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Holding All the Cards? Quality Management by Cooperatives in a Moroccan Dairy Value Chain

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  • Nicolas Faysse

    (Cirad, G-Eau Research Unit, Montpellier, France and Ecole Nationale d’Agriculture de Meknes, km 10 Haj Kaddour Road, Meknes, BP S/40, Morocco)

  • Cristina Simon

    (Institute for Higher Education in Tropical Agri-food Industry & Rural Development, Montpellier, France)

Abstract

Producer organizations are often said to have the potential to help farmers meet the increasing quality requirements of agricultural value chains. However, the external environment may influence producer organizations’ room for maneuver in implementing effective quality management. This article assesses the influence of the relations between producer organizations, producers and other actors in the value chain on the capacity of producer organizations to implement quality management. Our analysis focuses on four Moroccan milk collection cooperatives that started using a milk analyzer with the aim of eliminating cheating by their suppliers. The cooperatives’ room for maneuver in improving quality management was limited by the presence of competitors for milk collection and by the agro-industry’s lack of transparency in the way its own quality controls were applied. Future studies on how producer organizations can meet the quality challenge should include the strategies of other actors in the value chain in their analyses.

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  • Nicolas Faysse & Cristina Simon, 2015. "Holding All the Cards? Quality Management by Cooperatives in a Moroccan Dairy Value Chain," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 27(1), pages 140-155, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:eurjdr:v:27:y:2015:i:1:p:140-155
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    1. Delelegne Abera Tefera & Jos Bijman & Maja Slingerland & Gerben Velde & Onno Omta, 2020. "Quality Improvement in African Food Supply Chains: Determinants of Farmer Performance," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 32(1), pages 152-175, January.
    2. Huma Neupane & Krishna P. Paudel & Mandeep Adhikari & Qinying He, 2022. "Impact of cooperative membership on production efficiency of smallholder goat farmers in Nepal," Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 93(2), pages 337-356, June.
    3. Charlebois, Sylvain, 2016. "Policy-change Triggered Environmental Uncertainty in a Dairy Cooperative: The Case of Mila in South Tyrol," International Journal on Food System Dynamics, International Center for Management, Communication, and Research, vol. 7(3), pages 1-13, July.

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