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Doctor of Philosophy / Department of Agricultural Economics / Allen M. Featherstone / This dissertation focuses on measuring the efficiency and productivity for agricultural cooperatives in the United States using the data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach. Economic measures such as cost efficiency, economies of scale, and economies of scope are measured by estimating a cost frontier in a multiproduct framework. Productivity growth is measured using the biennial Malmquist index approach. The cost frontier is the basis for calculating cost efficiency, economies of scale, and economies of scope as the cost frontier estimation in a multiproduct approach describes how cost changes as output changes. The estimates of economies of scale and scope have important implications for agricultural cooperatives because most of the cooperatives sell more than one product. Understanding the impact of changing output levels or mixes on the cost structure is helpful to improve the performance of cooperatives. Further, scope economies estimate the percentage of cost savings through product diversification in a multiproduct firm. The trade-off between cost efficiency and multiproduct scale economies allows the estimation of whether a higher percentage of cost can be eliminated by becoming cost efficient or changing the scale of operations. The economic measures are estimated using a single cost frontier (multi-year frontier) and annual cost frontiers. Multiproduct economies of scale and economies of scope exist indicating that increasing scale and product diversification can reduce cost for agricultural cooperatives. The mean values of product-specific economies of scale for all outputs are close to one indicating that cooperatives are operating close to constant returns to scale. The comparison between cost efficiency and scale economies suggests that smaller cooperatives can save a higher percentage of cost by increasing the scale of operations rather than just becoming cost efficient. Because larger incentives exist for small cooperatives to increase scale, mergers will likely continue until economies of scale are exhausted in the industry. Annual estimates show that agricultural cooperatives have become less cost efficient over time, but economies of scale and economies of scope remain consistent across years. Many agricultural cooperatives face economies of scale indicating that variable returns to scale as opposed to constant returns to scale is the appropriate technology for modeling agricultural farm marketing and supply cooperatives. Further, the Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS) test and two sample t-test are used to examine whether economic measures estimated from a single frontier and annual frontiers are statistically different. The KS test and t-test indicate that economic measures obtained from the single frontier are statistically different from those measures calculated from annual frontiers. This indicates that the cost frontier has shifted over time. Productivity growth of agricultural cooperatives is estimated using the biennial Malmquist productivity index (BMI) under variable returns to scale over the period 2005 to 2014. The BMI avoids numerical infeasibilities under variable returns to scale compared to traditional methods. The BMI is decomposed into efficiency change and technical change to evaluate the sources of productivity growth. Overall, agricultural cooperatives gained 34% cumulative productivity growth during the decade allocated by -2% and 37% cumulative technical efficiency change and technical change over the study period. Technical change was the major source of productivity growth rather than efficiency change. Cooperatives can achieve higher productivity by increasing managerial efficiency and by investing in technology.

Origination of the uniform agricultural cooperatives ("UAC") and their legal basis Abstract: The aim of this thesis was to map in detail the process of the formation of unified agricultural cooperatives. Furthermore, I have tried to characterize the basic features that played a role in the process of the formation of unitary agricultural cooperatives. In my thesis, I proceed chronologically from the publication of the Kosice Government Programme to the government's declaration of 15 September 1953. The first part of my work is devoted to the post-war period. In the introduction of the first part I try to outline the situation that prevailed in the then Czechoslovakia and I accentuate any mention of cooperatives. I then turn to the so-called six agricultural acts and the Hradec programme. The second part of my work is devoted to the events from the victory in February until the adoption of the law on unified agricultural cooperatives. This section begins by mentioning the first post-February government program statement and the agricultural laws passed on March 21, 1948. Next, I present the first post-war agricultural cooperatives concept. Much space is then devoted to the Information Bureau Resolution of June 28, 1948, and the subsequent creation of the conditions for the unified agricultural cooperatives...

Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-10T17:30:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2014-02-25 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / In the 2000s, the Brazilian agricultural cooperatives experienced a process of horizontal and vertical expansion, which guaranteed highlight for the sector in national economic scenario. This growth occurred at different scales, in national, state and regional level. Thus, this dissertation seeks to analyze this process of growth in the recent period, with emphasis on the development of agricultural cooperatives in the Southwest of Paraná. The hypothesis of the research is that among the factors that conditioned such performance, federal policies for rural and agribusiness credit, were central to productive restructuring of cooperatives, which ensured the growth of the sector after 2003, moment of change important political and economic conditions in the country. The official credit in the period of modernization of agriculture, was the principal agent of development of cooperatives, and its scarcity in the nineties, has made the sector faced a time of recession, watching the rest of the national economy. In more recent context, funding policies regained its importance in the government plan, with increased resources and creation of sectorial and regional development programs. In the case of Southwest, the credit allowed for investment by cooperatives, especially an increase in production capacity, storage, productivity and agroindustrial integration. / Nos anos 2000, o cooperativismo agropecuário brasileiro vivenciou um processo de expansão horizontal e vertical, o que garantiu destaque para o setor no cenário econômico nacional. Esse crescimento ocorreu em diferentes escalas, a nível nacional, estadual e regional. Nesse sentido, esta Dissertação buscou analisar esse processo de crescimento no período recente, dando ênfase na evolução das cooperativas agropecuárias do Sudoeste do Paraná. A hipótese da pesquisa é que dentre os fatores que condicionaram tal desempenho, as políticas federais de crédito rural e agroindustrial foram centrais para a reestruturação produtiva das cooperativas, o que garantiu o crescimento do setor após 2003, momento de mudanças políticas e econômicas importantes no país. O crédito oficial no período de modernização da agricultura foi o principal agente do desenvolvimento das cooperativas, e sua escassez nos anos noventa fez com que o setor enfrentasse um momento de recessão, acompanhando o restante da economia nacional. No contexto mais recente, as políticas de financiamento retomaram sua importância no plano de governo, com elevação dos recursos e criação de programas de desenvolvimento setorial e regional. No caso do Sudoeste, o crédito possibilitou os investimentos das cooperativas, principalmente no aumento da capacidade produtiva, da armazenagem, da produtividade e da integração agroindustrial.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-10T17:30:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Wilian.pdf: 5513676 bytes, checksum: c44c1b5890d638a4a988280a5dc2ea6d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-02-25 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / In the 2000s, the Brazilian agricultural cooperatives experienced a process of horizontal and vertical expansion, which guaranteed highlight for the sector in national economic scenario. This growth occurred at different scales, in national, state and regional level. Thus, this dissertation seeks to analyze this process of growth in the recent period, with emphasis on the development of agricultural cooperatives in the Southwest of Paraná. The hypothesis of the research is that among the factors that conditioned such performance, federal policies for rural and agribusiness credit, were central to productive restructuring of cooperatives, which ensured the growth of the sector after 2003, moment of change important political and economic conditions in the country. The official credit in the period of modernization of agriculture, was the principal agent of development of cooperatives, and its scarcity in the nineties, has made the sector faced a time of recession, watching the rest of the national economy. In more recent context, funding policies regained its importance in the government plan, with increased resources and creation of sectorial and regional development programs. In the case of Southwest, the credit allowed for investment by cooperatives, especially an increase in production capacity, storage, productivity and agroindustrial integration. / Nos anos 2000, o cooperativismo agropecuário brasileiro vivenciou um processo de expansão horizontal e vertical, o que garantiu destaque para o setor no cenário econômico nacional. Esse crescimento ocorreu em diferentes escalas, a nível nacional, estadual e regional. Nesse sentido, esta Dissertação buscou analisar esse processo de crescimento no período recente, dando ênfase na evolução das cooperativas agropecuárias do Sudoeste do Paraná. A hipótese da pesquisa é que dentre os fatores que condicionaram tal desempenho, as políticas federais de crédito rural e agroindustrial foram centrais para a reestruturação produtiva das cooperativas, o que garantiu o crescimento do setor após 2003, momento de mudanças políticas e econômicas importantes no país. O crédito oficial no período de modernização da agricultura foi o principal agente do desenvolvimento das cooperativas, e sua escassez nos anos noventa fez com que o setor enfrentasse um momento de recessão, acompanhando o restante da economia nacional. No contexto mais recente, as políticas de financiamento retomaram sua importância no plano de governo, com elevação dos recursos e criação de programas de desenvolvimento setorial e regional. No caso do Sudoeste, o crédito possibilitou os investimentos das cooperativas, principalmente no aumento da capacidade produtiva, da armazenagem, da produtividade e da integração agroindustrial.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-10T17:30:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Leticia_Casagrande.pdf: 3027045 bytes, checksum: e2060167a0e2c89f6fc2e1405e6490c5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-06-26 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Tried to analyze this work the formation and expansion of COASUL - Cooperativa Agroindustrial, between the years 1969 and 2012 for both, a split was structured in three dissertation chapters, and the first one is a general historical overview of the formation of cooperatives, both worldwide, national and regional, seeking to identify where the roots of the cooperative movement, especially the agricultural sector, in each of these scales. In the second chapter worked with the Brazilian economic outlook from the 1960s, showing the different government policies and the reflection of this for the development of agricultural cooperatives. In the third chapter we sought to examine the emergence and development of COASUL over the years, drawing a parallel cooperative with the national economy. It was observed that the trajectory of the cooperative was already being written with the economic cycles of the country. The first years of activity until the 1980s the COASUL underwent an expansion process, assisting in the modernization of agriculture in southwestern Paraná. During the 1990s suffered from the crisis in obtaining credit situation outlined from the 2000s to new political and economic landscape of Brazil. / Procurou-se analisar no vigente trabalho a formação e a expansão da COASUL - Cooperativa Agroindustrial, entre os anos de 1969 e 2012. Para tanto, estruturou-se uma dissertação dividida em três capítulos. O primeiro deles faz um apanhado histórico geral sobre a formação das cooperativas, tanto em escala mundial, quanto nacional e regional, buscando identificar as raízes do cooperativismo, principalmente do ramo agropecuário, em cada uma destas escalas. No segundo capítulo trabalhou-se com o panorama econômico brasileiro a partir dos anos de 1960, evidenciando-se as diferentes políticas de governo e o reflexo disso para o desenvolvimento das cooperativas agropecuárias. No terceiro capítulo buscou-se analisar o surgimento e desenvolvimento da COASUL ao longo dos anos, traçando um paralelo da cooperativa com a economia nacional. Observou-se que a trajetória da já referida cooperativa foi influenciada pelos ciclos econômicos. Dos primeiros anos de atividade até a década de 1980 a COASUL passou por um processo de expansão, auxiliando na modernização da agricultura no Sudoeste do Paraná. Durante a década de 1990 sofreu com a crise na obtenção do crédito, situação contornada a partir dos anos 2000 com novo panorama político e econômico do Brasil.

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