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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World Bank Group · 5 April 2024 English
Argentina’s agrifood sector drives both prosperity and crisis. While agrifood generates essential foreign currency earnings, tax revenue and employment, the sector’s vulnerability to external shocks can wreak havoc on the …
Economy (INAES) has registered 1,617 agricultural cooperatives in the country, the largest of which has …
IIED: International Institute for Environment and Development · 3 April 2024 English
banks,5 and many FFPOs also provide credit and Well-managed financial cooperatives bring other basic financial services to their members 6 many benefits to their members and to the wider from …
FFPOs started providing small loans as agricultural cooperatives and later set 3. Growing financial service …
World Bank Group · 31 March 2024 English
Argentina's agrifood sector drives both prosperity and crisis. While agrifood generates essential foreign currency earnings, tax revenue and employment, the sector's vulnerability to external shocks can wreak havoc on the …
Economy (INAES) has registered 1,617 agricultural cooperatives in the country, the largest of which has …
World Bank Group · 28 March 2024 English
majority (62 percent) of the members of agricultural cooperatives. Despite women’s prominent role in agriculture … support to strengthen farmer groups and agricultural cooperatives to enhance their capabilities in collective …
WFP: World Food Programme · 27 March 2024 English
This joint WFP and Action Against Hunger publication presents the impacts of El Niño in LAC, highlighting the emergency response and resilience activities taken to mitigate the effect of climate …
activities offered to local communities and agricultural cooperatives. • Action Against Hunger Peru trained …
Eurofound · 26 March 2024 English
Association. • Latvian Association of Agricultural Cooperatives. • Latvian Young Farmers Club. According …
Eurofound · 26 March 2024 English
Strategy 2030”, there were 82 active agricultural cooperatives in 2017, and according to the 2022 “Agriculture …
Eurofound · 26 March 2024 English
Companies. • Lithuanian Association of Agricultural Cooperatives. Collective bargaining does not take …
Eurofound · 26 March 2024 English
spoločností Slovenskej republiky (Union of Agricultural Cooperatives and Commercial Companies of the Slovak …
EU: European Union · 21 March 2024 English
thanks to the efforts of the various agricultural cooperatives that, in cooperation with university institutes …
