Agricultural cooperatives and the transition to environmentally sustainable food systems

Bijman, Jos; Höhler, Julia

doi:10.4337/9781802202618.00031

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“…Fałkowski and Ciaian (2016) indicated that part of the reasons that member homogeneity plays an important role in successful collective actions are higher level of credibility, trust and less of the free‐rider problem within more homogeneous groups. Similarly, Bijman (2016) pointed to the problems of more difficult coordination and higher influence costs associated with less homogeneous groups.…”

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Group heterogeneity and the economic effect of farmer organisation participation: Empirical evidence from Taiwan

Tsai

Luh

2022

J Agricultural Economics

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We explore the effects of different farmer organisations on smallholder farmers' economic performance. The average treatment effect of switching between different farmer organisations is examined. In addition, based on the premise that a higher level of social capital is accumulated through participation in multiple farmer organisations, we also investigate how the economic consequences of farmer organisation membership vary with the intensity of participation. Our conceptual model explicitly includes social capital to provide a micro-foundation and a theoretical justification for the linkage between farmer organisation participation and the economic outcome. This indicates that participating in different types of farmer organisations is beneficial for farm households only when the returns from social capital investment outweigh the time cost of participation. Our empirical results suggest that membership of farmer organisations that are more homogeneous in terms of member specialty and similarity in production and marketing activities results in a significant increase in farm sales revenue and net returns. This result supports the view that technological proximity accentuates knowledge spillovers within the farmer organisations, and thus leads to better economic outcomes. In line with the prediction of the theoretical model, the average treatment effect of participation is found to increase with the number of organisations that farmers belong to. Moreover, results from the quantile regression provide empirical evidence supporting increasing returns to social capital accumulated through participation in several farmer organisations.

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Group heterogeneity and the economic effect of farmer organisation participation: Empirical evidence from Taiwan

Tsai

Luh

2022

J Agricultural Economics

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“…The relationship between cooperative businesses and environment-friendly production is under debate [ 10 , 12 , 14 ]. Different studies point in different directions.…”

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“…Such organizations have the task of safeguarding the collective and long-term interests of a group of individuals by uniting their individual and short-term interests. Cooperatives have proven themselves to be well suited to protect farmers' interests in many agricultural industries and countries [ [7] , [8] , [9] , [10] ]. Thus, cooperatives may, at least to some extent, promote farmers’ adoption of environment-friendly practices [ 11 ].…”

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Cooperative membership and farmers’ environment-friendly practices: Evidence from Fujian, China

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Nilsson,

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“…This type of structure shifts the mindset of the members away from a profit maximisation approach and towards more modest strategies to cater for its members’ needs. Another problem which may emerge is the growing diversity of its members which leads to decision‐making issues (Bijman, 2016; Iliopoulos, 2014) and can also be an obstacle to more ambitious strategies (Van den Heuvel et al., 2011).…”

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Cross‐border cooperation: A response to the challenges facing agri‐food cooperatives in Southern European countries

Martí

Meira

Martínez

et al. 2023

Ann Public Coop Econ

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All agri‐food cooperatives share common interests, irrespective of their geographical borders, which should encourage them to undertake inter‐cooperation processes as well as to set up transnational cooperatives. This paper has two objectives. The first is to analyze Spanish and Portuguese cooperative regulations and the Statute for a European Cooperative Society to define how to embark on these processes in the two countries while also pinpointing the conflicts that may arise from the different regulations. Secondly, it seeks to ascertain which Spanish and Portuguese cooperatives have had experience in this field and to characterize them through a multiple‐case study, including the rationale for the processes, the advantages and the constraints. The results have revealed five cross‐border cooperation categories and show that the Statute for a European Cooperative Society has not had the expected success at the EU level, due to its complexity. However, in general, the lack of expected cross‐border cooperative experiences is not due to legal, language or management issues. It is for different reasons. Firstly, cooperatives think that they can achieve the same objectives through inter‐cooperative agreements. Secondly, government policies protect the regional nature of their cooperatives, rather than encouraging them to expand their business and therefore their capacity to respond to current challenges.

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Agricultural cooperatives and the transition to environmentally sustainable food systems

Cited by 6 publications

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Group heterogeneity and the economic effect of farmer organisation participation: Empirical evidence from Taiwan

Group heterogeneity and the economic effect of farmer organisation participation: Empirical evidence from Taiwan

Cooperative membership and farmers’ environment-friendly practices: Evidence from Fujian, China

Cross‐border cooperation: A response to the challenges facing agri‐food cooperatives in Southern European countries

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