Producer Organisations in an Export-Oriented Value Chain: What Motivates Small-Scale Farmers in Kosovo to Collaborate?

IF 1.2 Q3 GEOGRAPHY
Theresa Bäuml, J. Möllers, T. Dufhues, A. Wolz, D. Traikova
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Abstract

Abstract Producer organisations bear great potential to link small-scale farmers to markets. In post-communist economies, historically negative attitudes towards cooperatives are blamed as barriers to collaboration, but little is known about the broader range of motives to (not) cooperate. We use a structural equation model to analyse cooperation intentions in Kosovo’s emerging export-oriented raspberry sector. In this context, negative images surrounding cooperation seem to belong to the past. Widespread positive attitudes towards joining producer organisations were driven by the wish to facilitate farm commercialisation. The most substantial influence on cooperation intentions came from the norms passed on by the family and farm advisory services. Yet, results beyond the econometric model show that a lack of information and knowledge and lack of institutional trust, mainly doubts about the feasibility of producer organisations, could hinder their spread and success.
出口导向价值链中的生产者组织:科索沃小规模农民合作的动机是什么?
摘要生产者组织具有将小规模农民与市场联系起来的巨大潜力。在后共产主义经济体中,历史上对合作社的负面态度被认为是合作的障碍,但人们对(不)合作的更广泛动机知之甚少。我们使用结构方程模型来分析科索沃新兴的出口导向型树莓行业的合作意向。在这种背景下,围绕合作的负面形象似乎已经成为过去。促进农业商业化的愿望推动了人们对加入生产者组织的广泛积极态度。对合作意向的最大影响来自家庭和农场咨询服务机构传递的规范。然而,计量经济学模型之外的结果表明,缺乏信息和知识以及缺乏机构信任,主要是对生产者组织可行性的怀疑,可能会阻碍其传播和成功。
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来源期刊
CiteScore
2.90
自引率
12.50%
发文量
29
审稿时长
39 weeks
期刊介绍: European Countryside scope: ecology of rural landscape, rural sociology, demography and gender, multi-functional rural development, agriculture and other branches, rural geography, rural borderland, rural and agro-tourism, rural settlement, small towns as centers of rural micro-regions, rural planning and architecture.
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