Agricultural Cooperatives

An agricultural cooperative, also known as a farmers' co-op, is a cooperative where farmers pool their resources in certain areas of activity. A broad typology of agricultural cooperatives distinguishes between 'agricultural service cooperatives', which provide various services to their individually farming members, and 'agricultural production cooperatives', where production resources (land, machinery) are pooled and members farm jointly. Examples of agricultural production cooperatives include collective farms in former socialist countries, the kibbutzim in Israel, collectively governed community shared agriculture, Longo Mai co-operatives and Nicaraguan production co-operatives.The default meaning of 'agricultural cooperative' in English is usually an agricultural 'service' cooperative, which is …

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WFP: World Food Programme · 26 June 2024 English

A review on progress made in 2023

(e.g. health, nutrition, learning) and agricultural cooperatives and their members. A larger-scale impact


World Bank Group · 25 June 2024 English

rural women who are members of women's agricultural cooperatives, particularly for the use of the ARDNA


World Bank Group · 7 June 2024 English

include replicant farmers and evolve into Agricultural Cooperatives (ACs) at a later stage.  Market linkages


EU: European Union · 6 June 2024 English

between the General Confederation of Agricultural Cooperatives in the European Union (COGECA), the European


EU: European Union · 6 June 2024 English

between the General Confederation of Agricultural Cooperatives in the European Union (COGECA), the European


World Bank Group · 5 June 2024 English

Dec/2014 2.00 30-Dec-2022 2.00 Jun/2025 Agricultural cooperatives strengthened (Number) Comments on


World Bank Group · 2 June 2024 English

as the increasing engagement of the agricultural cooperatives at Bababe and Thienel. The forthcoming


World Bank Group · 29 May 2024 English

agribusinesses; 3. Farmers associations and agricultural cooperatives; 10 4. Advisory services; 5. Consultants; Consult Farmer associations and agricultural cooperatives Expect project support to resolve exiting


SEARCA: Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture · 17 May 2024 English

The project aims to strengthen the capacity Policies on Family Farming in Asia and the Pacific, a of the targeted AMS to develop policies and programs collaboration with IFAD and …

(PCC); Thailand’s Bank of Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC); Tokyo University of Agriculture


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 17 May 2024 English

Despite most policy-makers' belief that GDP growth is the primary measure of success, the true core factors of economic progress are capital assets—human, natural, produced, financial, and social capital. These …

important expansion of both the number of agricultural cooperatives and the services they provided to their G. N., & Getnet, K. (2014). Impact of agricultural cooperatives on Smallholders’ technical efficiency: & Mesfin, H. M. (2017). The impact of agricultural cooperatives membership on the well-being of smallholder


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