Development of agrarian cooperation in modern environmental conditions: heuristic potential of interdisciplinary scientific research

Abstract

Relevance. The relevance of the study, the results of which are presented in this article, is due to the increased need to review and systematize the results of modern scientific research in the field of agricultural cooperation, which, on the one hand, reflect the trends and problems of development of agricultural cooperatives that have developed in world practice, on the other hand, have a heuristic and practical significance for improving the conditions for the development of cooperation directly in the Russian environment (moreover, taking into account its current state and existing challenges and threats).Methods. The methods used in the course of the study, in particular, integrative and discursive methods, review and analytical techniques, rigorous comparative assessments of new (obtained in the analyzed works) conclusions, made it possible to carefully monitor and strictly correlate such research aspects as (1) struggles faced by cooperatives due to the deterioration of the political and macroeconomic environment, the negative consequences of climate change, emerging biological (and other) threats, (2) a theoretical justification for the reasons for the decrease in the efficiency of cooperatives due to existing fluctuations in the conditions of their functioning, ( 3) practical solutions offered by scientists in the light of modern interdisciplinary research of the phenomenon under study (agricultural cooperation).Results. As a result of the review and analytical work undertaken to achieve the stated goal (generalization and systematization of existing concepts of the functioning of agricultural cooperatives, identification of their heuristic potential for use in the process of developing an algorithm and mechanisms for introducing business and socially-oriented models of agricultural cooperatives into Russian practice), it is necessary to highlight the publications of those authors who seek (1) to find new approaches to preserving the unique cooperative organization, on the one hand, and finding an adequate response to global changes in society and the economy, on the other, (2) to develop the theory of agricultural cooperation, taking into account a number of circumstances that a few years ago were not defined as worthy of attention, but today are considered as decisive for the development of many socio-economic processes (coronacrisis, foreign economic sanctions, a fundamental violation of technological and logistic chains), (3) to focus purely fundamental research on solving urgent (applied) problems in the field of agricultural cooperation.