After the collapse of the Soviet Union, most of the agricultural land in Georgia was fragmented into small pieces, affecting agricultural production and rural development. However, the cooperative movement is changing this phenomenon, and has attracted the attention of national government and international donors to support the re-establishment of new farmers’ groups. Using cross-sectional data collected from 37 cooperatives, this paper analyses the factors influencing the success of donor supported agricultural cooperatives by ordinal logistic regression model. The results indicate that new groups are rather small but homogeneous. Members agreed that more non-economic, rather than economic, benefits are currently derived from collective action. Determinants of success include the size of the cooperative, the proportion of women in the cooperative, the proportion of nuclear families, active participation in the cooperative and the type of product cultivated. However, the results are conditioned by respective value chain and influenced by the strategies of non-governmental organizations during the establishment of cooperatives.

苏联解体后，格鲁吉亚的大部分农业用地被分割成小块，影响了农业生产和农村发展。但是，合作社运动正在改变这种现象，并引起了国家政府和国际捐助者的关注，以支持新农民团体的重建。利用从37个合作社收集的横截面数据，通过序数logistic回归模型分析了影响捐助者支持的农业合作社成功的因素。结果表明，新的群体很小，但是是同质的。成员们同意，目前集体行动可带来更多的非经济利益，而不是经济利益。成功的决定因素包括合作社的规模，合作社中妇女的比例，核心家庭的比例，积极参与合作社以及所种植产品的类型。但是，结果取决于各自的价值链，并在合作社建立期间受到非政府组织战略的影响。