Can the small-scale cooperatives in Serbia be successful organic producers?
This thesis is part of the evaluation of a development project in Serbia, where cooperatives have been formed in order to make the members support themselves trough organic farming. The purpose of the paper has been to find out if the goal of making the current members and potential new members able...
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SLU/Agrosystems (until 121231)
2009
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| Sumario: | This thesis is part of the evaluation of a development project in Serbia, where cooperatives
have been formed in order to make the members support themselves trough organic farming.
The purpose of the paper has been to find out if the goal of making the current members and
potential new members able to support themselves on what the cooperatives produce, has
been reached. The goal is to be considered as partly fulfilled; according to the last annual
report from Odraz, “the registered cooperatives have become fully functional and stable and
they have started making some modest profit.”…“the majority of the beneficiaries think that
they are self-reliant”…. In order to find out what is required in order to fulfil the established
goal entirely, (for example there are no reports of that new members have been recruited, and
the fact that most, not all, current members of the cooperatives (the beneficiaries) say that
they are supplied from what the cooperatives produce), I have tried to identify the conditions
which the cooperatives operate under. The basis of the paper consists of a literature review,
interviews with the directors of the cooperatives, a questionnaire dealing with the business
environment and various external sources in Serbia.
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