O que faz o sucesso das cooperativas agrícolas nos Países Baixos? 41 holds great promises for improving the efficiency, productivity and sustainability of agricultural production, farmers are concerned about privacy and transparency issues, and about becoming dependent on powerful platform owners. By mediating between data providers and data users, for instance by setting rules and standards for data contracts, JoinData can take away the concerns of farmers and facilitate the smooth data interchange among multiple suppliers and users. A last example of organisational innovation in the Dutch agrifood sector are multistakeholder cooperatives that bring together different actors with a stake in land and soil use, in protecting biodiversity, or in providing nutritious food products. In these cooperatives, farmers collaborate with other societal actors, including businesses, NGOs, and governmental agencies, to seek solutions for grand societal challenges such as climate change, food security, and biodiversity losses. In The Netherlands, agricultural cooperatives have existed for almost 150 years, and have shown to be resilient organisations that work to the benefit of farmers and society as a whole. While the number of cooperatives has strongly decreased over the years, their position in the market, as measured by market share, has not declined, allowing them to continue providing the economic benefits to its farmer-members. Over the last decades, rural areas have seen the appearance of new cooperatives which address grand societal challenges or seize new market opportunities. While the cooperative model has a successful past, its versatility, resilience, and legitimacy predict that it will also have a bright future. References Bijman, J., C. Iliopoulos, K.J. Poppe, C. Gijselinckx, K. Hagedorn, M. Hanisch, G.W.J. Hendrikse, R. Kühl, P. Ollila, P. Pyykkönen, and G. v.d. Sangen (2012). Support for Farmers’ Cooperatives: Final Report, Wageningen, The Netherlands, Wageningen UR. Available at http://edepot.wur.nl/245008. Bijman, J., G. Hendrikse, and A. van Oijen (2013). ‘Accommodating Two Worlds in One Organisation: Changing Board Models in Agricultural Cooperatives’, Managerial and Decision Economics, 34(3-5), pp. 204-217. Bijman, J., M. Hanisch, and G. van der Sangen (2014). ‘Shifting Control? The Changes Of Internal Governance In Agricultural Cooperatives In The EU’, Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 85(4), pp. 641-661. Bijman, J. (2018). Exploring the Sustainability of the Cooperative Model in Dairy: The Case of the Netherlands. Sustainability, 10(7), 2498. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10072498 Cook, M. L. (1995). ‘The Future of U.S. Agricultural Cooperatives: A Neo-Institutional Approach’, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 77(December), pp. 1153-1159. Hansmann, H. (1996). The ownership of enterprise, Cambridge, MA / London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Van Bekkum, O.F., G. van Dijk and P. van Boekel (1997). Agricultural co-operatives in the European Union: trends and issues on the eve of the 21st century, Assen, Van Gorcum. Van der Sangen, G.J.H. (2013). ‘Chapter 25. The Netherlands’, in: D. Cracogna, A. Fici and H. Henry (eds.), International Handbook of Cooperative Law, Berlin/Heidelberg, Springer, pp. 541-561.
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