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Yu, L. Cooperative Agriculture. Encyclopedia. Available online: https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/62115 (accessed on 12 November 2026).
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Cooperative Agriculture

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Cooperative agriculture refers to agricultural production and farm management arrangements in which farmers coordinate their activities, pool resources, share knowledge, and undertake collective actions to achieve common production, economic, and environmental objectives. Such cooperation may involve joint use of agricultural machinery, shared labor and infrastructure, coordinated cultivation and livestock management, collective purchasing of inputs, and collaborative processing and marketing of agricultural products [1][2]. It can take different organizational forms, ranging from informal farmer groups and machinery-sharing arrangements to formal producer organizations, agricultural cooperatives, and community-supported farming initiatives [2][3]. Through coordinated resource allocation and knowledge exchange, cooperative agriculture can reduce individual production costs, improve access to technologies and services, strengthen farmers' capacity to manage risks, and facilitate the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices [1][3]. Its effectiveness depends on trust, participation, institutional arrangements, and the capacity to coordinate collective decisions. Cooperative agriculture therefore represents a collaborative approach to organizing agricultural production rather than a single legally defined organizational model.

farmer cooperation collective action agricultural development resource sharing farm management sustainable agriculture
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  1. Celina Slimi; Magali Prost; Marianne Cerf; Lorène Prost; Exchanges among farmers’ collectives in support of sustainable agriculture: From review to reconceptualization. J. Rural Stud. 2021, 83, 268-278. [CrossRef]
  2. Juliana Lutz; Barbara Smetschka; Nelson Grima; Farmer Cooperation as a Means for Creating Local Food Systems—Potentials and Challenges. Sustainability 2017, 9, 925. [CrossRef]
  3. Wanglin Ma; Marco A. Marini; Dil B. Rahut; Farmers’ organizations and sustainable development: An introduction. Ann. Public Coop. Econ. 2023, 94, 683-700. [CrossRef]
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