Coordination of collective action in family livestock in Uruguay

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https://doi.org/10.18472/SustDeb.v12n1.2021.35078

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Collective processes. Family production. Rural development.

Abstract

Uruguay’s family livestock production shows an array of varied organizational arrangements, whose diversity reflects the different needs, interests, and even feelings, and values of the producers. Accordingly, cooperation processes aiming at obtaining both individual and collective benefits show different formalization and coordination frameworks. Through a series of interviews with representatives of family rancher’s group in the region known as “Litoral Norte” (Northern Coast) of Uruguay, an attempt was made understand how collective action is coordinated in the region. Results account for diverse endogenous and / or exogenous processes, which reflect the existence of shared norms, learning processes and rules of use, as a means to solve collective action problems.

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Author Biography

Virginia Courdin, MSc. in Environment and Development, PhD Student, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de la República, Paysandú, Uruguay

PhD Student, MSc. in Environment and Development, Professor, Dpto. de Ciencias Sociales, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de la República, Paysandú, Uruguay

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Published

2021-04-29 — Updated on 2021-05-07

How to Cite

Courdin, V. (2021). Coordination of collective action in family livestock in Uruguay. Sustainability in Debate, 12(1), 192–219. https://doi.org/10.18472/SustDeb.v12n1.2021.35078

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