Role of Cooperatives in Climate Smart Agriculture
Climate change is an important challenge to secure food to the growing world population through improved agricultural production. Hence, ‘climate action’ is suggested at the global level by formulating Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of taking urgent a
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Cooperatives and Social Innovation Experiences from the Asia Pacific Region
Cooperatives and Social Innovation “Social innovation has been of late widely discussed by scholars; but most of the literature has addressed the nonprofits or the third sector at large. This book is a unique collection of theoretical papers written specifically for this purpose as well as cases of social innovations by cooperatives to solve problems at the local and higher levels from the region presented in the ICA-Asia Pacific research conference on ‘Cooperatives: The key solution for social innovation’. A wide range of social innovations in the areas of finance, health, agriculture, climate change, consumer, marketing and worker welfare, empowerment of women and youth are covered. I believe this volume will be an important addition to the literature on cooperatives in the Asia Pacific region.” —Prof. Akira Kurimoto, Chairperson of the ICA Asia Pacific Research Committee and Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan “This book on ‘Cooperatives and Social Innovation’ is the first of its kind. The book discusses the new concept of social innovation and brings out the social innovation practices in cooperatives. The volume consists of papers that have undertaken an in-depth analysis of cooperatives particularly in the area of social innovation. The book covers interesting areas on social innovations in cooperatives relating to finance, grading of cooperatives, social media to promote cooperative movement, tourism, producer, consumer, climate smart agriculture, health insurance and women leadership. The book will be of great value at the global as well as national level cooperatives. NCUI recognizes and appreciates the efforts put in by the editors Professors Rajasekhar, Manjula and ParanJothi.” —Dr. Chandra Pal Singh Yadav, President, National Cooperative Union of India (NCUI); Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha), Government of India “Scholarly studies on the subject of Cooperatives are a few as compared to those on Economics, Commerce and Management. I am extremely happy to note that Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bengaluru, and Agricultural Cooperative Staff Training Institute (ACSTI), Thiruvananthapuram, have jointly worked to bring out the book “Cooperatives and Social Innovation” through a Springer publication. I am confident that this book will contribute to more innovations by Cooperatives in the field and will help the members of Cooperatives functioning in different sectors of the economy. It is hoped that both the Institutes will continue to work together for enriching the literature on Cooperatives and thereby guide policy formulators in making cooperatives as member-centric institutions.” —Kadakampally Surendran, Minister for Co-operation Tourism & Devaswoms, Government of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, India
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