This book brings together research on cooperative management from the agriculture and food
sector. By examining issues from food-policy trade and environmental perspectives and
presenting both methodological and empirical work it allows readers to develop a deeper
understanding of collective management processes and cooperative initiatives and provides a
theoretical background for promoting research in the various sectors in which market
communities operate. On a more global level the offers insights into how to building powerful
tools for decision making particularly at a time when agriculture and the economy alike are
affected by a volatile political social and economical environment and are forced to undergo
major structural changes.
