas e contextuais que permitem apontar a economia solidária como uma proposta alternativa para a agricultura familiar. Este modelo de organização preconiza um processo econômico-social autogestionário. Nesse sentido, buscou-se entender como os agricultores cooperados compreendem e participam da autogestão visando identificar como esse modelo tem conduzido, ou não, as famílias agricultoras à práticas sustentáveis. A esse respeito identificou-se as boas/razoáveis condições dos cooperados da Cresol, resultado principalmente do Programa Água Limpa acessado pela comunidade via Prefeitura Municipal e, ao que pareceu, das estratégias montadas pelos próprios agricultores.Verificou-se algumas tendências dos rumos da organização no caso ilustrativo da Cresol de Dois Vizinhos-PR que, pode apontar para orientações do Sistema Cresol.This work is bound to issue a joint research aimed at understanding the management of public policies or programs developed by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) or public bodies of two neighbors line up to the precepts of the development of family farming in a sustainable perspective. To do so was made a diagnosis socio-economic-environmental community Mazurana Farm, in order to understand the dynamics of the actions of these organizations in the life situation of the farmers of the community. Specifically, this work focused on the Rural Credit Cooperative Cresol. It is understood that there are theoretical and contextual evidence that may point out the social economy as an alternative proposal to the family farm. This model proposes a process of organizing economic and social self-management. Accordingly, we sought to understand how farmers understand and participate in cooperative self-management to identify how this model has led, or not, the sustainable practices of farming families. In this respect we identified good / reasonable conditions of the cooperative Cresol, mainly as a result of the Clean Water program accessed via the community and City Hall, it seemed, strategies mounted by the agricultures. Some trends were checked in the direction of the organization the illustrative case of two neighbors of Cresol-PR that can point to System guidelines Cresol.
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Thomaz, Fernanda. "A coletivização agrícola em questão: comparação entre a produção coletiva do Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) e as Cooperativas de Produção Agropecuárias de Cuba." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8136/tde-23032016-122312/.
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A presente pesquisa de doutorado teve o objetivo de analisar o modelo socialista de produção agrícola coletiva implantado através das Cooperativas de Produção Agropecuárias (CPAs), tanto em Cuba, a partir do início da década de 1970, quanto pelo Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST), no Brasil, a partir de meados da década de 1980. Nas CPAs a lógica de vida e produção camponesa são transformadas para dar lugar ao trabalho agrícola na lógica socialista. O trabalho antes realizado pela família camponesa, visando a satisfação das suas necessidades, passa a ser realizado pelo trabalhador cooperado, visando o aumento da produção, produtividade e eficiência. A coletivização agrícola é decorrente de um debate histórico no interior do marxismo sobre a necessidade de transformações nas relações de produção e propriedade visando a superação do capitalismo. A perspectiva teórica que a fundamenta é a marxista-leninista, que vê o campesinato como classe em extinção no capitalismo, e sem lugar no socialismo. A principal tese que a sustenta é a superioridade da grande produção agrícola em detrimento da pequena produção camponesa. No Brasil, a pesquisa de campo foi realizada em assentamentos do MST do Estado do Pará, e em Cuba, no município de Vinhales, província de Pinar del Río. Uma contradição semelhante a ambos os casos é que a agricultura coletiva, como grande unidade produtiva, demanda investimentos e recursos permanentes, que nem sempre as cooperativas são capazes de arcar. Com isso há perda de autonomia sobre a produção e os resultados econômicos podem não ser os esperados. Em decorrência, tanto no MST, quanto em Cuba, há um movimento de reflexão sobre as contradições da produção agrícola coletiva, e um considerável retorno dos cooperados à condição camponesa, trazendo à tona novamente o debate sobre o papel do campesinato na construção de um mundo melhor e mais justo.The doctoral research this aimed to analyze the socialist model of collective agricultural production implemented through the Agricultural Production Cooperatives (CPAs), both in Cuba, from the beginning of the 1970s, and by the Rural Workers Landless Movement ( MST) in Brazil since the mid-1980s CPAs In the logic of life and peasant production are transformed to make way for agricultural labor in the socialist logic. The work done before the peasant family in order to satisfy their needs, is now held by the cooperative worker, aimed at increasing production, productivity and efficiency. The agricultural collectivization is due to a historical debate within Marxism on the need for changes in production and property relations aimed at overcoming of capitalism. The theoretical perspective underlying it is the Marxist-Leninist, you see on the peasantry as a class endangered in capitalism, and no place in socialism. The main thesis that sustains it is the superiority of large agricultural production at the expense of small peasant production. In Brazil, the field survey was conducted in the state of Para MST settlements, and Cuba in the town of Vinales, Pinar del Río. A similar contradiction to both cases is that collective farming, as large manufacturing plant, investment demand and permanent resources that are not always cooperatives are able to afford. Thus, there is a loss of autonomy over production and economic results cannot be expected. As a result, both the MST, as in Cuba, there is a reflection movement on the contradictions of collective farming, and a considerable return of the cooperative to the peasant condition, bringing up again the debate on the role of the peasantry in building a world better and fairer.
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Krumpelman-Farmer, Elaine L. "The investment horizon issue in user-owned organizations." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4162.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2005.The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file viewed on (May 10, 2007) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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Ben, Marilucia. "Os "nós" da territorialização da Cooperativa Agroindustrial Lar: no Oeste Paranaense." Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Parana, 2011. http://tede.unioeste.br:8080/tede/handle/tede/124.
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Previous issue date: 2011-09-29The profound changes occurring in the field linked to the expansion of capitalist relations have led to various interpretations about the role of agricultural cooperatives. To understand the cooperative Agroindustrial Lar analysis on the cooperative movement were relevant. In this context, some assumptions are gaining strength, with the transformation of the cooperative system in agro-industry in which consolidated the Agroindustrial Complex. The territorialization and deterritorialization of Agroindustrial Cooperative Home on West Paraná involves mediating relations regarding the process of agricultural modernization, capitalism territorialized in the field, which is essentially contradictory. It is on this issue dealt with in this work, which cut is the geographical western regions that has high rate of incorporation of agricultural modernization in the period 1960 to 1980. Thus the evidence about the mediation process in front of the Cooperativa Agroindustrial Lar agricultural modernization are presented from the intensification of technologies used in rural properties. The theoretical-conceptual territory is developed by many theorists of philosophy, sociology and geography, we turn to discussions of the Swiss geographer Raffestin reflecting on the territory and territoriality in the context of power relations. The "we" of the territorialization of the cooperative study in western regions are related to the meeting point between the relations of society, in this case based on governmental powers, cooperative and religious. The fieldwork on rural properties is based on qualitative research and discuss the overlapping power relations that develop in the field, construction of new territoriality from the mediation of the cooperative.
As profundas transformações ocorridas no campo atreladas à expansão das relações capitalistas têm provocado diversas interpretações acerca do papel do cooperativismo agrícola. Para compreender a Cooperativa Agroindustrial Lar análises sobre o movimento cooperativista foram pertinentes. Nesse contexto, alguns pressupostos ganham força, com a transformação do sistema cooperativista em agroindústria na qual se consolidou o Complexo Agroindustrial. A territorialização e a desterritorialização da Cooperativista Agroindustrial Lar, no Oeste paranaense, envolve relações mediadoras frente ao processo de modernização agrícola, territorializando o capitalismo no campo, processo que é essencialmente contraditório. É sobre essa questão que trata este trabalho, cujo recorte geográfico é o Oeste do Paraná, que apresenta alto índice de incorporação da modernização agrícola no período de 1960 a 1980. Dessa maneira, as evidências sobre o processo de mediação da Cooperativa Agroindustrial Lar frente à modernização agrícola estão apresentadas a partir da intensificação das tecnologias empregadas nas propriedades rurais. A reflexão teórico-conceitual sobre o território é desenvolvida por muitos teóricos da filosofia, da sociologia e da geografia, mas nos atemos às discussões do geógrafo suíço Raffestin, pois que ele reflete especificamente sobre o território e territorialidade no âmbito das relações de poder. Os nós da territorialização da cooperativa estudada no Oeste do Paraná estão relacionados aos pontos de encontro entre as relações da sociedade, neste caso relações baseadas nos poderes governamentais, cooperativistas e religioso. O trabalho de campo realizado nas propriedades rurais está baseado na pesquisa qualitativa e permite discutir as imbricadas relações de poder que se desenvolvem no campo na construção de novas territorialidades a partir da mediação do cooperativismo.
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Azerêdo, Raoni Fernandes. "Agronegócio cooperativo da COAMO : territorialização, poder e controle /." São Paulo, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/144211.
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Orientador: Pedro Ivan ChristoffoliResumo: Trataremos neste estudo, da maior cooperativa singular capitalista da América Latina, a COAMO - Agroindustrial Cooperativa, localizada em Campo Mourão, Estado do Paraná/Brasil. Esta foi criada e incentivada pelo Estado no auge dos “anos de chumbo” do regime militar, especialmente através da Extensão Rural, com um propósito claro de atender às demandas do capital no campo. A COAMO é caracterizada por uma estratégia de agressiva expansão territorial para novos mercados econômicos, ganhos de escala e competitividade, na qual acaba exercendo profunda influência política e mudanças do espaço agrário em territórios por ela dominados. Também, sua estratégia induz uma dinâmica de processo de materialização de relações sociais de produção tipicamente capitalista, voltando-se para uma agricultura moderna/tecnicizada, fortemente especializada nos grãos (em especial a soja), que permeada por uma aliança entre burguesia agrária e tecnocracia, engendram relações de exclusão de pequenos cooperados e de subalternidade camponesa ao modelo do agronegócio. O estudo dessa forma de organização cooperativa é fundamental para entendermos as atuais dinâmicas econômicas, sociais, políticas e ambientais no meio rural brasileiro, e as contradições resultantes do prevalecimento da concentração privada da propriedade, da monocultura e da produção voltada especialmente para o mercado externo (commodities), intensiva na utilização de insumos químicos e na exploração do trabalho.
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Jonsson, Thomas. "Essays on agricultural and environmental policy." Doctoral thesis, Umeå, Sweden : Umeå University, 2007. http://www.econ.umu.se/ues/ues719.pdf.
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Flaviano, Viviane. "Satisfação e comprometimento organizaconal em cooperativas agrícolas." Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 2014. http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/4746.
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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível SuperiorThis study had as motivations the gaps on theories of satisfaction and organizational commitment involving organizations such as Cooperatives, specifically agricultural cooperatives. The main objective is to identify the relations between Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment. To analyze the organizational commitment, it was used the scale developed by Medeiros and Enders (1998) and the satisfaction scale was validated. For this purpose, it was made a survey research , of descriptive character and quantitative nature, with 305 members of four agricultural cooperatives in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Regarding Satisfaction in Cooperative five factors were found, namely the Service, Input, Social and Economic, Location and Service Structure and Physical appearance. Regarding the organizational commitment in relation to members, the results indicate a high affective and instrumental commitment. By the test, it is possible to observe a relationship between the profile variables and factors of satisfaction, in which the cooperatives with more than twenty years have relation associated with the Location Service and the Cooperative. Members who do not hold a management position has major concerns with the Service, Input and social and economic aspect of their cooperative. On the subject of the cooperative of college graduates and those who participate in activities or meetings more than once or twice a year, are committed instrumentally, while those who do not occupy a management position have affective commitment. By establishing relationships between constructs may be evident that there are correlations, in its majority, moderate. Finally, regarding the relations between satisfaction and organizational commitment relationships, it was observed a strong correlation between affective commitment and Service factor, a moderate correlation in most of the factor and weak only between the Instrumental focus and the Service factor.
Este estudo teve como motivação as lacunas sobre teorias de satisfação e de comprometimento organizacional envolvendo organizações do tipo Cooperativas, especificamente as cooperativas agrícolas. Tendo como objetivo principal identificar as relações entre a Satisfação e o Comprometimento Organizacional. Para analisar o comprometimento organizacional foi utilizada a escala desenvolvida por Medeiros e Enders (1998) e a escala de satisfação foi validada. Para tanto, foi realizada uma pesquisa survey, de caráter descritivo, de natureza quantitativa, com 305 associados de quatro cooperativas agrícolas do estado do Rio Grande do Sul. Em relação à Satisfação em Cooperativas foram encontrados cinco fatores, sendo eles o Serviço, Insumo, Aspecto Social e Econômico, Localização e Estrutura Física e Atendimento. No que tange ao comprometimento organizacional, em relação aos associados, os resultados indicam um elevado comprometimento afetivo e instrumental. Através do teste t, pode-se observar uma relação entre as variáveis de perfil e os fatores de satisfação, sendo que os cooperados com mais de vinte anos de associado possui relação com o Serviço e a Localização da Cooperativa. Membros que não ocupam cargo de gestão têm maiores preocupações com o Serviço, o Insumo e o Aspecto social e econômico da sua cooperativa. No que diz respeito aos cooperados de curso superior e os que participam de atividades ou assembleias mais de uma a duas vezes por ano, são comprometidos instrumentalmente, enquanto que os que não ocupam cargo de gestão possuem comprometimento afetivo. Ao estabelecer relações entre os construtos, pode-se evidenciar que existem correlações na sua maioria moderadas. Por fim, no que se refere às relações existentes entre a satisfação e o comprometimento organizacional, observou-se uma forte correlação entre fator Serviço e o comprometimento afetivo, uma correlação moderada na maioria dos fatores e fraca apenas entre o enfoque Instrumental e o fator Atendimento.
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Valent, Joice Zagna. "O processo decisório na transição agroecológica dos agricultores da cooperativa leoboqueirense de agricultores familiares." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/97861.
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Este estudo analisa o processo decisório dos cooperados, ocorrido na transição agroecológica da Cooperativa Leoboqueirense de Agricultores Familiares - COOPERLAF. Esta Cooperativa está em fase de mudança do sistema produtivo: da agricultura convencional para a produção agroecológica de alimentos. Para embasar este trabalho, os princípios de planejamento e a Teoria da Decisão foram usados como principais fundamentos científicos. As teorias da Mudança, Cooperativismo e Agroecologia foram aplicadas de modo complementar. O ponto de partida da presente pesquisa foi o seguinte questionamento: qual o fluxo do processo decisório empreendido na transição agroecológica da Cooperativa? O objetivo geral foi caracterizar o processo decisório na mudança de sistema produtivo das propriedades rurais então integrantes da Cooperativa. Em nível específico, foram formulados os objetivos a seguir: ordenar os fatores que influenciaram os cooperados para a mudança, identificar fontes de informações que orientaram o processo decisório empreendido, elencar dificuldades e vantagens encontradas durante a transição agroecológica, descrever percepções dos agricultores sobre implicações da mudança e verificar se o processo de mudança fundamentou-se em teorias do planejamento. Este estudo classifica-se como uma pesquisa exploratória e descritiva, com tratamentos quantitativo (estatística descritiva) e qualitativo (análise de conteúdo) dos dados. Estes são de origem primária, pois foram realizadas entrevistas com todos os cooperados. Por meio dos resultados apresentados, pode-se dizer que a preocupação com a saúde foi o principal fator que influenciou a tomada de decisão. Quanto à fonte de informação, verificou-se como fonte inicial dos agricultores a Empresa de Assistência Técnica e Extensão Rural – EMATER. A maior dificuldade encontrada pelos cooperados foi a aprendizagem de novas técnicas de manejo do solo. Em termos de vantagem, a mais relevante foi a preservação da saúde. Alguns agricultores relataram que falta organização na estrutura gerencial da Cooperativa. Nas percepções individuais os assuntos mais referenciados foram: conhecimento, comunicação e planejamento; resistência e mudança; saúde e renda. O estudo demonstrou que a tomada de decisão não seguiu rigorosamente as fases do processo de planejamento. Contudo, o comprometimento de todos na organização com o processo de gerenciamento da mudança foi essencial para o bom desempenho.This study analyzes the decision process of cooperative participants, occurred on agroecological transition of Leoboqueirense Cooperative of Family Farmers. This Cooperative is in process of changing the production system: from conventional to agroecological food production. To support this work, the principles of planning and Decision Theory were used as the main scientific foundations. Theories of Change, Cooperatives and Agroecology were applied in a complementary manner. The research starting point was the following question: what flow of the decision making process undertook the Cooperative agroecological transition? The main objective was to characterize the decision making process used by members of Cooperative farms in the production system changing. Specifically, the following objectives were formulated: to order factors that influenced the cooperative to change, to identify information sources that guided the decision making process undertook, to list advantages and difficulties encountered during the agroecological transition, describing perceptions of farmers about the implications change and to verify if that the change process was based on planning theories. This study is classified as an exploratory and descriptive research with quantitative (descriptive statistics) and qualitative (content analysis) data treatments. These data has a primary origin, as all interviews were conducted with the Cooperative participants. Through the results, we could say that the concern about health was the main factor that influenced decision making. As to the information source, it was found Enterprise Technical Assistance and Rural Extension - EMATER as the initial source of farmers. The greatest difficulty encountered by the cooperative particiapnts was learning new techniques of soil management. In terms of advantages, the most important was the preservation of health. Some farmers reported that lack organization in the management structure of the Cooperative. Individual perceptions in the most referenced topics were: knowledge, communication and planning; resistance and change, health and income. The study showed that the decision making was not strictly followed the phases of the scientific planning process. However, the involvement of everyone in the organization with the process of change management is essential for good performance.
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Andersson, Joel. "The Cooperative Role Model : A study of the Role Model Effect in rural agricultural cooperatives in Rwanda." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-403172.
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With the highest representation of female parliamentarians in the world, Rwanda is a frequently reoccurring case when studying the impact of increased female representation. In this debate, little attention has been given to symbolic representation and particularly to the concept of the Role Model Effect. To bridge this gap, the purpose is to provide insights to how the Role Model Effect operates in a rural, non-quota context, separated from high politics. Consequently, the thesis seeks to examine how female board members in Rwandan agricultural cooperatives affect the willingness of female members to obtain board positions. The data was collected through a qualitative field study where 44 respondents in three different cooperatives in Rwanda were interviewed. Respondents were chosen through a combination of strategic selection and snowball sampling. The thesis found that the Role Model Effect required two conditions to be fulfilled before it could be manifested: geographical proximity and trust. If these criteria were met, both female board members and female leaders of lower ranks were found to explicitly and implicitly increase the willingness to obtain leading positions among female members, thus altering ruling gender roles.
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Silva, Vilmar da. "O papel do programa de aquisição de alimentos – PAA - para o fortalecimento da agricultura familiar: o caso da Cooperativa da Agricultura Familiar Integrada – COOPAFI - de Capanema, PR." Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, 2013. http://repositorio.utfpr.edu.br/jspui/handle/1/631.
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Em um país onde a agricultura familiar é historicamente tratada como o patinho feio, sendo as políticas públicas geralmente voltadas à agricultura patronal na produção de commodities agrícolas, é criado pelo governo federal, em 2003, o Programa de Aquisição de Alimentos – PAA, o qual tem contido em um dos seus objetivos o “Fortalecimento da Agricultura Familiar”. A partir desta primicia, a indagação sobre a reificação deste objetivo causou o interesse em buscar dados que pudessem contribuir com o entendimento da forma com que o PAA atinge os agricultores familiares, tanto no contexto econômico, quanto no social. Assim, na busca pela resposta de qual é o papel que o Programa tem no fortalecimento da agricultura familiar e considerando que o fortalecimento da agricultura também se dá, conforme vasta bibliografia já produzida, à organização destes agricultores em associações e cooperativas, foi realizado um estudo de caso na Cooperativa da Agricultura Familiar Integrada – Coopafi – de Capanema, sendo esta escolhida por ser fruto da primeira cooperativa de comercialização da agricultura familiar na Região Sudoeste do Paraná, a Cooperfac – Cooperativa da Agricultura Familiar de Capanema. Neste sentido a dissertação discute como emergem as estratégias de comercialização da agricultura familiar nos mercados, tanto institucionais, quanto particulares. O objetivo principal deste trabalho é identificar o papel do PAA para o fortalecimento da agricultura familiar em decorrência do estreitamento das relações entre os agricultores familiares e o mercado institucional. Para tanto, duas hipóteses orientam a pesquisa. A primeira assevera que a ação de Política Pública – PAA – cumpre os objetivos com que foi proposta e tem um peso significativo no fortalecimento da Agricultura Familiar e no desenvolvimento rural sustentável. A segunda hipótese remete ao fato de que os atores envolvidos, agricultores familiares e dirigentes da cooperativa, em todo o processo de comercialização do PAA têm a percepção da importância desta Política Pública na melhoria das condições socioeconômicas dos Agricultores Familiares e da sociedade em que estes estão inseridos. A amplitude destas questões afirmam a escolha da realização de um estudo de caso e a utilização de técnicas de pesquisa quantitativas e qualitativas. Assim, os procedimentos metodológicos relacionam-se a aplicação de um formulário padronizado, entrevista semi-estruturada e observação direta, além da utilização de dados secundários. Em síntese, os resultados da pesquisa confirmam, parcialmente, as hipóteses iniciais. Primeiramente, estes demonstram que o PAA fortalece a agricultura familiar, porém com algumas limitações. Ao mesmo tempo, evidenciam como o processo de comercialização via PAA modificou o modo de produção e de relação do agricultor familiar com o mercado, demontrando a percepção dos agricultores quanto à importância do PAA e do associativismo para o desenvolvimento sustentável.In a country where family farming is historically treated as ‘the ugly duckling’, and public policy generally directed to agriculture employer in the production of agricultural commodities it is created by the Federal Government in 2003, the Food Acquisition Program – FAP (PAA), which has embraced as one of its objectives ‘Strengthening Family Farming’. With this idea in mind, the quest about reification of this objective caused the interest in seeking data that could contribute to the understanding of the way the FAP (PAA) reaches the farmers, both in economic and social context. Thus, searching for an answer about what is the program role on strengthening family farming and considering that the strengthening of agriculture also occurs according to extensive bibliography already produced from the organization of farmers into associations and cooperatives, a case study was conducted at the Family Farming Cooperative Integrated - Coopafi – Capanema, it was chosen for being result of the first marketing cooperative of family farms in the Southwest Region of Paraná, Cooperfac - Family Agriculture Cooperative of Capanema. In this sense the dissertation discusses how marketing strategies of family farming emerge in the markets, both institutional and private. The main objective of this work is to identify the role of FAP (PAA) to strengthen family agriculture due to the strengthening of relations between the farmers and the institutional market. For this reason, two hypotheses guide the research: the first asserts that the action of Public Policy – FAP (PAA) - accomplishes the objectives with what have been proposed and has a significant importance on strengthening family farming and sustainable rural development. The second hypothesis refers to the fact that the actors involved, family farmers and cooperative leaders, in the whole process of marketing the FAP (PAA) are aware of the importance of Public Policy in improving the socioeconomic conditions of Family Farmers and the society in which they are inserted. The extend of these issues asserts the choice of performing a case study and the use of techniques of quantitative and qualitative research. Thus, the methodological procedures relating to the application of a standardized form, semi-structured interview and direct observation, besides the use of secondary data. In summary, the survey results confirm, in part, the initial hypotheses. First, they demonstrate that the FAP (PAA) strengthens family farms, but with some limitations. At the same time, they highlight how the process of commercialization via FAP (PAA) modified the mode of production and the farmer's family relationship with the market, demonstrating the perception of farmers related to the importance of FAP (PAA) and associations for sustainable development.
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Soares, Lidiany dos Santos. "Percepção dos cooperados quanto aos benefícios obtidos através do cooperativismo no sul de Minas Gerais." Universidade Jose do Rosario Vellano, 2013. http://tede2.unifenas.br:8080/jspui/handle/jspui/17.
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Previous issue date: 2013-09-25In any agricultural activity, there is the existence of practices such as planting, creation, production and even industrialization, for the purpose of disposal of products and obtaining profits. The cooperative model presents itself as an organization that promotes social, economic development based on the union of people aimed at meeting the needs of the group, seeking growth set and not individually. The agricultural cooperatives are characterised by services provided to members, with receipt or marketing of joint production, storage and industrialization, as well as technical assistance, educational and social. The study examined the perceptions of members in relation to the benefits obtained through cooperatives and the vision of cooperatives in relation to their performance along to its cooperative members, having as main objective to evaluate the importance of cooperatives in agricultural market to its members through promotion of benefits that justify its existence. The method of investigation used guided by qualitative approach to analysis and interpretation of data collected and as methodological procedure was employed multiple case studies that allowed the survey data that contributed to the research problem raised elucidation. The data were collected through structured questionnaire with closed questions to cooperative members and interviews conducted by the three agricultural cooperatives of southern Minas Gerais. It was found that the satisfaction of cooperative members is strongly related to the fulfillment of demands financial and technical assistance, being considered as significant advantages of cooperative ties. Although cooperatives studied do not always offer the best prices, both in the sale of supplies as in the negotiations of the products deposited, there was the satisfaction of the majority of members, however, with little involvement or interest in decisions of cooperatives. The results revealed that although cooperatives are ease of access, unaware of the perception of their members in relation to the benefits and little participation are encouraged through cooperative courses and on the decisions taken in meetings.
Em qualquer atividade agropecuária, verifica-se a existência de práticas como o plantio, criação, produção e até mesmo industrialização, com a finalidade de escoamento dos produtos e obtenção de lucros. O modelo cooperativista apresenta-se como uma organização que promove desenvolvimento econômico social, fundamentado na união de pessoas que visam à satisfação das necessidades do grupo, buscando crescimento conjunto e não individual. As cooperativas agropecuárias caracterizam-se pelos serviços prestados aos associados, com recebimento ou comercialização da produção conjunta, armazenamento e industrialização, além da assistência técnica, educacional e social. O estudo analisou a percepção dos cooperados em relação aos benefícios obtidos através das cooperativas e, ainda, a visão das cooperativas em relação à sua atuação junto aos seus cooperados, tendo como objetivo principal avaliar a importância das cooperativas no mercado agrícola para seus associados, através da promoção de benefícios que justifiquem sua existência. O método de investigação utilizado orientou-se pela abordagem qualitativa para análise e interpretação dos dados coletados, e como procedimento metodológico foi empregado o estudo de casos múltiplos que permitiu o levantamento de dados que contribuíram para elucidação do problema de pesquisa levantado. A coleta de dados foi realizada através de questionário estruturado com questões fechadas aos cooperados e entrevista realizada junto a três cooperativas agropecuárias do Sul de Minas. Verificou-se que a satisfação dos cooperados está fortemente relacionada com o atendimento das demandas financeiras e de assistência técnica, sendo considerados como vantagens significativas do vínculo cooperativista. Apesar de as cooperativas estudadas nem sempre oferecerem os melhores preços, tanto na venda de insumos como nas negociações dos produtos depositados, constatou-se a satisfação da maioria dos cooperados, porém, com pouca participação ou interesse nas decisões das cooperativas. Os resultados revelaram ainda que as cooperativas, embora manifestem facilidade de acesso, desconhecem a percepção de seus cooperados em relação aos benefícios oferecidos, pouco incentivam a participação através de cursos cooperativistas e ainda nas decisões tomadas em assembleias.
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Schroder, Monica. "Finanças, comunidades e inovações : organizações financeiras da agricultura familiar - o Sistema Cresol (1995-2003)." [s.n.], 2005. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/285556.
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Resumo: Governos, agências de cooperação internacional, organizações não-governamentais, associações, cooperativas e instituições financeiras vêm reconhecendo, especialmente a partir dos anos 1990, a importância do microcrédito e das microfinanças para atender as demandas financeiras das populações mais pobres, que não têm acesso ao sistema financeiro ou acessam-no com dificuldades. São novas modalidades de operacionalização dos produtos financeiros, que facilitam o acesso a contas corrente e de poupança, seguros e créditos de pequeno montante e que utilizam a maior proximidade social com a clientela para avaliar o risco e as garantia do crédito concedido. Organizações financeiras adaptadas vêm atendendo também as demandas financeiras dos agricultores familiares, em diversos países. No Brasil, o Sistema de Cooperativas de Crédito Rural com Interação Solidária ¿ o Sistema Cresol, na região Sul, formado por pequenas cooperativas, atende exclusivamente esse público. Constituído no biênio 1995/1996, o Cresol apresenta importantes resultados: tem ampliado e universalizado o atendimento financeiro, reduzido os custos de transação dos financiamentos, consolidado laços com o espaço local e com os agentes que nele atuam e assegurado sua sustentabilidade institucional e financeira. Para responder por que as organizações financeiras da agricultura familiar, como o Sistema Cresol, conseguem ampliar o acesso desses agricultores aos benefícios da política de financiamento rural e ao sistema financeiro, alcançando segmentos sociais que, tradicionalmente, o sistema bancário não prioriza ou tem dificuldades para atender, elaborou-se esta tese. Sua hipótese é que as organizações financeiras da agricultura familiar produzem, em relação às práticas tradicionais do sistema bancário, inovações em diferentes dimensões para a oferta de crédito e de outros serviços financeiros; a capacidade de inovar é função dos elementos do arranjo institucional em que a atuação das organizações está fundamentada. O objetivo é analisar os elementos do arranjo institucional que sustenta o Sistema Cresol, os atributos que tornam tal arranjo inovador, conferindo-lhe eficiência na coordenação de determinada transação, e o papel das inovações para a própria permanência da organização financeira. A análise se fundamenta, desse modo, nos fatores econômicos e não-econômicos da trajetória e dinâmica do Sistema Cresol. Conclui-se que a flexibilidade que as cooperativas têm para se adequarem à realidade das comunidades em que atuam, que facilita a assimilação ao arranjo institucional da complexa trama social local, e os instrumentos de gestão contábil-financeira e de controle social, que facilitam o processo de aprendizagem acerca da organização, são os elementos que diferenciam o arranjo institucional do Sistema Cresol, favorecem as inovações e atribuem maior consistência às variáveis econômico-financeiras. A identidade institucional baseia-se, portanto, em vínculos concretos entre duas realidades, a das organizações financeiras e a dos agricultores familiares, havendo, por isso, uma proximidade social entre a atuação das cooperativas e as demandas financeiras dos agricultores e, também, a adequação dessas demandas à racionalidade econômica que caracteriza o empreendimento cooperativo
Abstract: Governments, international cooperation agencies, no-government organizations (NGO¿s), associations, cooperatives and financial institutions are recognizing, especially from the 1990¿s, the importance of the microcredit and of the microfinance among the poorest populations that either don't have access to financial system or have difficulties in doing it. There are new services modalities of the financial products in that the proximity with the clientele is important to evaluate the risk and the guaranteed of credit and facilitate the access of the checking account, saving, safe and small credit. In several countries financial organizations are also assisting the family farmers' financial demands. In Brazil, the System of Rural Credit Cooperatives with Solidary Interaction - the Cresol System, in Southern area, was created to serving family farmers organized in small cooperatives. Created in 1995/1996 biennium, Cresol System has presents remarkable results: it has been enlarging and universalized the financial service; reduced the financings transaction costs; consolidated the links between the local space and agents; and strengthen the institutional and financial sustainability. In order to contribute to the understanding of this issue, this thesis set out to answers why the family farms financial organizations, as the Cresol System, gets to enlarge the access of farmers to the benefits of the rural financing where traditionally the bank system doesn't prioritize or assist. The hypothesis is that the family farmers¿ financial organizations have been innovative in many dimensions of the credit line and other financial services; the innovate capacity is due to the elements of the institutional arrangement in that the performance of the organizations is based. The main objective is analyze the elements of such institutional arrangement that sustains the Cresol System; the attributes that turn such arrangement innovative in improving the performance of the specific transaction coordination; and the role of the innovations in preserve the permanence of the own financial organization. The analysis is based on the economical and no-economical factors of the trajectory and dynamics of the Cresol System. The results of such investigation point out that, firstly, the cooperatives flexibility to adapt to such communities' reality (poor and small farmer family), that facilitates the assimilation to the institutional arrangement, and secondly, the instruments of the account-financial management and social control, that facilitate the organization learning process area. Both elements that differentiate the Cresol System's institutional arrangement favor the innovations and attribute better consistence to the economical-financial elements. The institutional identity is based on concrete links between two realities: the one of the financial organizations and the other of the family farmers. It results in a social proximity between the cooperatives performance, the farmers' financial demands and the demands adaptation to the economical rationality that characterizes the cooperative enterprise
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Politica Economica
Doutor em Ciências Econômicas
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Li, Hong Sheng. "A study into Chinese agriculture cooperative movement." Thesis, University of Macau, 1995. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b1636749.
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