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| Vakoufaris, Hristos; Kizos, Thanasis; Spilanis, Ioannis; Koulouri, Maria; Zacharaki, Anna. |
| In the last twenty years Greece has witnessed the emergence and establishment of women’s cooperatives, a form of productive agricultural cooperatives. This paper explores their importance and their contribution to local development. Evidence is presented for an island region, the North Aegean. Personal interviews, using structured questionnaires, were conducted with the chairwomen of all the region’s cooperatives in order to obtain an insight into their structure and dynamics. According to the findings of this study, women’s cooperatives are characterized by substantial potential on the one hand and by serious drawbacks on the other. The economic performance of the cooperatives is satisfactory, while the use of local resources and ‘know how’ contribute to... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Women’s cooperatives; North Aegean; Local development; Community/Rural/Urban Development. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/58681 |
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| Koutsou, Stavriani; Iakovidou, Olga; Gotsinas, Nicolas. |
| Women’s cooperatives are the most original type of cooperatives in Greece in terms of planning, organization and management, aimed at increasing their family income and upgrading their social status. In most cases, national or European Union projects financed the cooperatives. The aim of this article is to examine the women’s cooperatives and identify the factors that exhorted farm-women to join them, the effects of such a decision on their lives, as well as the problems they faced during their operation. Forty out of seventy-one cooperatives were examined by means of a structured questionnaire in February 2000. The results indicate that the participation of farm-women in these cooperatives provided them a source of income and gave them independence, power... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Women’s cooperatives; Women’s agrotourist cooperatives; Farmwomen; Greece.; Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/59774 |
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