Strengthening Farmer Groups

Farmer Groups

Tools

Scope Insight Offers rating assessments to small-to-medium farmer organizations’ capacity and organizational performance

Additional Reading

  • Food and Agriculture Organization Annual Report on FAO activities in support of producers’ organizations and agricultural cooperatives, 2011
  • Food and Agriculture Organization Building Networks for Market Access, 2011
  • International Food Policy Research Institute Contracting Out of Poverty: Experimental Approaches to Innovation in Agricultural Markets with Small Farmers, 2010
  • Cooperative Law and Regulation Initiative Enabling Cooperative Development: Principles for Legal Reform, 2006
  • International Fund for Agriculture and Development IFAD and Farmers’ Organizations Partnership in Progress: 2008-2009
  • Overseas Cooperative Development Council Measuring Cooperative Success: New Challenges and Opportunities in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, 2009

Organizations with Expertise

  • ACDI/VOCA provides technical expertise with producer organizations
  • Agriterra offers technical expertise with producer organizations
  • Communication Cooperative International provides expertise in communication with producer organizations
  • Contract Farming Resource Center is a FAO-sponsored source of information on contract farming
  • Esoko provides tools for communicating with producer organizations
  • Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa offers information and expertise with producer organizations
  • FrontlineSMS provides tools for communicating with producer organizations
  • Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services is a source of expertise on producer organization training
  • IFPRI provides economic and technical research on producer organizations
  • Inades-Formation supports economic and social advancement of rural populations in West Africa
  • Land O’Lakes offers technical expertise with dairy producer organizations
  • Zoona links firms and producer organizations through e-money technologies
  • National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA) has technical expertise with producer organizations
  • Oiko Credit is a financial institution providing credit to small and medium enterprises and cooperatives
  • Oxfam is a nongovernmental organization providing producer organization training

Firms can efficiently market inputs, obtain supply, and provide information when they partner with capable producer organizations. Invest in organizing farmers and building their capacity if these organizations do not exist.

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