The Interorganizational Challenge of Agricultural Reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Martin Eric and Fahey Brian
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Martin Eric: Eastern Connecticut State University, Department of Business Administration

South East European Journal of Economics and Business, 2009, vol. 4, issue 2, 7-22

Abstract: The case study reported below examines USAID's "Linking Agricultural Markets with Producers" program. This program complemented Bosnia and Herzegovina's overall sustainable agriculture policies. Implementing organizations quickly recognized that sustainability must be achieved not only from an environmental perspective, but in the interorganizational domain as well. Public, private and nonprofit players had to develop the social, economic and political infrastructure required for sustainable agricultural projects to succeed. These institutional changes were at times more difficult than the sustainable agriculture policies and practices they supported. Framed within LAMP's identification of constraints and proposed solutions for agricultural reform, we explored the interorganizational linkages required for success. We identified three distinct types: 1) those within the international community, 2) those within the local community and 3) those between international and local organizations. The case illustrates the institutional and managerial obstacles to and opportunities for implementing sustainable development reforms in transition settings.

Keywords: international development assistance; interorganizational cooperation; agriculture; international development assistance; interorganizational cooperation; agriculture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.2478/v10033-009-0010-7

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