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Annemarie Van Paassen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Smallholder Marketing Cooperatives and Smallholders’ Market Access: Lessons Learned from the Actors Involved
The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2012Co-Authors: Christian Gouet, Annemarie Van PaassenAbstract:Abstract Purpose: This article explores the views of Smallholder Marketing Cooperatives’ (SMCs) leaders and staff, to gain insight about the particular roles SMCs play in facilitating smallholders’ market access. Design/methodology/approach: The authors conceptualized and executed two international workshops in which participants from 42 SMCs from 24 countries deliberated their lessons learned from real-life experiences. Findings: Participants defined three core issues to be tackled by SMCs to play their role related to facilitating their members’ market access: good FO governance and management; access to capital and networking. They highlighted that smallholders’ market access improves not only as a result of SMCs networking and negotiation with key actors in the public and private sectors, but also due to improved interrelationships among SMCs and other types of Farmers’ Organizations (FOs). Peer-to-peer relationships with other SMCs are critical for mutual learning, collaboration and collective action...
Tanguy Bernard - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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returns to scope smallholders commercialisation through multipurpose Cooperatives in ethiopia
Journal of African Economies, 2012Co-Authors: Tanguy Bernard, Alemayehu Seyoum TaffesseAbstract:This paper addresses the extent to which the scope of smallholder Cooperatives' activities may affect their performance in Marketing their members' surplus output. Previous papers have highlighted such effects and explained it by the extra burden that diversified activities impose on the often limited management capacities of these organisations. We propose an alternative explanation, linking the scope of activities to membership structure: Marketing Cooperatives engaging in a vast array of unrelated activities may lose their Marketing-oriented members for those more interested in the new activities proposed. The model's predictions are supported by recently collected data on 172 smallholder grain Marketing Cooperatives in Ethiopia. Implications for the support of farmer organisations are derived and discussed in conclusion. Copyright 2012 , Oxford University Press.
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reaching the rural poor through rural producer organizations a study of agricultural Marketing Cooperatives in ethiopia
Food Policy, 2009Co-Authors: Tanguy Bernard, David J SpielmanAbstract:This paper examines the notion of inclusiveness in rural producer organizations (RPOs) and the extent to which such RPOs can be used to reach the rural poor in sub-Saharan Africa. Using farmer Cooperatives in Ethiopia as a case in point, the paper examines the role of RPOs in supporting smallholder commercialization, and the extent to which principles of an inclusive, bottom-up approach relate to their Marketing performance. Based on a combination of nationally-representative household- and cooperative-level survey data, we find that poorer farmers tend not to participate in these organizations although they may indirectly benefit from them. When they do participate, they are often excluded from decision-making processes. Finally, we investigate the relationship between Marketing performance and inclusiveness and uncover evidence of significant tradeoffs between them.
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impact of Cooperatives on smallholders commercialization behavior evidence from ethiopia
Agricultural Economics, 2008Co-Authors: Tanguy Bernard, Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse, Eleni Z GabremadhinAbstract:This article examines the impact of Marketing Cooperatives on smallholder commercialization of cereals using detailed household data in rural Ethiopia. We use the strong government role in promoting the establishment of Cooperatives to justify the use of propensity score matching to compare households that are cooperative members to similar households in comparable areas without Cooperatives. The analysis reveals that although Cooperatives obtain higher prices for their members, they are not associated with a significant increase in the overall share of cereal production sold commercially by their members. However, these average results hide considerable heterogeneity across households. In particular, we find that smaller farmers tend to reduce their marketed output as a result of higher prices, whereas the opposite is true for larger farmers.
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impact of Cooperatives on smallholders commercialization behavior evidence from ethiopia
Agricultural Economics, 2008Co-Authors: Tanguy Bernard, Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse, Eleni Z GabremadhinAbstract:This article examines the impact of Marketing Cooperatives on smallholder commercialization of cereals using detailed household data in rural Ethiopia. We use the strong government role in promoting the establishment of Cooperatives to justify the use of propensity score matching to compare households that are cooperative members to similar households in comparable areas without Cooperatives. The analysis reveals that although Cooperatives obtain higher prices for their members, they are not associated with a significant increase in the overall share of cereal production sold commercially by their members. However, these average results hide considerable heterogeneity across households. In particular, we find that smaller farmers tend to reduce their marketed output as a result of higher prices, whereas the opposite is true for larger farmers. Copyright (c)2008 International Association of Agricultural Economists.
Cees Veerman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Marketing Cooperatives and financial structure a transaction costs economics analysis
Agricultural Economics, 2001Co-Authors: George Hendrikse, Cees VeermanAbstract:The relationship between the financial structure of a Marketing cooperative (MC) and the requirement of the domination of control by the members is analysed from a transaction costs perspective. A MC receives less favourable terms on outside equity than a conventional firm because the decision power regarding new investments is not allocated to the providers of these funds. This is a serious threat to the survival of a MC in a market where efficient investments are characterised by an increasing level of asset specificity at the processing stage of production. A MC is predicted to be an efficient organisational form when the level of asset specificity at the processing stage of production is at a low or immediate level compared to the level of asset specificity at the farming stage of production. © 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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Marketing Cooperatives and financial structure
Agricultural Economics, 2001Co-Authors: George Hendrikse, Cees VeermanAbstract:The relationship between the financial structure of a Marketing cooperative (MC) and the requirement of the domination of control by the members is analysed from a transaction costs perspective. A MC receives less favourable terms on outside equity than a conventional firm because the decision power regarding new investments is not allocated to the providers of these funds. This is a serious threat to the survival of a MC in a market where efficient investments are characterised by an increasing level of asset specificity at the processing stage of production. A MC is predicted to be an efficient organisational form when the level of asset specificity at the processing stage of production is at a low or immediate level compared to the level of asset specificity at the farming stage of production.
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Marketing Cooperatives and financial structure
ERIM Report Series Research in Management, 2000Co-Authors: George Hendrikse, Cees VeermanAbstract:textabstractThe relationship between the financial structure of a Marketing cooperative (MC) and the requirement of the domination of control by the members is analysed from a transaction costs perspective. A MC receives less favorable terms on outside equity than a conventional firm because the decision power regarding new investments is not allocated to the providers of these funds. This is a serious threat to the survival of a MC in a market where efficient investments are characterized by an increasing level of asset specificity at the processing stage of production. A MC is predicted to be an efficient organizational form when the level of asset specificity at the processing stage of production is at a low or immediate level compared to the level of asset specificity at the farming stage of production.
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Marketing Cooperatives and financial structure a transaction costs economics analysis
2000Co-Authors: George Hendrikse, Cees VeermanAbstract:The relationship between the financial structure of a Marketing cooperative (MC) and the requirement of the domination of control by the members is analysed from a transaction costs perspective. A MC receives less favorable terms on outside equity than a conventional firm because the decision power regarding new investments is not allocated to the providers of these funds. This is a serious threat to the survival of a MC in a market where efficient investments are characterized by an increasing level of asset specificity at the processing stage of production. A MC is predicted to be an efficient organizational form when the level of asset specificity at the processing stage of production is at a low or immediate level compared to the level of asset specificity at the farming stage of production.
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Marketing Cooperatives as a system of attributes
ERIM (Electronic) Books and Chapters, 1997Co-Authors: George Hendrikse, Cees VeermanAbstract:Changes in the market conditions for fruit and vegetables have induced Dutch co-operative auctions to restructure their sales and Marketing activities. Nine auctions merged into VTN and established the Marketing organisation The Greenery International BV. VTN/The Greenery have encountered many problems in their first years of operation. Part of these problems can be explained by the lack of organisational coherence in the new co-operative enterprise. VTN/The Greenery is analysed from the perspective of a system of organisational attributes. While the old system is taken apart, a new, coherent system has not been fully established. Further restructuring may have to take place before the new system of attributes will be efficient.
Xuchu Xu - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the efficiency of agricultural Marketing Cooperatives in china s zhejiang province
Managerial and Decision Economics, 2013Co-Authors: Zuhui Huang, Qiao Xin Liang, Xuchu Xu, Yiqing Song, Yuming FuAbstract:On the basis of the bootstrap-Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), this paper estimates technical, scale, and pure technical efficiencies for the agricultural Marketing Cooperatives in China's Zhejiang Province and employs a single truncated bootstrap procedure to identify the key determinants of efficiencies. The empirical results suggest that pure technical inefficiency was the main source of the technical inefficiency. Factors having significantly positive impacts on efficiency of Cooperatives are local economic development level, entrepreneurship of managers, and human capital of members. The size of financial leverage and the number of board members have a negative impact on pure technical efficiency. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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the efficiency of agricultural Marketing Cooperatives in china s zhejiang province
Managerial and Decision Economics, 2013Co-Authors: Zuhui Huang, Qiao Xin Liang, Xuchu Xu, Yiqing Song, Yuming FuAbstract:On the basis of the bootstrap-Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), this paper estimates technical, scale, and pure technical efficiencies for the agricultural Marketing Cooperatives in China's Zhejiang Province and employs a single truncated bootstrap procedure to identify the key determinants of efficiencies. The empirical results suggest that pure technical inefficiency was the main source of the technical inefficiency. Factors having significantly positive impacts on efficiency of Cooperatives are local economic development level, entrepreneurship of managers, and human capital of members. The size of financial leverage and the number of board members have a negative impact on pure technical efficiency. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Christian Gouet - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Smallholder Marketing Cooperatives and Smallholders’ Market Access: Lessons Learned from the Actors Involved
The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2012Co-Authors: Christian Gouet, Annemarie Van PaassenAbstract:Abstract Purpose: This article explores the views of Smallholder Marketing Cooperatives’ (SMCs) leaders and staff, to gain insight about the particular roles SMCs play in facilitating smallholders’ market access. Design/methodology/approach: The authors conceptualized and executed two international workshops in which participants from 42 SMCs from 24 countries deliberated their lessons learned from real-life experiences. Findings: Participants defined three core issues to be tackled by SMCs to play their role related to facilitating their members’ market access: good FO governance and management; access to capital and networking. They highlighted that smallholders’ market access improves not only as a result of SMCs networking and negotiation with key actors in the public and private sectors, but also due to improved interrelationships among SMCs and other types of Farmers’ Organizations (FOs). Peer-to-peer relationships with other SMCs are critical for mutual learning, collaboration and collective action...