Abstract
El artículo presenta los resultados de los estudios quesobre cooperativismo rural el Instituto de EstudiosRurales ha venido realizando, desde hace más dequince años, en el sur del departamento de Santander,Colombia. Con base en estos estudios se muestra quelas cooperativas de la zona son efectivas agentes deDesarrollo Rural. Se describen sus principales características,tanto en los aspectos organizacionales yadministrativos, como el papel que juegan al interiorde la economía regional.Culmina el artículo con el planteamiento de los retosmás importantes que deben enfrentar hoy en díaCuadernos de Desarrollo Ruralis registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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