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Journal articles on the topic "Farmers' collective"

Tatlonghari, Gerlie, and Zenaida Sumalde. "Formation of Social Capital for Common Pool Resource Management." Asian Journal of Agriculture and Development 5, no. 2 (December 15, 2008): 21–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.37801/ajad2008.5.2.2.

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A standard optimal investment model is used to analyze farmers' decision to accumulate social capital in terms of participating in collective activities for irrigation management. Several predictions borne out by the data are presented in this study. Social capital investment in small irrigation groups (1) decreases when the farmer's field is located at the downstream area where water is scarce; (2) increases when farmers have larger ricefields; (3) decreases when farmers pay the irrigation service dues; and (4) increases when the farmer belongs to a heterogeneous group which facilitates collective action when pooling resources to reduce the risks involved in rice farming. Moreover, the farmers' social capital investment in other small irrigation groups in the irrigation system 1) increases when farmers have larger rice-growing areas; 2) increases when there is a high level of trust among the farmers; but 3) declines as the opportunity cost of time increases due to coordination and participation in collective activities with farmers from other areas of the system.

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Silvert, Colby, John Diaz, Laura Warner, and Willis Ochieng. "To work alone or with peers: Exploring smallholder coffee farmers’ perceptions influencing collective actions." Advancements in Agricultural Development 2, no. 2 (May 18, 2021): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.37433/aad.v2i2.95.

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This study examines how smallholder coffee farmers’ perceptions may influence their engagement in peer mobilization and collective action. Forty smallholder coffee farmers were interviewed in the Central Highlands region of Peru using a closed-ended instrument. The sample of smallholder farmers was achieved using purposive and snowball sampling methods. Quantitative data on farmers’ attitudes and aspirations regarding working with peers, autonomy, and external support as well as knowledge, skills, and behaviors pertinent to collective actions were collected and analyzed using descriptive and correlational procedures. Key findings indicate farmers perceive a need for external support, feel there are benefits of collective actions, and aspire to work with their peers. Based on the findings, it is recommended that practitioners and farmer group leaders focus training efforts on building smallholders’ knowledge and skills in mobilization, encourage peer association/collective action as a source of external support, and target knowledgeable, skilled and confident farmers to lead collective actions. This study has implications to bolster support for farmer-to-farmer extension and technical assistance systems and inform the identification of leader farmers.

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Zhu, Xiaoyan, and Guangyao Wang. "Impact of Agricultural Cooperatives on Farmers’ Collective Action: A Study Based on the Socio-Ecological System Framework." Agriculture 14, no. 1 (January 4, 2024): 96. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/agriculture14010096.

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Agricultural cooperatives greatly influence agricultural and rural modernization in China. Based on 381 farmer samples in the arid Tarim River Basin, this empirical study aimed to construct an index system for the exploration of the relationship between cooperatives and farmers’ collective action by using the Socio-Ecological System framework. The results showed that agricultural cooperatives helped to empower farmers to act collectively. Agricultural cooperatives, with the mechanisms of collective decision making, institutional constraints, and internal supervision, could realize the integration of resources required for farmers’ collective action and promote the sharing of risks and benefits. By providing financing support and a platform for resource integration, cooperatives could reduce constrains induced by economic difference among farmers; enhance village leadership, organization, and coordination; and promote the accumulation of social capital and villagers’ sense of identity with the village. Particularly, cooperatives could support farmers to adopt water-saving irrigation technologies and reduce their over-dependence on chemical pesticides and fertilizers, thus promoting farmers’ collective action. Therefore, the development of agricultural cooperatives will help enhance farmers’ collective action, promote the modernization of rural governance, and realize rural revitalization.

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Dinarti, Siwi Istiana, Sri Peni Wastutiningsih, Subejo Subejo, and Supriyanto Supriyanto. "KECERDASAN KOLEKTIF PETANI DI LAHAN PERTANIAN PASIR PANTAI KECAMATAN PANJATAN KABUPATEN KULON PROGO." Agro Ekonomi 24, no. 1 (January 25, 2017): 86. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/jae.18328.

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This study aims to determine the process of collective intelligence of farmers to describe level of collective intelligence of farmers in coastal agriculture area farm management and factors of the collective intelligence of farmers. in coastal agriculture area. The basic method used here was namely analytical descriptive method. The sample was taken with purposive method. Analysis method was done by using chi-square and gamma tests. The results showed that the process as of collective intelligence of coastal agriculture area fanners in Panjatan Sub District were social learning and consensus process. Level of collective intelligence of farmers' on the coastal agriculture area tends to be high. Indicators of collective intelligence that have been done by all of the farmers were land clearing for agriculture, land consolidation, farm road construction, group planning arrangement, auction markets arrangement, and pantek well construction. There were two indicators which haven't been done by farmers i.e. using of plastic mulch a.nd using of power sprayer. The factors affecting collective intelligence are farmer's organization activities, farmer's experience and land size.

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Yuniarto, Antonius, and Maria R. Nindita Radyati. "Analysis of Joint Marketing Initiatives by Farm Group and its Contribution to Marketing Performance." Journal of Social Research 2, no. 10 (September 4, 2023): 3411–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.55324/josr.v2i10.1424.

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The agricultural industry is critical to human life, yet it is not comparable to small farmer’s income in Indonesia. The number of farmer households is decreasing, and the average age of farmers is increasing. The agricultural industry is no longer appealing to the younger generation due to a variety of issues experienced by Indonesian farmers. The majority of Indonesian farmers are small-scale, with little land and production. Farmers also face obstacles such as not having sufficient skills in agricultural business which results in low productivity and no added value to their production. This condition also causes them to have to deal with volatile prices from middlemen which are often not profitable for farmers. The Collective Marketing initiative was created to help agricultural enterprises become more lucrative by increasing the size of farmers' economies of scale, allowing them to enter a secure market with enough bargaining power. This study examines the economic and social impacts of Collective Marketing initiatives in Kopwan Srikandi, as well as in Koperasi Tani Kopi Prima Jaya and KTH Cibulao Hijau. This study also discusses the impact of the Collective Marketing initiative on sustainable development.

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Wulansari, Ica. "Jaringan Bonding Kapital Sosial Petani Melestarikan Mekanisme Adaptasi Kolektif Petani." Jurnal Sosiologi Andalas 8, no. 2 (October 4, 2022): 98–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.25077/jsa.8.2.98-114.2022.

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Farmers community neeed collective adaptive capacity to cope with climate change. The aimed of this research was to identify and analysis the network of social capital to preserve collective adaptation mechanism. This study adopted a qualitative approach to the type of descriptive. In analysing this research, the writer used coding analytics to find out the thematic category through social capital concept. The findings indicated that the bonding network of farmer was consist of access of knowledge, collective planning mechanism of planting paddy crop and formal institution of farmer groups. The bonding network had succeeded sustaining adaptive collective mechanism due to the existence of knowledgeable farmers. Meanwhile, this collective adaptive mechanism was strengthened by social interaction between farmer`s bonding network and bridging network. This interaction effectively to build collective planning capacity based on farmers group learning.

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Noer, Irmayani. "Collective Marketing Performance of Coffee Beans in Lampung Province." International Journal of Applied Business and International Management 7, no. 2 (August 20, 2022): 72–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.32535/ijabim.v7i2.1725.

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This study aims to identify actors in collective marketing channels and analyze the collective marketing performance of coffee beans in Lampung Province, Indonesia. Research samples are 50 coffee farmers in West Lampung Regency, randomly selected from farmer groups. The analytical method used to assess the collective marketing performance was marketing margin analysis.”The results showed that many actors were involved in the marketing channel, including collectors, wholesalers, farmer groups, Federate Farmers Groups, Joint Business Groups, and exporters.”Their involvement increased the handling costs during the marketing process. There are four collective marketing channels of coffee beans identified in this research.” Based on the results of marketing margin analysis, it is known that the most efficient collective marketing channel is direct selling to Joint Business Group.”

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Wulansari, Ica, Oekan S. Abdoellah, Budhi Gunawan, and Parikesit. "Identification of Adaptive Capacity Assessments to Improve Collective Adaptation of Farmers to Climate Change." Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development 12, no. 1 (December 20, 2021): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.18488/5005.v12i1.4391.

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Collective adaptation is a relevant discussion in association with the limited adaptive capacity of farmers to deal with climate change. This study aims to improve the collective adaptation of farmers through the identification of adaptive capacity assessments. A collective adaptation mechanism in the form of planning for rice planting time has succeeded in reducing the vulnerability of farmers. This study was conducted at a rice production center with a collective adaptation mechanism in Indramayu District, West Java Province, Indonesia. The data were collected using a quantitative method through a questionnaire distributed to 296 farmer respondents and a qualitative method through structured interviews. The observations provided an overview for authors to build structured interviews. The results of the study show that the adaptive capacity of farmers is supported by social capital and collective adaptation mechanisms of farmers consisting of trust in the formal leaders, quality of collective decisions, and planning capacity. The results of this study contribute to the implementation of public policies in order to support the successful implementation of adaptation strategies to deal with climate change in accordance with the needs of farmers.

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Sarjana, S., M. N. Setiapermas, and S. Basuki. "ANTISIPASI DAN MEKANISME PENGAMBILAN KEPUTUSAN PETANI DALAM PENGENDALIAN DAMPAK ANOMALI IKLIM(FARMERS’ ANTICIPATION AND DECISION MAKING MECHANISM IN MANAGING IMPACT OF CLIMATE ANOMALY)." Agromet 21, no. 1 (June 19, 2007): 47. http://dx.doi.org/10.29244/j.agromet.21.1.47-54.

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<p>Farmer’s collective participation in climate anomaly anticipating and managing its impacts are more significant. The study purposed to identify the climate anomaly impact and its anticipation in farmer’s level. The study is conducted in eight districts, i.e., Temanggung, Magelang, Kebumen, Brebes, Kendal, Grobogan, Pati, and Sragen, on July – October 2005. The analysis based on interview of 84 respondents that consist of farmers and officers of local agricultural services. According to the farmers, El Nino affected their farming activities like longer dry season, decreased yield, delay of onset planting season, increased costs for irrigation, seed, pesticides, and cost of land preparation. In farmers’ level, climate anomaly impacts was managed by planting schedules improvement, changing varieties or commodities, and looking for alternative sources of waters. Farmers determine the actions by considering collective decision and the guidance of agriculture extension workers. Time tolerance of farmers tin tailoring climate anomaly is about a month. However, most of farmers manage the farming system based on normal condition. As the climate anomaly is an external factor that affect farming system, local authority should support the farmer’s collective actions through dissemination of anticipation strategies in managing the impacts climate anomaly, and support facilities to implement the strategies.</p>

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Kolaj, Rezear, Edmira Ozuni, Dubravka Skunca, and Dorjana Zahoalia. "The Challenges of Collective Action for Olive Growers in Albania." European Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 3, no. 1 (January 21, 2017): 93. http://dx.doi.org/10.26417/ejis.v3i1.93-98.

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Despite a considerable increase of surfaces with new olive cultivars during last two decades in Albania, the yields have not followed the expected trend. Participation of farmers in common activities would have benefits for costs cutting and efficiency as well as for the commons in a broader economic and social aspect. An opportunity for reducing costs and increasing farmers' income is the organization of farmer’s production by the principles of collective action. The research objective is to find factors affecting the olive growers (farmers) participation in collective actions in Berat area, the second largest olive production area in Albania. A questionnaire was designed in order to measure several variables. Interviewing took place from October 2015 to February 2016. Education, access to markets, income and leadership have statistical significance and influence olive producer’s participation in activities based on collective action. The research results can be useful to policymakers, public bodies and researchers. The fact that with farm size increase, decrease the possibility of farmer’s participation in collective action activities is important finding that helps in understanding the critical financing limits and optimization of the public funds used in creation of public policies.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Farmers' collective"

Aniekwe, Chika C. "Collective Action and Everyday Politics of Smallholder Farmers in Ugbawka: Examining Local Realities and Struggles of Smallholder Rice Farmers." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/15705.

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The research draws on an ethnographic research and explores the everyday practice of collective action in Ugbawka in Enugu State by using interviews and participant observation. The study reveals that smallholder collective action is not best fitted into formal institutional arrangement but takes place within a complex and intricate process that involves interaction with diversity of institutions and actors. Equally, the interactions that occur amongst actors are mediated at the community level through interplay of socio-cultural and political factors. This study recognises and places emphasis on understanding of agency and the exercise of agency at the local level arguing that smallholder farmers are not robot but active individual who exercise their agency purposively or impulsively depending on conditions and the assets available at their disposition as well as their ability to navigate the intricate power dynamic inherent at local context. The thesis thus questioned the simplistic use of formal institutional collective action framework in smallholder collective action at the community level and argues that institutions are not static and do not determine outcomes but are informed by the prevailing conditions at the community level. The study emphasises the role of existing institutions and socially embedded principles in community governance and argues that actors should be the focus of analysis rather than the system in understanding smallholder collective action. The study concludes by advocating for further research that could explore the possibility of hybrid approach that accepts the advantages of both formal and informal institutional forms of smallholder collective action.

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Gonzalez, Alvarez Eleazar U. "Economic and social foundations of collective action an inter-disciplinary institutional approach to Mexican dairy farmers /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4816.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.
The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on February 13, 2008) Includes bibliographical references.

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Blomqvist, (Jonsson) Anna. "Food and Fashion : Water Management and Collective Action among Irrigation Farmers and Textile Industrialists in South India." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Tema vatten i natur och samhälle, 1996. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-54550.

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In recent years, much ofthe political debate in the West, East aud South has focused on the decentralization of responsibilities from the state to private enterprises and NGOs. But what potential is there for local communities to create their own govenlance structures able to deal with issues up till recently seen as the responsibility of the state? In this thesis, answer to this question is sought by analyzing two case studies from the semi-arid Coimbatore-region in South India from an institutionai perspective. One case concerns the efforts to involve farmers in irrigation water management in the Lower Bhavani Project, while the other focuses on the pressure on textile industrialists in Tirupur city to collectively treat their polluted effluent water. In both cases, the new distribution ofresponsibilities required that groups ofwater users would succeed in establishing new entities for collective action among themselves strong enough to prevent free-riding on a massive scale. Overcoming three main obstacles proved crucial in this process; meeting coordination costs, re-defining the notion of free-riding among resource users, and meeting motivation costs. Factors both within and outsicte the loeal community affected the degree ofsuccess. The distribution and lise of economic, moral and physical power between various actors and the interconnectedness between local and external institutions proved crucial for the establishrnent oflocal govemance stmctures. Moreover, the historical relation between the respective user group and the state has to a large extent affected the goals and strategies oflocal entities of eolleetive action. Clearly, resource management problems at localleve1 can not be solved by simply decentralizing responsibilities from the state to groups ofresource users. Rather, the state could playan important role by initiating, supporting and directing slich local entities of collective action.

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Pu, Qiongyou. "Who Won? Who Failed? A Comparative Analysis of Online Collective Action in China." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1276112548.

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Heimbrandt, Andreas. "Styrelsens roll och uppgifter i det lantbrukskooperativa företaget : en fallanalys /." Uppsala : Institutionen för ekonomi, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet, 2007. http://epsilon.slu.se/10522837.pdf.

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Tseti, Angela. "Photo-literature and trauma : from collective history to connective memory." Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015USPCC004.

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Prenant appui sur l'intérêt contemporain pour les rencontres texte/image et la prolifération récente des oeuvres bi-médiales, cette thèse se propose d'étudier les structures et les qualités du photo-roman, en vue de soutenir que cette forme nouvelle offre un espace privilégié à l'interrogation — et potentiellement à la représentation ¬des événements traumatiques collectifs. L'exploration d'une série de travaux photo-littéraires produits entre la fin du 20ème siècle et le début du 21ème et caractérisés par une thématique historiographique ainsi que la concomitance avec une catastrophe historique suggère que la combinaison de la fiction et de la photographie au sein d'un même dispositif photo-narratif est susceptible de fournir une alternative à la problématique bien connue de l'irreprésentabilité du trauma. Nous considérons que la photo-littérature emploie les rapports souvent notés entre la photographie et l'histoire, la biographie, le temps et la mort dans le cadre familier du roman, tout en faisant appel au lecteur comme un acteur indispensable du processus d'élaboration du sens textuel. Les mécanismes complexes du composé photo-textuel permettent de mettre en lumière le fait que les histoires de vie personnelles sont pertinentes à l'expérience collective, ainsi que les parallèles entre des événements historiques traumatiques divers. Ainsi, la photo-littérature permet un passage de l'histoire à un genre de mémoire qui est essentiellement connectif ; par là même, cette forme nouvelle va à l'encontre d'une incapacité présumée à énoncer la mémoire traumatique, en suivant une approche fondée sur l'attention et l'investissement affectif
Drawing on the increased interest in word-image interactions and the recent proliferation of bimedial works of literature, this study proposes an investigation of the structures and qualities of the photo-nove', with the contention that this emergent new form constitutes a privileged space where instances of collective trauma may be addressed, potentially even represented. The exploration of a series of works of photo-literature of the Tate 20th and early 215t century that are affiliated to historiography and unfold in the midst or aftermath of a great historic calamity suggests that the combination of fiction and photography within a single, photo-textual narrative may counter the problematic of unrepresentability raised by Trauma Studies. Photo-literature, as this study purports, employs photography's well-lçnown relations to history, biography, time and'cleath within the familiar schema of the nove', while invoking? the respondent reader as an essential component of the meaning¬making process. These elaborate workings of the photo-textual compound result in the highlighting of the individual life story's pertinence to the collective experience and the establishment of parallels between diverse historical instances of trauma. Thus, photo-literature enables the passage from history to an essentially connective type of memory and, subsequently, responds to a professed inability to enunciate the traumatic experience, by offering an approach that is reliant on affective investment and attention

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Bavec, Simon. "Plateformes collectives d’approvisionnement de produits locaux – performance organisationnelle et implication des agriculteurs." Thesis, université Paris-Saclay, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020UPASB007.

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Résumé : Les systèmes agroalimentaires sont confrontés aux nombreux enjeux socio-économiques. Dans ce contexte, les politiques publiques soutiennent une transition vers des systèmes plus durables. Elles stimulent une augmentation des volumes de produits locaux dans la restauration collective publique. Cette demande institutionnelle et d’autres clients professionnels rencontre plusieurs obstacles (ex. volumes, diversité, régularité qualitative) auxquels les agriculteurs individuels n’ont pas nécessairement la capacité de répondre. Les initiatives récentes telles que les plateformes collectives visent à structurer des filières d’approvisionnement en produits locaux. S’intéresser à leur gouvernance devient donc central pour accompagner une transition vers un approvisionnement plus durable. Cette thèse a pour l’objectif d’explorer les modes de gouvernances des plateformes collectives à travers l’analyse de 6 cas d’études dans l’ancienne région Midi-Pyrénées. Dans le prolongement des propositions théoriques relevant de l’économie des coûts de transaction et d’une analyse du positionnement stratégique des plateformes, la thèse propose une nouvelle appréciation de la performance organisationnelle. Au-delà d’expliquer la diversité organisationnelle des plateformes, l’analyse montre que la performance organisationnelle doit s’évaluer par l’adéquation entre structure de gouvernance et positionnement stratégique. L’analyse met en évidence que les plateformes offrent de faibles incitations économiques aux agriculteurs adhérents. La deuxième partie de thèse s’intéresse aux déterminants de leur implication et montre que ceux-ci sont principalement socio-économiques et plus subjectifs. In fine, cette thèse offre les recommandations pour améliorer les performances organisationnelles des plateformes collectives et offre les éléments de réflexion pour les politiques publiques qui subventionnent les plateformes collectives
Abstract: Agrofood systems are confronted with numerous socio-economic challenges. In this context, public policies support a transition to more sustainable systems. These public policies stimulate an increase in the volume of local products in public catering. This demand of institutional catering and other professional clients faces several obstacles (e.g. volumes, diversity, and consistency of quality) that cannot be overcome by individual farmers. Recent initiatives such as collective platforms aim to coordinate local food supply chains. To investigate their governance therefore becomes central to support a transition to more sustainable supply chains. The goal of this thesis is to explore the modes of governance of collective platforms through the analysis of 6 case studies in the former Midi-Pyrénées region. Building on the theoretical proposals of transaction costs economics and on the analysis of organizations strategic positioning, the thesis proposes a new appreciation of organizational performance. Beyond explaining the organizational diversity of the platforms, the analysis shows that an alignment of governance structure and strategic positioning generates an organizational performance of collective platforms. Furthermore, the analysis shows that the collective platforms offer weak economic incentives to farmers which are members. In this context, the second part of the thesis looks at the determinants of their involvement and shows that these determinants are mainly socio-economic and subjective. Finally, this study offers recommendations for improving the organizational performance of collective platforms and provides food for thought for public policies that subsidize collective platforms

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Spånning, Anna C. "Towards Institutional Stabilization and Development? : A Study of Inter-Organizational Cooperation in the Tajik Cotton Industry." Doctoral thesis, Karlstads universitet, Avdelningen för politiska och historiska studier, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-4892.

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Close to two decades after the break-up of the Soviet Union, there is still a marked difference in developmental paths, including institutional as well as economic development and performance among the states emerging from the ruins of the vast empire. Turning attention to the least successful post-Soviet region, Central Asia, and Tajikistan in particular, this thesis provides a contribution to the discussion of how to institutionalize social power and build the foundations for political community in post-colonial societies. It is argued here that increased institutional stability may be achieved through inter-organizational cooperation among main actors within an institutional setting. Through the dispersion of intra- and inter-organizational effects of cooperation beyond the action situations where they are produced, several goals may be achieved. These are increased predictability, transparency and durability in governance, a more equitable distribution of wealth, and (in relation to the kinship-foundation of Tajik society) the embracing of kin-divisions in society. The study examines how and why organizations decide to get involved in cooperative collective activities within the Tajik cotton industry, an industry infamous for its unscrupulous financing schemes to which local investors tie farmers; schemes lacking business ethics and the interconnection of the social and economic with political relations. The study, through an embedded case study of one project (the Farmers’ Ownership Model), also examines the institutional implications of inter-organizational collective activities. The study’s empirical base is a combination of data derived from literature, reports, reviews of official documents, as well as from interviews and an expert survey conducted among organizational representatives with expert knowledge on the Tajik cotton industry. The results suggest that it is possible to divide the forms of cooperation into three broad categories; business based cooperation, development and support-based cooperation and unilateral cooperative activity. The latter category contains interactions based on helping as well as on coercion. The motives for cooperating follow the same divisions, with profit and position-related motives dominating business-based cooperation. Development and support-based cooperation are primarily motivated by non-profit factors, such as community-(re)building and knowledge enhancement, as well as position-related motives. Within the group of unilateral interactions, the same divisions valid for business-based cooperation (unilateral cooperative activity based on coercion) and development and support-based cooperation (unilateral cooperative activity based on helping) are found. The actors approached for this study confirm that the institutional setting is “difficult” and that the social and political climate is not supportive of inter-organizational cooperative collective activities. Despite this, the actors agree that the time is right for cooperative efforts. The implications of inter-organizational cooperative collective activities within the frameworks of the examined Farmers’ Ownership Model project are many and important from a stabilizing perspective. Numerous strategic effects have been identified, among which is the creation of the first open farmer-owned joint stock company in the country, providing crop financing, high quality input, and technical assistance to the farmers in the northern Sugd region. This is the most tangible effect, as is legislative change related to the marketing of cotton. The learning and knowledge-creation effects as a result of inter-organizational interactions within the project are also substantial. Client as well as non-client farmers have, through the technical assistance provided through the project company, managed to improve awareness in terms of their legal status. In addition, the technical assistance component of the project has served to improve productivity and the quality of the cotton grown. Despite indications of attitudinal changes within the action situations examined, there is no clear-cut evidence of trust effects at the institutional level. The results of empirical examination of the Tajik cotton industry to a large extent support the central thesis of the study.

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Assis, William Santos de. "A constru??o da representa??o dos trabalhadores rurais no sudeste paraense." Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, 2007. https://tede.ufrrj.br/jspui/handle/tede/684.

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This study has thought to investigate what sense the collective actions from the family farmers and theirs representative entities have assumed in the southeast of Par? in recent years. Therefore we took as the research universe the complex process of the struggle for the social and political recognition of the family farmers and theirs representative entities. Moving through the different processes that transformed the region social, economical and environmental way, we can confirm that the landholders and the family farmers on the southeast of Par? had imposed themselves as an important social actor for the regional development through an intense struggle for rights and a hard political activity of their representants. The permanent mobilisation of these actors and a variable repertoire of collective actions have made their position stronger in the regional social space and have influenced the political ways of the state, especially those directioned to the creation of the settlements.
Esta tese procurou compreender o sentido que as a??es coletivas dos agricultores familiares e de suas entidades representativas t?m assumido no sudeste paraense nos ?ltimos anos. Para tanto, tomamos como universo da pesquisa o complexo processo de luta pelo reconhecimento social e pol?tico dos agricultores familiares e suas entidades de representa??o. Percorrendo os diferentes processos que transformaram econ?mica, ambiental e socialmente a regi?o, podemos afirmar que os posseiros e os agricultores familiares do sudeste paraense se afirmaram como ator social de import?ncia para o desenvolvimento regional por meio de uma intensa luta por direitos e uma ?rdua atividade pol?tica de seus representantes. A mobiliza??o permanente desses atores e um variado repert?rio de a??o coletiva t?m fortalecido sua posi??o no espa?o social regional e influenciado os rumos da pol?tica do Estado, principalmente as direcionadas a cria??o de assentamentos.

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Shayamano, Innocent. "Trajectory from government-managed to farmer-managed smallholder irrigation and its effects on productivity, operation and maintenance: An analysis of Mamina Smallholder Irrigation Scheme in Zimbabwe." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/6189.

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Magister Philosophiae - MPhil (LAS) (Land and Agrarian Studies)
Government's decision to devolve irrigation management to farmers was partly influenced by international policy imperatives, which were propounded mainly by institutions associated with the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and the inability by the government to continue funding operation and maintenance costs. The central question of the study is to understand the effects of Irrigation Management Transfer (IMT) on productivity, operation and maintenance in the Mamina Irrigation Scheme. Interviews with various primary and secondary stakeholders that included the irrigators, local political leadership and locally-based agriculture extension officers were carried out. The interviews were aimed at getting an insight on land tenure, participation and representation of women, water and electricity supply system and pricing, effects of irrigation management arrangements on equity and productivity, understanding the irrigators' food security status, operation and maintenance arrangement after Irrigation Management Transfer (IMT). Findings of this study suggest that the existing governance arrangements have partly led to low crop productivity, increased water and electricity bill arrears, poor water distribution, change to uneconomic plot sizes, unsustainable increase in the number of irrigators, failure to organise for operation and maintenance. The key factors influencing the poor performance include poor collaboration, pumping system that utilised more electricity, inability of the irrigators to replace leaky pipes, failure of the irrigators to contribute towards electricity and water bills, failure of the irrigators to contribute towards operation and maintenance. The study identified nine challenges that affected the success of IMT. The challenges that lay at the heart of Mamina irrigation scheme were mainly caused by the poor irrigation technology design, pricing structure of electricity, water permit system, inequalities in water distribution, low gender participation and representation, non-availability of formal markets for certain crops, food insecurity, plot alloction and land disputes. Poverty analysis has shown that the irrigators' ability to escape from poverty or food insecurity is critically dependent upon their access to assets. Different assets are required to achieve different livelihood outcomes. The cycle of accumulation of utility bill arrears continued even after devolution because the same defective irrigation infrastructure was transferred to the irrigators. In the case of Mamina irrigation scheme, modernisation of the scheme was required to achieve different livelihood outcomes, but because this did not happen the recurrent utility bill arrears, low productivity and food insecurity continued to be a very serious challenge even after IMT.

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Kipping, Manfred. Die Bauern in Oberwiera: Landwirtschaft im Sächsisch-Thüringischen 1945 bis 1990. Beucha: Sax-Verlag, 1999.

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Robbins, P. Guide to collective marketing for small-scale farmers. Ibadan: International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, 2004.

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V, Karabanʹ G., and Borodovskiĭ S. V, eds. Pi͡a︡tiletka belorusskikh zemledelʹt͡s︡ev. Minsk: "Uradzhaĭ", 1986.

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Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina. Secera și buldozerul: Scornicești și Nucșoara : mecanisme de aservire a țăranului român. Iași: Polirom, 2002.

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Lifshit︠s︡, S. Istorii︠a︡ evreĭskogo kolkhoza v Sibiri: 1926-34 gg. Novosibirsk: Novosibirskoe knizhnoe izdatelʹstvo, 2008.

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Z, I͡A︡nchuk V., and Voronova L. K, eds. I͡U︡ridicheskiĭ spravochnik rabotnika selʹskogo khozi͡a︡ĭstva. Moskva: "I͡U︡rid. lit-ra", 1986.

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Governing irrigation systems in Nepal: Institutions, infrastructure, and collective action. Oakland, Calif: ICS Press, 1998.

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Hlavová, Viera. Kulak, triedny nepriatel̕: "Dedinský boháč" v kontexte kolektivizácie na Slovensku, 1949-1960. Bratislava: VEDA, 2010.

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Sinha, Saurabh. The Conditions for collective action: Land tenure and farmers' groups in the Rajasthan Canal Project. London: IIED, 1996.

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V dni velikogo pereloma: Istorii︠a︡ kollektivizat︠s︡ii, raskulachivanii︠a︡ i krestʹi︠a︡nskoĭ ssylki v Rossii (SSSR) po pisʹmam i vospominanii︠a︡m, 1929-1933 gody. Moskva: "Zvonit︠s︡a", 2002.

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Diehl, Jessica Ann. "Friends and Frenemies: Other Farmers as a Social Network Collective." In Grown in Delhi, 115–32. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26380-4_7.

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Srinivasan, Sharada, and Ben White. "Introduction: Young People’s Pathways into Farming." In Becoming A Young Farmer, 1–22. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15233-7_1.

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AbstractThe world’s crisis-ridden agriculture and food systems, besides huge environmental challenges, are facing a looming problem of generational renewal. Farming populations are ageing, many farmers appear to have no successor, and it is widely claimed that young people are not interested in farming; smallholder farming in its present state appears to be so unattractive to young people that they are turning away from agricultural futures. Will there be a new generation of farmers to take the place of today’s ageing farmers? What are the experiences of young people who are establishing themselves as farmers, and how are these pathways gendered? How can young farmers be supported to feed the world’s growing population? These are the questions that stimulated us and our colleagues in Canada, China, India, and Indonesia to join together in the multi-country research project, Becoming a Young Farmer: Young People’s Pathways into Farming in Four Countries. Each team used multi-sited case study research to bring to life the experiences of young farmers and would-be farmers, the various challenges they face, and important differences in their experiences both within and between the countries and study sites. By concentrating on women and men who have managed, or are trying, to set up their own farming livelihoods at a relatively early stage in their lives, we aimed to contribute both to theory by clarifying the generational dimension in the social reproduction of agrarian communities, and to policy by clarifying the barriers that young rural men and women confront in accessing land and other resources as well as the role of policies, institutions, and young people’s own individual and collective efforts in overcoming these barriers.

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Anomaly, Jonathan. "Antibiotics and Animal Agriculture: The Need for Global Collective Action." In Ethics and Drug Resistance: Collective Responsibility for Global Public Health, 297–308. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27874-8_18.

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Abstract The use of antibiotics in animal agriculture is steadily increasing, especially in developing countries. The European Union and a handful of developed countries have implemented policies to scale back the use of antibiotics, recognizing its role in the global rise of antibiotic resistance. But many farmers who raise animals live in poor countries without public health regulations, or work for large corporate entities that can move their operations to places with weak regulations. To minimize the careless use of antibiotics around the world, we need multi-lateral coordination between states on some common standards for the use of antibiotics in animals.

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Mudiwa, Benjamin, and Adulation Khayisano Ndlovu. "Smallholder Farmers’ Enterprising Tendencies and Collective Entrepreneurship Towards Increased Incomes and Poverty Elimination." In Sustainable Agricultural Marketing and Agribusiness Development, 51–59. GB: CABI, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781800622548.0006.

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Nagashima, Mami, Yoshiaki Nishikawa, Makoto Kawase, Kazuo Watanabe, and Kenji Irie. "Seed System Dynamics and Crop Diversity of Chinbaung in Myanmar." In Seeds for Diversity and Inclusion, 91–105. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89405-4_6.

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AbstractIn this field survey of seed system dynamics in Myanmar, the authors note that the country’s dominant system of traditional agriculture faces pressure from the introduction of ‘improved’ varieties and shifts in policy. However, farmers—from small and subsistence growers to large-scale rice producers—continue to raise indigenous species. One is chinbaung, the collective term for several varieties in the genus Hibiscus. The authors traced differences in chinbaung cultivation and use among places, and examined production systems in three villages in central arid zone, each sited in a geographically distinct locale. They found that a local festival popular with seed sellers has become a prime conduit for disseminating diverse genetic resources. Poe Yon, a guild of agricultural brokerage firms with hubs in cities across the country, meanwhile involves firms and farmers in a unique relationship that ensures broader distribution. Ultimately, the autonomy of farmers has enabled agrobiodiversity to thrive in Myanmar—a success, the authors note, that agricultural policymakers should heed.

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Diao, Xinshen, Thomas Reardon, Adam Kennedy, Ruth S. DeFries, Jawoo Koo, Bart Minten, Hiroyuki Takeshima, and Philip Thornton. "The Future of Small Farms: Innovations for Inclusive Transformation." In Science and Innovations for Food Systems Transformation, 191–205. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15703-5_10.

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AbstractThe number of people living in rural areas of low and middle-income countries is projected to increase in the coming decades. It is in the rural areas of these countries where a large majority of the world’s extreme poor reside. The livelihoods of two to three billion rural people depend on small farms. These small farms are responsible for the production and supply of a large portion of the calories feeding low- and middle-income countries. Small farms are also preservers of crops and associated biodiversity and with the right incentives can contribute to land stewardship. Small farms are diverse, and, hence, so are their associated challenges. We categorize small farms as commercial farms, small farms in transition and subsistence-oriented farms and highlight evidence-based innovations for the sustainable transformation of each type of small farm. Broadly, small farms face high transaction costs, lack collective action, and experience coordination failure in production and marketing. Lack of market access is also a major challenge. Investments in infrastructure, including those that support access to digital technologies, can improve farmers’ access to markets and incentives as well as foster growth in the midstream segments of the value chain that provide inputs, storage, processing, and logistics to small farms. Rural Non-Farm Employment (RNFE) is increasingly the main source of income for most small farmers and provides them with a risk diversification strategy and cash, both to purchase food and for farm investments to raise productivity, expand commercial activities, and produce higher-value products. Public investments and policies that facilitate growth of the agrifood system must pay more attention to creating enabling environments for the development of RNFE and strengthening the synergy between agriculture and RNFE in rural areas.

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Roschinsky, Romana, Sunil Simon, Pranab Ranjan Choudhury, Augustine Baroi, Manindra Malla, Sukleash George Costa, Valentine Denis Pankaj, Chintan Manandhar, Manfred Aichinger, and Maria Wurzinger. "Facilitating Climate Change Adaptation on Smallholder Farms Through Farmers’ Collective Led On-Farm Adaptive Research: The SAF-BIN Project." In Climate Change Management, 205–19. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28591-7_11.

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Swiderska, Krystyna, and Alejandro Argumedo. "Indigenous Seed Systems and Biocultural Heritage: The Andean Potato Park’s Approach to Seed Governance." In Seeds for Diversity and Inclusion, 57–77. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89405-4_4.

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AbstractIn the Indigenous worldview, seeds are both biological entities and embodiments of immateriality: knowledge, culture and the sacred. Indigenous seed systems thus codify the human connection to nature. Yet such ‘informal’ systems, whether developed by Indigenous peoples or small-scale farmers, barely surface in policy debates. Krystyna Swiderska and Alejandro Argumedo seek to redress the balance in this detailed study of the principles, values and practices of Indigenous seed systems and governance. While ranging over a number of case studies from Kyrgyzstan to Kenya, their prime focus is the Andean Potato Park in Cusco, Peru—a world centre of origin and domestication of crops such as the potato, quinoa and amaranth. Swiderska and Argumedo describe the Park’s collective and customary governance structure, and the ways of learning, exchange systems, seed banks and more developed by its Quechua farmers. To safeguard the vital Indigenous contribution to seed security and diversity, they conclude, a biocultural rights-based approach to seed governance is required and needs further support from policy reform, among other measures.

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Zhou, Ruohui. "The Influence of Farmers’ Perception of Interests and Fairness on their Willingness to Cooperate in the Exercise of Collective Ownership of Homestead." In Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, 515–32. Paris: Atlantis Press SARL, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-126-5_60.

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Bhamoriya, Vaibhav, and Anita Paul. "Markets that empower women farmers' collectives." In Farming Futures, 114–27. London: Routledge India, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003308034-7.

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Conference papers on the topic "Farmers' collective"

Raj, Rengalakshmi, Thamizoli Perumal, and Venkataraman Balaji. "MobiMOOC – A Practical Learning Tool to Promote Corporate Literacy for Effective Functioning of Farmer Producer Organizations." In Tenth Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning. Commonwealth of Learning, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.56059/pcf10.2639.

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Agriculture is the primary source of livelihood to more than 70% of rural households in India. Of the total farmers, 87% are small-holders with less than two hectares of land. Yet they play an imperative role in agriculture development and poverty reduction. They face constraints to adopt technologies, access credit services, buy inputs, get market links and achieve economies of scale. As a mitigation measure, in the recent past, Indian government has adopted the development of the Farmer Producer Organization (FPO) to collectivize farmers with the core objectives of doubling farmers income by reducing production costs, improving productivity, strengthening participation in the value-chain and foster business principles. As on date 10,000 FPOs are formed in India with an average 700 to 1000 shareholders and registered under the company’s act. However, there have been gaps and challenges in securing the active participation of the shareholders in contributing to the business. The recent impact study conducted in the state of Maharashtra pointed out that FPOs resulted in rising in price realization among 22% of members and 28% accessed inputs at a lesser cost. Although results are encouraging, promoting the participation of all members in business transactions is crucial to the growth of the company. The main barriers are limited understanding among shareholders about their roles, responsibilities, rights, operational structure, and governance of the organization. Members perceive the FPO as one more collective and thus they miss connecting the corporate dimension in their organization. Thus, promoting continuous learning among shareholders and leaders about the above-listed issues is necessary for their active participation in the company activities and achieving a successful business. // Against this backdrop, a corporate literacy course was designed and piloted using the MobiMOOC digital tool with 24 FPOs from five districts, having an average shareholder base of 1035, in Tamil Nadu, India. Contents are prepared based on the learner's needs assessment conducted and categorized into blocks, divided into units and chunks. The contents were disseminated to farmers as voice calls on simple mobile phones with options of retrieving (IVRS) and listening when convenient to individual farmers. In this paper we will discuss the experiences of pedagogy adopted, design and dissemination of contents, feedback of learners on how it supported in gaining and knowledge on FPOs, and how they practiced the learning in their FPOs businesses and its impacts. The paper will also touch upon the scope for replication of the learnings.

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Huang, Li, and Mi Zhou. "The Effect of Collective Forest Tenure Reform on Farmers' Forestry Income: Evidence from Investigation Data." In 2016 International Conference on Advances in Management, Arts and Humanities Science (AMAHS 2016). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/amahs-16.2016.37.

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ION, Raluca Andreea, Georgiana Raluca LADARU, Ionut Laurentiu PETRE, and Daniela POPA. "DETERMINANTS OF FARMERS’ WILLINGNESS TO JOIN SHORT CHAINS IN ROMANIA." In Competitiveness of Agro-Food and Environmental Economy. Editura ASE, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.24818/cafee/2022/11/03.

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Worldwide, smallholder farmers are encouraged to join short chains or to organize themselves into different forms of association. The main reasons are related to empower negotiation across the agro-food chains, market entry barriers, and reducing transaction costs. The objective of this paper is to identify the determinants of the farmers’ willingness to join a short supply chain. In order to achieving this goals, a survey has been carried out and the correlations between variables have been analyzed using the contingent coefficients. The results indicate that the probability of farmers’ membership in a short supply chain is determined by gender, domain of study, domain of activity and form of business organization and less by age, education and environment. The current study contributes to the literature by analyzing the determinants of short supply chain formation using the results of a survey and the finding may be used to underpin macroeconomic measures to finance collective actions in food supply chains.

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Filev, M. "Rural everyday life on the pages of the newspaper «Kolkhoznaya Pravda» (1950–1961): the experience of content analysis." In Historical research in the context of data science: Information resources, analytical methods and digital technologies. LLC MAKS Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.29003/m1802.978-5-317-06529-4/146-153.

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The article examines the publications of the local newspaper "Kolkhoznaya Pravda" as part of a microhistorical study of the kolkhoz "Bolshevik" in the Kaliningrad region. The aim of the content analysis was to identify the content of newspaper articles, the main priorities and the degree of adequacy of the reflection of rural reality in comparison with other sources. The author concludes that the life of collective farmers presented on the pages of the newspaper had little in common with reality.

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Noer, Irmayani, Sri Handayani, and Cholid Fatih. "Do Farmers Higher Benefit and Value Added from Collective Marketing? (The Case of Coffee Marketing in Lampung Province Indonesia)." In First International Conference on Applied Science and Technology (iCAST 2018). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200813.002.

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Saha, Manika, Stephen Lindsay, Jessica L. Watterson, Tom Bartindale, Delvin Varghese, Mallika Saha, Gillian C. Oliver, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, and Patrick Olivier. "Hearing Community Voices in HCI4D: Establishing Safe Places to Co-Create Counter-Collective Narratives with Women Farmers in Bangladesh." In CHI '24: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642532.

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Perapalanunt, Gorn, Jirat Viriyataranon, Chinnakrit Channok, Bhumibhat Imsamran, Ampan Laosunthara, Danai Jattawa, Thanathip Suwanasopee, et al. "Towards Data-Driven Dairy Farming in Thailand: A Preliminary Survey of Farmer’s Needs Based on In-Depth Interviews." In 13th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2022). AHFE International, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1002675.

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Currently, Thailand’s dairy industry faces five critical problems: aging farmers, shortage of laborers, lack of successors, low productivity, and oversupply of milk. The consensus among researchers and dairy farming experts is that the root cause of the problems is the lack of in-depth data (individual cow yield per milking). Without data, the growth of the dairy industry is stagnating, resulting in dairy farming as a career being perceived as economically unstable. Ultimately, this results in aging farmers, shortage of laborers, and lack of successors as more young farmers decide to pursue other career paths. Additionally, the lack of data prevents effective management of dairy farms and the dairy supply chain leading to two problems. Following the design-thinking approach, in-depth interview is chosen as the method of choice to empathize directly with the users and obtain insights regarding their problems and needs, especially those related to data management. The interviews were conducted with farmers from nine different farms selected based on their size, milking system, and location. The result showed that most selected farms do not record the individual cow yield per milking. Furthermore, milk collection centers require farmers to deliver milk within a specific time after it is milked. This further discourages data collection as it is time-consuming. Additionally, the lack of growth increased cow feed prices and diseases among many other factors further dissuade farmers from investing in technology to assist them in collecting the data. Therefore, the insights obtained from the interview will be the cornerstone in coming up with a practical solution to the current data problems.

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Ratan Bhardwaj, Mayank, Azal Fatima, Inavamsi Enaganti, and Yadati Narahari. "Incentive Compatible Mechanisms for Efficient Procurement of Agricultural Inputs for Farmers through Farmer Collectives." In COMPASS '22: ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3530190.3534842.

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Wahyurini, Endah, and Humam Santosa Utomo. "Creating Agricultural Product Innovations and Business Development: A Case in Farmer Women Group." In LPPM UPN "VETERAN" Yogyakarta International Conference Series 2020. RSF Press & RESEARCH SYNERGY FOUNDATION, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.31098/pss.v1i1.182.

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The Covid-19 pandemic implies a decrease in family income, resulting in social problems such as unemployment and poverty. This study aims to describe the process of creating product innovation carried out by groups of women farmers by using the land around the house to grow vegetables and the challenges they face. The study was conducted on a group of female farmers in Bantul, Yogyakarta using a qualitative analysis approach. Data collection techniques used observation, in-depth interviews, and focus group discussions. The results of this study indicate that the crisis conditions and knowledge play an important role in the creation of innovation in agriculture. The diverse knowledge of the members creates new product and service innovation ideas. Universities, local governments, and industry play a role in encouraging the creation of innovation and the formation of joint ventures so that members get economic benefits. The women farmer groups have grown their roles, not only as social organizations but also in business organizations.

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Takyiakwaa, Dorothy, Prince S. K. Tetteh, and Kofi Takyi Asante. Explaining the Weakness of Associational Life in Oil Palm Growing Communities in Southwestern Ghana. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), October 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/apra.2021.028.

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As the second most important industrial crop in Ghana, oil palm holds the potential of improving farmers’ livelihoods and alleviating rural poverty. For smallholder farmers, collective action through farmer-based organisations (FBOs) could provide a pathway to inclusive participation in agricultural commercialisation. There is ample evidence in the literature that collective action can help smallholders gain access to credit, improved inputs, or even networks of social support. Thus, collective action is widely recognised as a viable pathway out of poverty for the agrarian poor. However, our findings show that FBOs were either weak or non-existent. Indeed, we find that economic relations between farmers tend to be more individualised than one would expect to find in rural communities. This paper presents these findings, and explores why this is the case.

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Niño Eslava, Daniel, and Karine Gatellier. Collective Action to Support Family Farming in Colombia. Institute of Development Studies, November 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/core.2022.013.

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The Covid-19 pandemic has hit small- scale farmers, particularly women, very hard in Latin America. RIMISP – Latin American Center for Rural Development – has been conducting participatory research to mitigate the impact of Covid-19 on smallholder farmers in the department of Huila, in Colombia. The team has been working closely with the Secretariat of Agriculture and Mining of the Government of Huila to set up a Rural Dialogue Group to promote discussion on the project’s findings with local stakeholders. These discussions are helping to shape the local government’s agenda around these issues. The research team is also strengthening the capacity of small producer organisations to better access public programmes.

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Raitzer, David A., and Odbayar Batmunkh. Impact Evaluation of Support to Collective Action for Agricultural Value Chain Development in Nepal. Asian Development Bank, June 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.22617/wps220137-2.

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This study examines different forms of support for smallholders provided through farmers’ groups and cooperatives in Nepal. It finds that multidimensional support involving productive assets and training is especially effective. The results indicate that support for marketing is another particularly effective form of support. Of individual support elements, the study finds that training has the most substantial and significant effects and is crucial to the effectiveness of other measures. More focus on training and less on inputs alone would increase the impact of support for smallholders.

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Woodruffe, P. Rosebank: Cabbages, Horses and Science. Unitec ePress, September 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.34074/emed.010.

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In 1993, Neville Exler filmed on his Sony Handicam, the three Connell brothers on site at their market garden on Rosebank Road. This film was made just as these men, the last farmers on Rosebank Road were negotiating the sale of their farmland for development, and so ending the last chapter of Rosebank Road as the fruit and vegetable basket of Auckland. In 2012 this video was given to our research collective to convert to digital format.

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Research Institute (IFPRI), International Food Policy. Collective action for innovation and small farmer market access. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.2499/capriwp68.

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Latané, Annah, Jean-Michel Voisard, and Alice Olive Brower. Senegal Farmer Networks Respond to COVID-19. RTI Press, June 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3768/rtipress.2021.rr.0045.2106.

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This study leveraged existing data infrastructure and relationships from the Feed the Future Senegal Naatal Mbay (“flourishing agriculture”) project, funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by RTI International from 2015 to 2019. The research informed and empowered farmer organizations to track and respond to rural households in 2020 as they faced the COVID-19 pandemic. Farmer organizations, with support from RTI and local ICT firm STATINFO, administered a survey to a sample of 800 agricultural households that are members of four former Naatal Mbay–supported farmer organizations in two rounds in August and October 2020. Focus group discussions were conducted with network leadership pre- and post–data collection to contextualize the experience of the COVID-19 shock and to validate findings. The results showed that farmers were already reacting to the effects of low rainfall during the 2019 growing season and that COVID-19 compounded the shock through disrupted communications and interregional travel bans, creating food shortages and pressure to divert seed stocks for food. Food insecurity effects, measured through the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale and cereals stocks, were found to be greater for households in the Casamance region than in the Kaolack and Kaffrine regions. The findings also indicate that farmer networks deployed a coordinated response comprising food aid and access to personal protective equipment, distribution of short-cycle legumes and grains (e.g., cowpea, maize) and vegetable seeds, protection measures for cereals seeds, and financial innovations with banks. However, food stocks were expected to recover as harvesting began in October 2020, and the networks were planning to accelerate seed multiplication, diversify crops beyond cereals, improve communication across the network. and mainstream access to financial instruments in the 2021 growing season. The research indicated that the previous USAID-funded project had likely contributed to the networks’ COVID-19 resilience capacities by building social capital and fostering the new use of tools and technologies over the years it operated.

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Prysyazhna-Gapchenko, Julia. Еміграційні видання для селян: між фаховістю і політикою. Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, March 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.30970/vjo.2023.52-53.11720.

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In the article rare editions of magazine type are first probed for peasants which nursed in an environment the Ukrainian emigrants in the first post-war years on territory of the American area of occupation in Germany, and also in the USA. Separately paid regard to mision role of magazines in the association of the nebulized peasants round a desire to apply the obtained previous experience and knowledge on strange land, to present the world the Ukrainian peasantry as labour productive force and also round the idea of fight for independence, joining in with political activity of «old» parties and organizations which actively functioned in the environment of the Ukrainian emigrants. Outlined problem of magazines for peasants, and also sil’vetki of separate authors. In the repertoire of the Ukrainian emigrant press professional editions for peasants occupy an insignificant percent. But their appearance and functioning testify to the desire of certain part of wanderers – natives from villages, which got the special trade education, and also conscious group of peasants which tested tortures and humiliations as a result of violent collectivization, to unite the efforts for future effective economic labour in Ukraine, as emigration was at that time examined in their environment as the temporal phenomenon. De autre part, the creators of this periodicals did not hide the purpose of distribution of the purchased knowledges and experience in the countries of migration. Publishers at mediation of magazines formed soil for creation of political party, which would unite the unions of the Ukrainian peasants-emigrants (farmers), which got organized in camps for the moved persons. Soon, in 1948, party of liberal direction – Union of earths of cathedral Ukraine is was created in Ashaffenburzi (Germany) and on convention in New Wales (in 1950) renamed on Peasant party. Greater part of problem of magazines «the Ukrainian owner», «Ukrainian peasant», «Rural owner», was inferior preparation to realization of this emigrant project. A separate place belongs to the magazine «the Ukrainian manager», the release of which, without regard to influences of mel’nikivskogo wing OUN, managed from the first to the last number to dissociate oneself from a policy, save popular scientific status agrarian-economic direction. Even publications the main theme of number is violated in which, for example, criticism of a collective farm system the USSR or analysis of economic problems of socialism, scientific arguments is marked and by the unprejudice of author. Functioning in the environment of emigration of «rural» periodicals is dictated a desire to combine effort peasants for a maintenance and increase of professional level, to send them in the river-bed of fight for liberation from under the burden of persecutors of the Ukrainian village.

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Alemu, Dawit, and Abebaw Assaye. Impact of COVID-19 on Food Systems and Rural Livelihoods in Fogera Plain, Ethiopia – Round 1 Report. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), October 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/apra.2020.002.

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This report presents an early assessment of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on agricultural commercialisation, food and nutrition security, labour and employment, and poverty and well-being in rural Ethiopia. Data was collected from a stratified random sample of 107 households (23 female- and 84 male-headed). Respondents were drawn from a subset of households interviewed in a 2018 APRA survey of smallholder rice farmers in five kebeles (villages) in the Fogera Plain area of Amhara Region. The COVID-19 household survey data is complemented by data from 23 key informant interviews conducted in the kebeles. The data collection for this COVID-19 study will be carried out over three rounds. This report presents insights obtained from the first round conducted during late June/early July 2020.

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Dutta, Deborah, and Amrita Hazra. ‘There is a Bee in my Balcony’: A Guide to Growing Food Anywhere You Live Using Illustrated Narratives of Diverse Urban Farms. Indian Institute for Human Settlements, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.24943/tesf0305.2023.

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Food is a fundamental aspect of our everyday life, with deep connections to sustainability and social justice. Unfortunately, our current conventional industrial food systems form a core part of the ecological crisis. To engage with these systems, we require a radical transformation of our relationship with food, acknowledging that we as humans are also a part of the natural environment. Recognising the interdependence of agrobiodiversity, soil health and indigenous knowledge about nutrition and well-being requires the collective participation of diverse socio-economic groups at the local level.

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Vega-Araújo, José, Miquel Muñoz Cabré, Yismary Ramirez, and Reinaldo Lerma. Enabling factors of social acceptance of wind energy projects in La Guajira. Stockholm Environment Institute, January 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.51414/sei2024.001.

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In Colombia, increasing renewable energy generation requires a special emphasis on the department of La Guajira due to its world-class wind resources. According to the Mining-Energy Planning Unit (UPME), La Guajira is projected to have up to 45 wind farms by 2034, most located within the collective territory of the Wayuu Indigenous people. The authors of this report identify enabling factors of social acceptance of wind energy projects in this context and, more broadly, of a just energy transition in La Guajira. The findings represent insights gained from activities conducted during 2023, namely a workshop held by SEI and the University of La Guajira in the municipality of Uribia, La Guajira, with members of the Wayuu people and representatives of the municipal public sector. The research also included extensive fieldwork in communities surrounding wind farm locations and associated infrastructure, such as transmission lines, and a total of 45 semi-structured interviews with various relevant stakeholders, including developers, academia, civil society and the national and regional public sector. This report opens with the relevant context, including facets of the Colombian electricity sector, La Guajira department and the right to free, prior and informed consultation (FPIC). The authors then describe eight enabling factors of social acceptance of wind energy in La Guajira that they identified during the research, closing with their main conclusions.

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