The role of agricultural cooperatives in sustaining the wheat diversity and productivity: The case of southern Italy

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dc.creatordi Falco, Salvatore
dc.creatorSmale, Melinda
dc.creatorPerrings, Charles
dc.date2008-02
dc.date2024-11-21T10:02:17Z
dc.date2024-11-21T10:02:17Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:13:50Z
dc.descriptionWe hypothesize that institutions such as agricultural cooperatives influence regional levels of variety diversity through input supply, processing or marketing functions. This diversity can also affect yield, a partial measure of crop productivity. We test these hypotheses with data from southern Italy, a mega-diversity spot and centre of diversity for durum wheat. Cooperatives in the southern regions of Italy process farmers’ harvests of durum wheat into bread, label it, and sell it locally. In this relatively marginalized region of the country, cooperatives enable farmers to capture more of the value of the final product and reduce marketing costs. To test the hypothesis, we apply a two-stage estimation approach with a Cobb-Douglas production function and panel data analysis. Findings suggest that the density of cooperatives in a region is associated with greater spatial diversity in wheat varieties grown, and that, over a 14-year period, this diversity positively affected crop yields.
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/162309
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/98324
dc.languageen
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.rightsLimited Access
dc.sourceDi Falco, Salvatore; Smale, Melinda; Perrings, Charles. 2008. The role of agricultural cooperatives in sustaining the wheat diversity and productivity. Environmental and Resource Economics Environmental and Resource Economics 39 (2): 161-174
dc.subjectbiodiversity
dc.subjectwheat
dc.subjectvarieties
dc.subjectproductivity
dc.subjectcooperatives
dc.subjectland conservation
dc.titleThe role of agricultural cooperatives in sustaining the wheat diversity and productivity: The case of southern Italy
dc.typeJournal Article

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