The growing population and climatic uncertainties have compelled producers to undertake faster exploitation of the resources in agricultural production to meet global food security, which, in turn, leads towards unsustainable and input-led inefficient production growth. The problem is further...

Auto-Rickshaws are the important means for urban mobility and an important part of sustainable transportation, as well as a mode for quality life in Indian cities. Integrating Auto-rickshaw services as a feeder mode complements public transportation systems, ensuring connectivity and easy access...

The financing of the Romanian agriculture and rural space through the SAPARD program created the technical and financial premises necessary for the process of accession to the European structures. Thus, the funds developed through the SAPARD Agency have directly contributed to the economic and...

The present study investigates the effectiveness of distribution channels in the marketing perspective of a co-operative dairy plant. The study was conducted to improve the effectiveness of the distribution channel by identifying the pitfalls in the present system. The descriptive type of...

Sustainability standards such as Fairtrade, UTZ, and Rainforest Alliance have recently gained importance in global value chains, with some of the major tropical commodities seeing significant increases in the share of their certified area in the last ten years. This trend is directly related to...

Technologies such as digitally-equipped agricultural equipment, drones, image recognition, sensors, robots and artificial intelli-gence are being rapidly adopted throughout the agrifood system. As a result, actors in the system are generating and using ever more data. While this is already...

Across the U.S. groceries are leaving the urban core and contributing to the food insecurity with which approximately 40 million people struggle. Food cooperatives, which are owned by members of the community, can help fill this void. Often to serve the community, the owners volunteer their time...

Adapting to the Market : Institutional Change in Japan Agricultural Cooperatives -- The Postwar JA Model : 1945-1990 -- Japan's Changing Agricultural Landscape : 1990-2018 -- Putting Farmers First : The Post-1990 Era of JA Reform -- A Tale of Two Coops : The Processes of Strategic Adaptation --...

The market-driven agricultural transformation of the global food system requires all, directly and indirectly, participating actors to compete efficiently and to adapt to changes in consumer demand and buyer requirements. Regarding product quantity and quality, smallholders, in particular, have...

Este estudio forma parte de la colaboración entre la CEPAL y la Coordinadora Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Pequeños Productores y Trabajadores de Comercio Justo (CLAC), cuyo propósito es promover el aporte del comercio justo al desarrollo sostenible de la región. En esta oportunidad, se...

This paper aims at appreciating the need for and relevance of understanding conceptual paradigm of Rural entrepreneurship, Rural Entrepreneurs and the creation of Micro and small village enterprises. Enterprises in rural environments are operating in an arena of extreme and rapid change....

This paper tests whether the choice of when to be paid depends on the income type. A lab-in-the-field experiment in Kenya asked dairy cooperative members to allocate both an irregular windfall and their regular milk payments between two dates. Participants allocated the windfall to the earlier...

Since the 1990s, producers of farm commodities have been attempting to enter value-added agri-food sectors by means of joint ownership of hybrid cooperatives. New generation cooperatives, characterized by substantial supply and equity requirements, inspired much farm producer optimism before...

This paper reviews the literature on agricultural co-operatives and corporate governance to highlight some of the unique accountability problems faced by the governing boards of directors of producer-controlled agricultural co-operatives. Agricultural co-operative objectives and the problems of...