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Agricultural Cooperatives in Transition Countries - Couverture souple

Lerman, Zvi; Sedik, David; Csaki, Csaba

 
9783330015685: Agricultural Cooperatives in Transition Countries
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3330015683 ISBN 13 : 9783330015685
Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

The farming structure in transition countries has shifted from dominance of large corporate farms to family smallholdings. Smallholders everywhere experience difficulties with access to market services, including sale of products, purchase of inputs, and acquisition of machinery; they suffer from credit shortages and have limited access to information and advisory services. The barriers to market access prevent smallholders from fully exploiting their inherent productivity advantages. Best-practice world experience highlights farmers’ service cooperatives, created by grassroots users, as the most effective way of improving the market access of small farmers. Service cooperatives also help smallholders overcome market failures, when private business entrepreneurs are unwilling to provide services in areas that they judge unprofitable or unfairly exploit users through monopolistic practices. These difficulties and market failures are prominent in transition countries and scholars accordingly expected rapid development of agricultural service cooperatives in response to smallholder needs. The present volume explores the gaps between expectations and reality.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The farming structure in transition countries has shifted from dominance of large corporate farms to family smallholdings. Smallholders everywhere experience difficulties with access to market services, including sale of products, purchase of inputs, and acquisition of machinery; they suffer from credit shortages and have limited access to information and advisory services. The barriers to market access prevent smallholders from fully exploiting their inherent productivity advantages. Best-practice world experience highlights farmers’ service cooperatives, created by grassroots users, as the most effective way of improving the market access of small farmers. Service cooperatives also help smallholders overcome market failures, when private business entrepreneurs are unwilling to provide services in areas that they judge unprofitable or unfairly exploit users through monopolistic practices. These difficulties and market failures are prominent in transition countries and scholars accordingly expected rapid development of agricultural service cooperatives in response to smallholder needs. The present volume explores the gaps between expectations and reality.

Biographie de l'auteur

Zvi Lerman is Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Since 1991 his research has focused on land reform and farm restructuring in transition economies, including agricultural cooperatives in former socialist countries. His research findings have been widely published in journals, books, and conferences.

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Éditeur
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3330015683
ISBN 13 
9783330015685
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
208
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