The United Nations International Year of Co-operatives, 2012, spurred co-operatives on six
continents to share with each other and the world the potential for co-operative enterprises …

As economic crises, growing inequality and climate change prompt a global debate on the
meaning and trajectory of development, increasing attention is focusing on'social and …

“This is not only the best environmental sociology text I've used, but it is the best text of any
type I've used in college-level teaching.”–Dr. Cliff Brown, University of New Hampshire Join …

A rallying cry to link the food justice movement to broader social justice debates The United
States is a nation of foodies and food activists, many of them progressives, and yet their …

Community developers have long understood the importance of local participation in the
events and processes that shape communities. Effective, democratic, and people-and-place …

This paper summarizes and evaluates recent research on food product quality and
differentiation, both key dimensions of modern food markets. We emphasize the implications …

The variety of solutions to organize economic activities is striking, and underexplored. This
paper proposes a framework that combines transaction cost and relational contracts models …

In recent years, companies have adapted their business models towards a digital format
whereby their internal organization, development, production and logistics processes have …

This study explores rural US crime patterns with a focus on social capital. We use a
triangulation of three core theories of crime including social disorganization, anomie/strain …

We build a theoretical model to study a market structure with a marketing cooperative and
direct selling, in which many farmers are members of an agricultural marketing cooperative …