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Frerichs, Rita Lorene.

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A case study of farmers joining together to create change: Perceptions and experiences of Agricultural Guild leaders and members.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A case study of farmers joining together to create change: Perceptions and experiences of Agricultural Guild leaders and members./
Author:	Frerichs, Rita Lorene.
Description:	306 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-07, Section: A, page: 2741.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-07A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3182265
ISBN:	9780542229435

A case study of farmers joining together to create change: Perceptions and experiences of Agricultural Guild leaders and members.
Frerichs, Rita Lorene.

A case study of farmers joining together to create change: Perceptions and experiences of Agricultural Guild leaders and members. - 306 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-07, Section: A, page: 2741.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005.

Current agricultural trends have revived discussions of the need for organized and cooperative action on the part of commercial Midwestern farmers. The prevailing belief is that without some form of organization and greater interest in "downstream" activities farmers will remain "price-takers" and, ultimately, end up losing out on opportunities for producing value-added grain. Alliances, guilds, and other forms of organization are thus seen as mechanisms for addressing a variety of farmers' needs. How these groups form, how successful they have been in achieving their stated goals, and the organizational structure that will ensure their continued success is not well understood.

ISBN: 9780542229435Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

A case study of farmers joining together to create change: Perceptions and experiences of Agricultural Guild leaders and members.
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502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005.
520 $a Current agricultural trends have revived discussions of the need for organized and cooperative action on the part of commercial Midwestern farmers. The prevailing belief is that without some form of organization and greater interest in "downstream" activities farmers will remain "price-takers" and, ultimately, end up losing out on opportunities for producing value-added grain. Alliances, guilds, and other forms of organization are thus seen as mechanisms for addressing a variety of farmers' needs. How these groups form, how successful they have been in achieving their stated goals, and the organizational structure that will ensure their continued success is not well understood.
520 $a This dissertation uses a multi-method approach, consisting of in-depth face-to-face interviews, participant observation, document analysis, and survey data. It weaves together several theoretical perspectives and strands of community research to document the experience of a group of progressive farmers who have formed a 'Guild'. It focuses specifically on their efforts at, and interest in, joining together to, in effect, produce "social capital." The research examines, over a four-year period, the process through which farmers organized and cooperated in the production of a consumer-demanded, specialty grain. Considerable attention is given to the network structure that is put in place to successfully achieve a working community of committed members.
520 $a The findings show that the Guild has been able to tap into and create community social capital. The leaders gained initial support for the Guild by building upon the strength of existing local social networks and institutional linkages that exist in rural communities. An examination of motives for joining the Guild indicate that in the face of an agricultural system increasingly defined by a new, differentiated market structure, members mainly joined the Guild to satisfy an overarching need for agricultural information and knowledge.
520 $a Implications of the findings are discussed for two major areas of concern. The first is an understanding of how some of the farmers' basic problems were addressed in creating a network that would provide them with information and greater leverage in securing new market opportunities and higher income; and second, for sustaining Guild membership over the next decade or so. Express, overall concern is with gaining a clearer, more in-depth understanding of how contemporary farmers, from their embedded position in the local landscape, are working their way into global production chains.
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