 Différenciation et expansion de la coopération agricole dans l'économie agro-alimentairePh. Nicolas Économie rurale, 1977, vol. 121, issue 1, 44-55 Abstract: [eng] Differentiation and expansion of the cooperative movement in agri-business - This article concerns the role of agricultural cooperatives in agri-business especially in France and by way of comparison in Sweden, the USA and in Canada. At present in all these countries there is a distinct increase in cooperatives which is more marked in the farming and food sector than other firms. These cooperatives have industrial and commercial activities in a capitalist system and yet remain organically linked to a type of farming made up mainly of family farms. This results in specialization according to the different activities and in fewer possibilities of accumulating capital because of their particular obligations and constraints. . This is why we attempt to find causes for the present expansion not only in certain forms of finance granted by the state in exchange for the specific functions fulfilled by cooperatives in agri-business but also in a new form of organization within the regional and national cooperative network, in the forming of innovation groups on the international level, in new forms of funding, and finally in a certain tendency for other firms, national and multinational, to withdraw from certain branches of the food industry. . If agricultural cooperatives manage to set up the inter-cooperative (both interbranch and international) relations they are at present trying to establish, shall we see the cooperative movement and more particularly the cooperative groups increase still more the part of agri-business they already control ? Are we as the ACI (International Cooperative Alliance) believes, witnessing a new way of organizing things ? Their present expansion and this new outlook cannot avoid causing conflict with the representatives of the firms that have to submit to the ordinary rules governing firms. [fre] Cet article traite du rôle de la Coopération agricole dans l'économie agro-alimentaire, principalement en France, et plus succinctement, à titre de comparaison, en Suède, aux Etats-Unis et au Canada. . On observe actuellement dans tous ces pays, une poussée assez nette des sociétés coopératives, dont la croissance au sein des industries agricoles et alimentaires est plus rapide, que celle des autres entreprises. . Or, tout en ayant des activités industrielles et commerciales en régime capitaliste, ces sociétés conservent des relations organiques avec une agriculture principalement formée d'exploitations familiales. Il en résulte une spécialisation selon les activités et une moindre capacité d'accumulation du capital, liées à des charges et des contraintes particulières. . Nous recherchons les causes de l'expansion actuelle : non seulement dans certains transferts de l'Etat, accordés en contrepartie des fonctions spécifiques assumées par les coopératives dans l'économie agro-alimentaire, mais aussi dans une nouvelle organisation interne des appareils coopératifs régionaux et nationaux, dans la formation de groupes innovateurs au champ d'action international, dans de nouvelles formes de financement, et enfin dans une certaine tendance des autres entreprises, nationales et multinationales, à se « désengager » de certains secteurs de l'industrie alimentaire. Date: 1977 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:prs:recoru:ecoru_0013-0559_1977_num_121_1_2513 Access Statistics for this article Économie rurale is currently edited by Société française d'économie rurale More articles in Économie rurale from Programme National Persée |
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