Konferenzbeitrag

Centralized versus individual: Governance of farmer professional cooperatives in China

Based on a national representative survey conducted in 2009, this study shows that the decision-making within Farmer Professional Cooperatives (FPCs) in China is decentralized to individual farmers. However, there is a trend that the decision rights of farming are decomposed to marketing, production and input procuring. While the rights for production and input procuring stay with family farmers, marketing rights tend to be collectivized. Compared to FPCs having external initiating sources, FPCs initiated by farmers are more inclined to introduce centralized decision-making. The governance structure of FPCs in transition China presents hybrid forms of both hierarchy and family farming.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: IAMO Forum 2010, Halle (Saale), June 16 - 18, 2010: Institutions in Transition - Challenges for New Modes of Governance

Classification
Wirtschaft
Transactional Relationships; Contracts and Reputation; Networks
Agricultural Markets and Marketing; Cooperatives; Agribusiness
Agricultural Policy; Food Policy
Subject
Farmer
Cooperatives
Governance
China

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Jia, Xiangping
Hu, Yamei
Hendrikse, George
Huanga, Jikun
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO)
(where)
Halle (Saale)
(when)
2010

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Object type

  • Konferenzbeitrag

Associated

  • Jia, Xiangping
  • Hu, Yamei
  • Hendrikse, George
  • Huanga, Jikun
  • Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO)

Time of origin

  • 2010

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