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Author : Anna Milford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788280620811
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Coffee, Co-operatives and Competition written by Anna Milford and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ruerd Ruben
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9086868053
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (868 download)
Download or read book Coffee certification in East Africa: impact on farms, families and cooperatives written by Ruerd Ruben and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-09-04 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Certification of coffee producers is frequently suggested as a promising strategy for improving the position of smallholder farmers in the market. After the launch of the first Fairtrade label in 1988, several other standards have been promoted either by voluntary agencies (Utz-certified) or by private coffee companies. Each coffee label relies on different strategies for enhancing sustainable production and responsible trade. Coffee certification in East Africa is of a rather recent nature but has been rapidly expanding, representing currently 26 percent of the world's sustainable certified coffee supply. Marketing channels, cooperative organisation and household structures show notable differences between Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia. Empirical studies on the effects of standards for smallholders are scarce. This book intends to deepen our understanding on the role and functions of coffee certification regimes, based on three innovative approaches: (1) longitudinal field survey data capturing changes in coffee farming systems and effects on household welfare; (2) in-depth interviews and behavioural experiments regarding risk attitudes, trust and investments at cooperative level; and (3) detailed discourse analyses regarding gender roles and female bargaining power within coffee households. The chapters included in this book provide new and original evidence about the impact of coffee certification based on large-scale field surveys and in-depth interviews.
Author : KARIN. WEDIG
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367660543
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Cooperatives, the State, and Corporate Power in African Export Agriculture written by KARIN. WEDIG and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agriculture is a major contributor to Africa's GDP, the region's biggest source of employment and its largest food producer. However, agricultural productivity remains low and buyer-driven global value chains offer few opportunities for small producers to upgrade into higher value-added activities. In recent years, the revival of Africa's cooperatives has been celebrated by governments and international donors as a pathway towards inclusive agricultural development, and this book explores the strengths but also the issues which surround these cooperatives. The book scrutinizes the neoliberal ideal of economic prosperity arising through the operation of liberalized labor markets by illuminating the discriminatory nature of Uganda's informal labor relations. It points to the role of cooperatives as a potential instrument of progressive change in African export agriculture, where large numbers of small producers depend on casual wage work in addition to farming. In contrast to the portrayal, advanced by some governments and rarely questioned by donors, of an unproblematic co-existence of small producers' collective action and big capital interests, the author calls for a re-politicized debate on the Social and Solidarity Economy. As part of this, she highlights the adverse political and economic conditions faced by African cooperatives, including intense international competition in agricultural processing, inadequate access to infrastructure and services, and at times antagonistic state-cooperative relations. Supported by wide-ranging interdisciplinary evidence, including new ethnographic, survey and interview data, this book shows how cooperatives may be co-opted by both the state and corporations in a discourse that ignores structural inequalities in value chains and emphasizes poverty reduction over economic and political empowerment. It provides a critique of New Institutional Economics as a framework for understanding how institutions shape redistribution, and develops a political economy approach to explore the conditions for structural change in African export agriculture.
Author : Nicole Hassoun
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107010306
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Globalization and Global Justice written by Nicole Hassoun and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-22 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how globalization shrinks distance, thereby expanding international obligations to aid the poor and make free trade fair.
Author : Tapas R. Dash
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498555233
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Cooperatives in the Global Economy written by Tapas R. Dash and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cooperatives in the Global Economy presents a unique collection of research-based chapters contributed by leading social and economic thinkers that provide critical insights into how the cooperative business model meets the challenges of the complex global problems in today’s competitive economy. Apart from theoretical arguments in favor of the value-based cooperative business model, this book presents the performance indicators of various forms of cooperatives, their potentialities, and challenges they face across borders. The contributors reexamine how cooperatives empower the marginalized population of the world by bringing them into the mainstream of socio-economic activities through creating employment opportunities, working towards alleviation of poverty, ensuring for more equitable distribution of scarce resources, and providing the basis for a sustainable economy and its meaningful growth. Today, in the global competitive economy, the challenges for cooperatives are enormous due to their particular value commitments, forms of incorporation, and organizational structures. In spite of the presence of several challenges, cooperatives promote economic growth and social justice. In this context, this book also presents the critical roles of cooperatives in balancing economic, social, and environmental concerns to build a better, equitable, and sustainable world.
Author : Lowell Gudmundson
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807176788
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Costa Rica After Coffee written by Lowell Gudmundson and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2021-10-20 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Costa Rica After Coffee explores the political, social, and economic place occupied by the coffee industry in contemporary Costa Rican history. In this follow-up to the 1986 classic Costa Rica Before Coffee, Lowell Gudmundson delves deeply into archival sources, alongside the individual histories of key coffee-growing families, to explore the development of the co-op movement, the rise of the gourmet coffee market, and the societal transformations Costa Rica has undergone as a result of the coffee industry’s powerful presence in the country. While Costa Rican coffee farmers and co-ops experienced a golden age in the 1970s and 1980s, the emergence and expansion of a gourmet coffee market in the 1990s drastically reduced harvest volumes. Meanwhile, urbanization and improved education among the Costa Rican population threatened the continuance of family coffee farms, because of the lack of both farmland and a successor generation of farmers. As the last few decades have seen a rise in tourism and other industries within the country, agricultural exports like coffee have ceased to occupy the same crucial space in the Costa Rican economy. Gudmundson argues that the fulfillment of promises of reform from the co-op era had the paradoxical effect of challenging the endurance of the coffee industry.
Author : Christopher Brendan Barrett
Publisher : CABI
ISBN 13 : 1845932706
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (459 download)
Download or read book Decentralization and the Social Economics of Development written by Christopher Brendan Barrett and published by CABI. This book was released on 2007 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been broad agreement in recent years that decentralization is key in achieving democracy at local level. Examining the successes, failures, possibilities and limitations of efforts across rural Kenya, this book analyses the socioeconomic and institutional prerequisites for successful decentralization, and the role of community groups and producer organizations in reducing poverty and promoting empowerment. Original empirical studies explore the fundamental elements of coherent, inclusive and ultimately effective decentralization, and how these can be applied to efforts across the African continent and beyond.
Author : Karin Wedig
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351629476
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Cooperatives, the State, and Corporate Power in African Export Agriculture written by Karin Wedig and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-22 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agriculture is a major contributor to Africa’s GDP, the region’s biggest source of employment and its largest food producer. However, agricultural productivity remains low and buyer-driven global value chains offer few opportunities for small producers to upgrade into higher value-added activities. In recent years, the revival of Africa’s cooperatives has been celebrated by governments and international donors as a pathway towards inclusive agricultural development, and this book explores the strengths but also the issues which surround these cooperatives. The book scrutinizes the neoliberal ideal of economic prosperity arising through the operation of liberalized labor markets by illuminating the discriminatory nature of Uganda’s informal labor relations. It points to the role of cooperatives as a potential instrument of progressive change in African export agriculture, where large numbers of small producers depend on casual wage work in addition to farming. In contrast to the portrayal, advanced by some governments and rarely questioned by donors, of an unproblematic co-existence of small producers’ collective action and big capital interests, the author calls for a re-politicized debate on the Social and Solidarity Economy. As part of this, she highlights the adverse political and economic conditions faced by African cooperatives, including intense international competition in agricultural processing, inadequate access to infrastructure and services, and at times antagonistic state-cooperative relations. Supported by wide-ranging interdisciplinary evidence, including new ethnographic, survey and interview data, this book shows how cooperatives may be co-opted by both the state and corporations in a discourse that ignores structural inequalities in value chains and emphasizes poverty reduction over economic and political empowerment. It provides a critique of New Institutional Economics as a framework for understanding how institutions shape redistribution, and develops a political economy approach to explore the conditions for structural change in African export agriculture.
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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1457816938
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (578 download)
Download or read book Sub-Saharan Africa: Effects of Infrastructure Conditions on Export Competitiveness, Third Annual Report, Inv. 332-477 written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard C. Williams
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317037278
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Cooperative Movement written by Richard C. Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Williams surveys the history of the cooperative movement from its origins in the 18th century and deals with the theory of cooperation, as contrasted with the 'Standard Economic Model', based on competition. The book contains the results of field studies of a number of successful cooperatives both in the developed and developing world. It includes insights from personal interviews of cooperative members and concludes by considering the successes and challenges of the cooperative movement as an alternative to the global neo-colonialism and imperialism that now characterizes free-market capitalist approaches to globalization. The book considers democratic and local control of essential economic activities such as the production, distribution, and retailing of goods and services. It suggests that cooperative approaches to these economic activities are already reducing poverty and resulting in equitable distributions of wealth and income without plundering the resources of developing countries.
Author : B. S. Baviskar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429723628
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Finding The Middle Path written by B. S. Baviskar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soviet-style socialism has failed; but in Russia, China, and India the transition to capitalism has proven hazardous. Elsewhere, capitalism itself appears to be in crisis, often failing to meet the fundamental needs of workers, small farmers, and even the middle classes. Clearly, the world needs enterprises that are both economically efficient and
Author : United States. Agency for International Development
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Development of Cooperative Enterprises, 1967 written by United States. Agency for International Development and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pekka Jämsén
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN 13 : 9789251043301
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (433 download)
Download or read book Capital Formation in Kenyan Farmer-owned Cooperatives written by Pekka Jämsén and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper summarizes the main findings of a case study of capital formation and investment in a small sample of large coffee and dairy cooperatives in Kenya and provides some practical recommendations for improving capital formation in these two co-operative sectors.
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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134002637
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Fair Trade written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elke Grawert
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783631574676
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (746 download)
Download or read book Departures from Post-colonial Authoritarianism written by Elke Grawert and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study sends the reader on an exciting journey into social and political life in Africa. It gives space to the voices of Tanzanian villagers, rural associations, branches of political parties and local government officers and their views of socio-economic and political change during the 1990s. This authentic picture is combined with a thorough sociological and political economy analysis showing the dynamics in the relations between state components and social forces in the context of neo-liberal globalization. The book is not only attractive as a country case study. It contains a deep analysis of the paradigmatic shift of African political systems from post-colonial rule to governance in response to neo-liberalism and provides new insights in processes of political transformation.
Author : Jos Bijman
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784719382
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)
Download or read book Cooperatives, Economic Democratization and Rural Development written by Jos Bijman and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agricultural cooperatives and producer organizations are institutional innovations which have the potential to reduce poverty and improve food security. This book presents a raft of international case studies, from developing and transition countries, to analyse the internal and external challenges that these complex organizations face and the solutions that they have developed. The contributors provide an increased understanding of the transformation of traditional community organizations into modern farmer-owned businesses. They cover issues including: the impact on rural development and inclusiveness, the role of social capital, formal versus informal organizations, democratic participation and member relations, and their role in value chains. Students and scholars will find the book’s multidisciplinary approach useful in their research. It will also be of interest to policy-makers seeking to understand the wide diversity of organizational forms and functions. NGOs, donors and governments seeking to support rural developments will benefit from the discussions raised in this book.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1200 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book News for Farmer Cooperatives written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 1200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
