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Producer Organisations in an Export-Oriented Value Chain: What Motivates Small-Scale Farmers in Kosovo to Collaborate? Cover

Producer Organisations in an Export-Oriented Value Chain: What Motivates Small-Scale Farmers in Kosovo to Collaborate?

European Countryside
Volume 14 (2022): Issue 2 (June 2022)
By: Theresa Bäuml,  Judith Möllers,  Thomas Dufhues,  Axel Wolz and  Diana Traikova  
Open Access
|Jul 2022

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/euco-2022-0019 | Journal eISSN: 1803-8417
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Language: English
Page range: 379 - 396
Submitted on: Aug 12, 2021
Accepted on: Mar 15, 2022
Published on: Jul 11, 2022
Published by: Mendel University in Brno
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year
Keywords:
Kosovo,
agricultural cooperatives,
producer organisations,
export-oriented value chain,
raspberry production,
smallholders,
structural equation modelling
Related subjects:
Life sciences,
Ecology,
Life sciences, other

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