@article{Ševarlić:161799,
      recid = {161799},
      author = {Ševarlić, Miladin M. and Nikolić, Marija M.},
      title = {AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVES – EXAMPLES OF GOOD PRACTISE IN  THE WORLD AND SERBIA},
      address = {2013-09},
      number = {1543-2016-132208},
      pages = {14},
      year = {2013},
      abstract = {Agricultural cooperatives play an important role in the  development of the agriculture and rural areas, especially  in developing countries and in the time of economic crises  – like the current started in 2008. In order to raise  global awareness of the importance of agricultural  cooperatives, the United Nations declared 2012 as  cooperative year, pointing to the importance of  cooperatives in reducing poverty, improving food security  and employment opportunities in rural areas.
The paper is  divided into three parts. After the introduction, in the  first part of the paper is analyzed the most important  characteristics of agricultural cooperatives in the country  and abroad, with considerable attention to the activities  in which agricultural cooperatives may have a special  importance in the development of agriculture and poverty  reduction in rural areas. In the second part are analyzed  changes in the number of family farms based on data from  the Census of Agriculture 2012, in order to identify trends  in the agrarian structure of our country and highlight the  interdependence between number of family farms and  agricultural cooperatives. In addition, examples of good  cooperative practice from the world and our country are  highlighted. In the third part of the paper is pointed out  to the importance of keeping complete and accurate  cooperative statistics in order to properly argue their  contribution to the development of rural areas.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/161799},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.161799},
}