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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Боронос, Вікторія Георгіївна, Виктория Георгиевна Боронос, Viktoriia Heorhiivna Boronos, and С. М. Солодовніков. "Кооперування підприємств та домогосподарств в АПК, як метод забезпечення галузі фінансовими ресурсами." Thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2013. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/32863.
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Проблема підвищення ефективності функціонування в сфері АПК пов’язана з низьким рівнем концентрації коштів у галузі. Україна на сьогоднішній день втратила свої позиції на світовому просторі в сфері сільського господарства. В наслідок використання застарілої техніки та недосконалих методів управління сільськогосподарськими підприємствами, через брак фінансових ресурсів у галузі, одним із найкращих варіантів по залученню коштів у галузь є кооперування підприємств.
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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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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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Banda, Abedanigo Christopher Kwenje. "Interactions between capital and recurrent budgets in the Zambian Ministry of Agriculture and Water Development." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/24471.
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The aim of this study has been to explain the relationship between capital (development) expenditures and the growth of recurrent expenditures in the Zambian Ministry of Agriculture and Water Development (1975-1983). Three models were developed and tested.
The first model tested the theory of incrementalism. Proponents of incrementalism advocate that the recurrent budget in a previous period is the most important explanatory variable in the determination of recurrent budget expenditures in the subsequent period. An extension on the first model included capital expenditures in the determination of recurrent budget expenditures. Theories have been advanced that capital expenditures cannot be undertaken without affecting the growth of recurrent expenditures. A third explanatory model included the stock of capital, the recurrent budget in the previous period, the rate of inflation, and the lagged price of copper as important variables in the determination of recurrent budget expenditures.
Ordinary least squares (0LS) estimation techniques were used to obtain the coefficients and the magnitude of the variables in these three models. The third model explained 98% of the variation in recurrent budget expenditures. The results showed that the recurrent budget in the previous period and the rate of inflation were the most important explanatory variables
in the determination of the recurrent budgets in Zambia. The price of copper and the stock of capital, although both having a positive relationship with the recurrent budget in the subsequent period, were weak determinants. The study noted that the weak relationship between the capital and recurrent budget may be due to the ad hoc transference of recurrent costs, created by capital projects, to the recurrent budget. The study suggests a policy for the transference of these costs to the recurrent budget.Land and Food Systems, Faculty of
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Franzke, Jochen. "Managing sectoral transition : the case of Slovak agricultural administration." Universität Potsdam, 2005. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2005/594/.
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Agricultural policy in the transition states of Central Eastern Europe is a very complex issue
– ranging from privatisation of farm land, the establishment of agricultural markets to detailed
questions of veterinary care, plant health and animal nutrition. Its main elements are the introduction
of market liberalization, farm restructuring, privatisation, the reform of the sector and
the creation of supporting market institutions and services.1 In this process central state agriculture
administration plays a decisive role.This paper is summing up the research of the author on Slovak agricultural administration between 2002 and 2004. This work was part of a DFG-funded research project on “Genesis, Organization and Efficiency of the central-state Ministerial Administration in Central and Eastern Europe”. The project was analysing the processes, results and efficiency of administrative structures at central-state level in Estonia, Poland and Slovakia with reference to public administration in the policy fields of agriculture and telecommunications. The paper is reflecting the situation in the sector and its administration at the beginning of 2004.
At first, an overview of the role of the agricultural sector in Slovak economy in the past and presence is provided (section I). Against this background, the development of the agricultural policy in the different periods since 1989 will be analysed, mainly what privatisation, accession to the EU and subsidy policy are concerned (section II). A detailed study of the developments in agricultural administration forms the next part of the paper (section III), i.e. the changes taking place in the ministry of agriculture and in the other institutions responsible for the implementation of agricultural policy. The role of interest groups in agriculture is briefly analysed (section IV). In the conclusions two different scenarios on the further development of Slovak agricultural administration will be deployed.
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Lukášová, Veronika. "Vzdělávání zaměstnanců a komunikace na Ministerstvu financí a Ministerstvu zemědělství." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-125156.
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The diploma thesis deals with education and communication of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic. The goal of this diploma thesis is to compare how both ministries educate their employees and how they communicate. The thesis will show if or what are the differences between the ministries in given areas. In the part that deals with the communication of the ministries attention will be paid to both, communication with the media and with the public. In the theoretical part methods and ways of education of employees that are used and theoretical bases will be generally given. In this part the thesis will also focus on regulations which the education of state employees should follow. In the practical part the expert interview method will be used to describe the system of education in both offices. In the area of communication the way, in which the ministries communicate with the media and with the public will be outlined and on the basis of media outputs in a certain interval a hypothesis that media are more interested in the Ministry of Finance topics will be verified. The thesis will compare both ministries in this way and make possible recommendations.
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Chanphengxay, Souphatta. "The Assessment of Gender Mainstreaming: A Case Study of the Division for the Advancement of Women, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry in Lao PDR." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18496.
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Gender mainstreaming to promote gender equality and include persons with disabilities is important because it can bring a huge impact to the organization and the country. It is not easy to accomplish gender equality as long as there are barriers against women's participation in all spheres. As a result, achieving gender equality is a challenge for not only developed countries but also developing countries. This thesis evaluates the implementation of gender mainstreaming to promote gender equality and the inclusion of persons with disabilities of the Division for the Advancement of Women in Lao PDR. This thesis discovers the perception of gender equality, the barriers that prevent women from achieving gender equality, and the impact of gender equality and lastly examines whether the inclusive approach to include persons with disabilities is implemented in the ministerial organization.
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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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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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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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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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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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Vojtěchová, Barbora. "Marketingové aktivity Ministerstva zemědělství za účelem podpory tuzemských potravin a jejich dopady." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-203956.
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Due to the liberalization of the international trade, there is an increase in food imports to the Czech Republic. However, many producers are not able to face this competition and are forced to end up their business. This leads to the decrease in the production of agricultural commodities and foodstuffs which also reduces the food self-sufficiency of the Czech Republic. Therefore the Ministry of Agriculture (MA) runs activities in order to promote domestic food and the competition "Regionální potravina" is one of those activities. The related campaigns are aimed at both the producers and consumers. The aims of this thesis are to find out how producers perceive the competition Regionální potravina and activities of the MA and whether producers observe that competition and activities of MA have some positive effects. Another aim is to find out whether consumers know the competition Regionální potravina and activities of MA, whether they buy this food and whether they prefer to buy Czech food. The theoretical part concerns especially marketing and legislation related to the promotion of domestic food. The practical part is based on a survey among producers and consumers. Based on the results of this survey, the recommendations for the Ministry of Agriculture are set out.
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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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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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Debar, Anne. "Les transformations de l'État territorial (2007-2010), saisies par l'analyse de l'activité des directeurs départementaux en matière de gestion des personnels." Phd thesis, Université Paris-Est, 2011. http://pastel.archives-ouvertes.fr/pastel-00836500.
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Le processus de modernisation des services territoriaux de l'État, et tout particulièrement son volet managérial, s'inscrit dans une histoire déjà ancienne, même si la dynamique et les modalités du changement varient selon les départements ministériels. Dans ces histoires, la période 2003-2007, avec l'introduction d'une approche budgétaire différente (la LOLF), d'une recomposition des services départementaux de l'État (la RéaTE), et d'une rénovation des modalités de gestion des emplois et des compétences, constitue un tournant qui peut être compris comme la diffusion des principes du new public management. La thèse repose sur une analyse du travail des directeurs départementaux des ministères évoqués dans la réorganisation dans ce contexte de modernisation tout particulièrement autour du volet RH. Cette analyse est préparée par une présentation des histoires différenciées de la réforme dans les ministères de l'équipement, de l'agriculture et de l'inspection du travail, et une présentation de la perception de ces transformations par les agents. Ces deux aspects constituent en effet les contraintes essentielles de l'activité de conduite du changement. Ils permettent de montrer que la fonction " ressources humaines " joue un rôle central dans les transformations propres à chaque ministère. Étudier le travail de ces cadres, restituer leurs secrets de fabrique, c'est à la fois éclairer l'activité de cadres dirigeants dans une administration, qui se trouve mise à découvert par le changement durant cette période, et mettre en évidence les enjeux de ce moment de la réforme. L'analyse des marges de manœuvre qui leur permettent de conduire le changement, révèle aussi combien se concentrent sur eux les tensions générées par les contradictions d'une réforme tous azimuts. La manière dont ils expriment leur inquiétude pose la question des risques d'un affaiblissement trop important de ces acteurs, seuls en mesure de mettre en cohérence des missions, des hommes et leurs compétences, et une organisation du travail
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Blin, Alexia. "Politiser l'entreprise : une histoire des coopératives dans le Wisconsin (années 1870-années 1930)." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017EHES0131.
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Cette thèse explore l’histoire des entreprises coopératives dans l’État du Wisconsin entre les années 1870 et les années 1930 et les manières dont différents groupes d’acteurs les ont mobilisées afin de défendre leurs intérêts. En croisant les questionnements de l’histoire des entreprises et ceux de l’histoire politique, elle étudie le recours aux coopératives à travers trois grands moments de réforme dans l’histoire des États-Unis – les luttes antimonopolistes du Gilded Age, le progressisme et le New Deal. Ce travail montre que les coopératives font partie de l’horizon réformateur américain de manière continue dans ces décennies. Bien que les coopérateurs ne parviennent pas à construire un « mouvement », ou un « système » économique qui permettrait de servir d’alternative au capitalisme industriel dominé par les grandes entreprises, ils dessinent avec succès les contours d’une forme d’entreprise différente, plus démocratique et dont le modèle est relativement bien identifié à la fin des années 1930. Afin de comprendre les mécanismes d’institutionnalisation de cette forme d’entreprise, on observe les différentes manières dont elle est mobilisée et appropriée au cours du temps – en premier lieu par les fermiers, mais également par les consommateurs, et dans une moindre mesure par les ouvriers. Le rôle de l’État, dont les agents sollicitent les coopératives et en font des outils de politique publique, fait également l’objet d’une attention particulière. L’analyse de ces mobilisations est constamment replacée dans l’environnement au sein duquel les coopérateurs évoluent : en mesurant l’écart qui distingue les coopératives des formes d’organisation économique contre lesquelles elles se forment, celles qui leur servent de référence, ou celles avec lesquelles elles sont en concurrence. Penser les coopératives dans leur environnement signifie également interroger l’importance des territoires dans lesquelles elles s’inscrivent, et en particulier la spécificité des zones rurales, lieu privilégié du développement des coopératives américaines à cette périodeThis dissertation explores the history of cooperative businesses in the state of Wisconsin between the 1870s and the 1930s, and the ways various groups resorted to those organizations in order to protect their interests. My study involves both business history and political history, and looks at the uses of cooperatives through three important reform movements in US history: the antimonopolist struggles of the Gilded Age, the Progressive era and the New Deal. I show that cooperatives were continuously part of the American reform horizon in those decades. Although cooperators did not succeed in creating a “movement” or an economic “system” that would serve as an alternative for an industrial capitalism dominated by big corporations, they were able to build a specific and more democratic form of business enterprise, whose model was easy to identify at the end of the 1930s. In order to understand the mechanisms that led to the institutionalization of this form of business, I observe the various ways farmers, consumers, and, to a lesser extent, workers used and understood cooperatives over time. The role of the state, whose agents called upon cooperatives and turned them into public policy tools, is also a subject of inquiry. The analysis of the uses of the cooperative form of business is constantly replaced in the environment in which their members operated, especially by measuring the distance that separated them from the economic organizations against which they were formed, those that were their models, or those against which they competed. Understanding cooperatives in their environment also means questioning the importance of the territories where they were created, and more specifically the characteristics of rural areas, where cooperatives were especially successful
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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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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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Svobodová, Eva. "Efektivita státní podpory v zemědělství se zaměřením na značky kvality." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-202008.
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The goal of master thesis is evaluation of efficiency of state aid in the agriculture focusing on food quality marks. At the beginning of the work are described state institutions supporting Czech producers and their products. Evaluation of efficiency is made based on telephone interview with producers and quantitative research among consumers. Telephone interview is conducted with producers who can use a logo Regionalni potravina on their foodstuff. The aim of this research is to find out, if the producers achieved positive results in their sales after obtaining food quality mark. Quantitative research is made among consumers, where the key question is what awareness consumers have about food quality marks, what is the key factor in buying decision and if consumers noticed promotional campaigns of the Ministry of Agriculture focusing on aid of Czech producers with food quality marks. After making research it will be easier to say if state aid is effective or if there are spotted flaws or what.
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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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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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Aleksandar, Savić. "Društveno ekonomski razvoj i promene u Užičkom orkugu od 1947. do 1963. godine." Phd thesis, Univerzitet u Novom Sadu, Filozofski fakultet u Novom Sadu, 2014. https://www.cris.uns.ac.rs/record.jsf?recordId=83763&source=NDLTD&language=en.
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Osnovni zadatak ove doktorske disertacije jeste da sagleda društveno–ekonomski, prosvetni, kulturni i demografski razvoj Užičkog okruga od 1947. god 1963. godine. U disertaciji je prikazan razvoj najznačajnijih privrednih organiazcija Užičkog orkuga (kasnije Sreza Titovo Užice) koje su podstakle promene u svim sverama društvenog života ovog kraja. Industrijalizacije je inicirala preseljenje stanovnižtva sa sela u industrijske centre. Da bi se obezbedio život novih stanovnika gradova gradili su se infrastrukturni objekti, stanovi, škole, vrtide, domovi zdravlja, bolnice, ustanove za sovijalno staranje i kulturne ustavnove. I pored svih društveno – političkih protivurečnosti koje su obeležile ovo doba, može se konstatovati da je užički kraj ostvario vidan ekonomski i kulturni razvoj.The main task of this doctoral dissertation is toexamine the socio-economic, educational, culturaland demographic development of the District ofUzice from 1947 to 1963. The dissertation presentsthe development of the most important businessorganizations of District of Uzice ( later the Countyof Titovo Uzice) that have encouraged changes in allspheres of social life in this region. Industrializationhas initiated migration of population from rural toindustrial centers. In order to maintain a certainquality of life for the new city inhabitants the newinfrastructure objects, housing, schools,kindergartens, healthcare centres and hospitals,social welfare and cultural institutions were built.Despite all the socio - political controversies thathave marked this period, it can be concluded thatthe region of Uzice made a significant economic andcultural development in that period.
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Moudrá, Erika. "Založení Marketingového fondu v ČR k podpoře zemědělského a potravinářského sektoru." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-261781.
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The thesis deals in its theoretical part of the Czech food market - their promotions and opportunities for improvement in the context of establishing the Marketing fund with the insipration taken from the Austrian and German models. It shows some of the proven mechanisms of applied Wine Fund of the Czech Republic. A separate chapter is devoted to the Federation of the Food and Drink Industries of the Czech Republic, which its 20 years of history inseparable part of the food market and one of the main promoters of establishing a Marketing fund in the Czech Republic. Other chapters are devoted to the Austrian model of Marketing fund (Agramarkt austriacus AMA) which works flawlessly since Austria's entry to the European Union and analysis of implementation of the Fund in the Czech environment.
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MAFFI, LUCIANO. "Territorio e vitivinicoltura nell'Oltrepò Pavese: dall'indagine geostorica alle sfide attuali della geoeconomia." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/383.
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La ricerca analizza l’evoluzione della vitivinicoltura nell’Oltrepò Pavese quale elemento caratterizzante il paesaggio di questo territorio. Tale settore produttivo risulta essere una delle principali attività svolte nell’area in esame e ne caratterizza l’economia, il paesaggio collinare, le tradizioni e le forme identitarie, specialmente nellla zona centro-orientale, ossia nei territori che gravitano sui centri urbani di Casteggio, Broni e Stradella.
Il lavoro si propone di approfondire anzitutto la valorizzazione della tipicità e del locale, riassunti e rappresentati nel termine terroir, che indica l’insieme degli elementi geomorfologici, climatici, antropici e culturali che rendono unico un prodotto (in questo caso il vino), mettendo così il locale al centro di un’analisi che si può estendere poi a riflessioni di ordine generale.
L’indagine geografica ha studiato gli aspetti ambientali e quelli antropici, nonché le loro relazioni. Si è fatto riferimento ai fattori geologici, pedologici e climatici, che altresì sono gli elementi imprescindibili degli studi di «zonazione» che si occupano proprio dell’interazione tra viticoltura e ambiente.
L’indagine geostorica-territoriale si è rivolta soprattutto ai seguenti temi: il paesaggio vitivinicolo; i tipi di vitigni impiantati e i relativi sistemi di coltivazione; le produzioni e la commercializzazione del prodotto; la rappresentazione delle proprietà e del territorio attraverso i catasti.
Inoltre si approfondiscono i temi geoeconomici sia a scala globale sia a scala locale, grazie alla rielaborazione delle informazioni relative al settore produttivo. Il contesto locale pertanto è confrontato con quello regionale, nazionale e globale, al fine di comprenderne i legami, soprattutto in relazione alle attuali sfide geoeconomiche.In this thesis we analyse the evolution of grape growing and wine making as two of the elements which have contributed to the shaping of the landscape in the Oltrepò Pavese and represent two of the main economic activities of this geographic area, with is often identified with them – particularly in the mid-western part, i.e., the areas around the towns of Casteggio, Broni and Stradella. My main goal is to investigate the ways in which the values of locality and typicity – represented by the term terroir – are promoted. “Terroir” stands for, and comprises, a number of elements such as geo-morphological and climatic features, as well as human and cultural factors, all of which contribute to the uniqueness of a product like wine. My research thus starts from, and gives prominence to, the local level, in order to formulate a set of observations from which more general conclusions may then be drawn. The geographical investigation focusses on the environmental and human factors as well as their interrelationships. In its course, we refer to factors such as geology, pedology and climate, the crucial elements of all studies of «zoning», which describe precisely the complex interaction between grape growing and the environment. The geo-historical analysis concentrates especially on thematic areas such as the landscape; the varieties of grape that are planted and the respective growing techniques; the production and marketing of the produce; the ways in which property boundaries and the territory have been represented in land registries. The geo-economic factors, at both the local and global levels, are investigated through the analysis of the data from the production sector. The local context is thus compared to the regional, national and global ones in order to better understand the nature of their interactions and provide useful insights in relation to the challenges posed by the current geo-economic scenarios.
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Tongnoy, Srayut, and 立威廉. "Applying AHP Method to Evaluate the Official Websites‟ Qualities of Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives in Thailand." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/87403308282468445579.
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The Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives (MOAC) of Thailand has used internet as one of the means to disseminate its services to the general public. Since the websites act as an important means of communication platform for the face of government, governmental websites must be reliable and effective. Therefore, the MOAC web services are expected to be efficient, accurate and heuristic. The objective of this study is to evaluate the website quality factors within the official websites of MOAC by applying an analytic hierarchy process (AHP) approach. The website quality factors included information quality, system quality, service quality, and heuristic. These four factors are applied to construct the AHP hierarchy and evaluate the websites. The four most important websites within MOAC government agencies were selected to evaluate by AHP. The result is helpful to understand which factor is the most important to evaluate the government‟s websites and highlights a new way to design a high quality website.
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Waehama, Wanamina. "Critical Factors Influencing ICT Adoption within a Thailand Government Department." Thesis, 2017. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/41842/.
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An increasing need for service efficiency has influenced the need for the adoption of e- government across all governmental departments and agencies. However, in many developing countries such initiatives face numerous challenges, which slowed their implementation down or reduced their effectiveness. This study assessed factors influencing the adoption of the Government Fiscal Management Information System (GFMIS), a Thai e-government initiative, by the employees of the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives (MOAC). Identification of such inhibitory factors may be used to reduce their influence on use of the GFMIS in the MOAC, and more generally, be used to improve performance of similar existing Thai e-government initiatives and improve adoption of future ones.
An extended model was devised based on the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) devised by Ventakesh et al. 2003. This model was empirically tested using structural equation modelling (SEM) analysis with responses from a usable sample size of 315 (after deleting univariate and multivariate outliers, and excluding incomplete responses). SEM analysis on the Extended UTAUT model showed a poor fit. A modified version of the original UTAUT, the Adapted Original UTAUT, was tested in the same way and found to have a good fit.
Path analysis of the Adapted Original UTAUT model showed a number of differences from the Original UTAUT model it was modified from. The Effort Expectancy construct had no significant effects on either Intention to Use Future Technologies or Use Behaviour. Since the effects of this construct are widely reported to decrease with experience of the system, this may indicate that the employees have become used to the GFMIS since its introduction in 2007. The Facilitating Conditions and Performance Expectancy constructs had significant positive influences on both Intention to Use Future Technologies and Use Behaviour. Oddly, the Social Influence construct had a significant positive effect on Intention to Use New Technologies while having a significant negative effect on Use Behaviour. This, combined with the lack of a significant relationship between the Intention to Use Future Technologies and the Use Behaviour constructs, suggests that there may be a gap between what employees of the MOAC say about the GFMIS and how they make use of it.
Non-parametric tests showed Age, Gender and Education Level of respondents moderated the effects of the Social Influence construct. Similar tests showed that Age and Education Level of respondents moderated the effects of the Facilitating Conditions construct (which has a significant positive effect on both Intention to Use Future Technologies and Use Behaviour). None of the demographic factors moderated the effects of the Performance Expectancy construct, suggesting that the benefits of using the GFMIS are accepted by all employees.
Regardless of the details learned about hesitancy in future research; workshops and training sessions to ameliorate problems are in order immediately. Educational aids need to be of high quality and continuous, which will enhance the integration of GFMIS into Thailand’s e- government system.
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Albarrán, Francisco Rafael Vázquez, and 白法信. "Agriculture in Extremadura (Spain), Cooperatives and Olive Oil." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/g2z8qp.
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Glaser, Lewrene Kay. "Diversification and some resulting policy issues in local Wisconsin farm supply cooperatives." 1985. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/12309727.html.
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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1985.Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 176-179).
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Cheng, Mei Yen, and 鄭媚尹. "A Study of Operational Efficiency of Agriculture Cooperatives- Application of Data Envelopment Analysis." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/27929839058257003186.
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Based upon common needs and will of collaboration, the farmers adopt principle of equality on the foundation of mutual help union to organize a group, agriculture cooperative, which applies cooperation management method to overcome the difficulties of agriculture management, reduce the cost of production, elevate the efficiency of management, and augment competitive strength. This thesis aims to analyze the agriculture cooperatives’ management efficiency in Taiwan district. It adopts Farrell’s efficiency conception as the foundation, and makes use of Fuzzy Delphi Method (FDM) to obtain the input and output elements of agriculture cooperatives. There are four input elements: numbers of contract persons, assets, profession expenditure, and management costs; and two outputs, numbers of members in cooperative and profession income. Through the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), it establishes efficiency boundary function to gain management efficiency of each agriculture cooperative. To all agriculture cooperatives, among 104 DMUs, there are 14 cooperatives reach 1 in management efficiency rate. In addition, since every kind of cooperative’s managing chief part and model is not really similar to one another, to be in conformity with the experience rules submitted by Golany and Roll in 1989, this research further analyzes the management efficiency of fruit-and-vegetable kind and fowl kind agriculture cooperatives. Among all fruit-and-vegetable kind cooperatives, there are 10 of them reach 1 in management efficiency rate, and 12 in fowl kind ones. Eventually, by using Analytic hierarchy Process (AHP) to further distinguish agriculture cooperatives with efficient management, it appraises the best practice models. Among all agriculture cooperatives, the Shi-Luo Pig Breeding Production Cooperative in Yunlin County is the top cooperative with management efficiency. The Shinn-Yi Fruit-and-vegetable Cooperative in Nantou County is the best model among all fruit-and-vegetable kind cooperatives, and the Shi-Luo Pig Breeding Production Cooperative in Yunlin County is the best one among all fowl kind cooperatives.