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DocumentCooperatives in the CIS and Georgia: Overview of Legislation
Policy Studies on Rural Transition No. 2014-2
2014Also available in:
No results found.Cooperatives in agriculture and in other sectors are usually created by grassroots users to overcome market failures, which are manifested in unwillingness of private business entrepreneurs to provide services in areas that they judge unprofitable or, alternatively, in unfair exploitation of the users by private businesses through monopolistic practices. Best-practice world experience suggests that farmers’ service cooperatives provide the most effective way of improving the access of small farm ers to market services in both situations. International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) defines a cooperative as an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democratically controlled enterprise (ICA, 2013). The persons who voluntarily unite to form a cooperative are usually referred to as members or member-owners. In this study, the cooperative laws in all 12 CIS countries (including Ge orgia) are reviewed and their compatibility with universal cooperative principles and actual practices in the West is examined. -
Book (stand-alone)An overview of cooperatives in Israel
Policy Studies on Rural Transition No. 2013-5
2013Also available in:
No results found.This paper was prepared within the “Cooperatives and their alternatives” component of the Agrarian Structures Initiative (ASI) which a regional program of FAO in Europe and Central Asia. From the late 1970's agricultural cooperatives in Israel have undergone many structural changes, becoming decentralized, individualized and specialized. Specifically, agricultural service cooperatives have become more flexible, vertically integrated and market oriented. -
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