Supporting agricultural cooperatives in rural areas

This book explains the basic concepts of agricultural cooperatives, their role in the development of family farming and the process of setting them up. It shows how to support farmers' organizations in their transition to the cooperative model, how to revitalize a lethargic agricultural cooperative, and how to set up a project in a growing agricultural cooperative. This book discusses the precautions to be taken to guarantee the survival of the agricultural cooperative, the prerequisites for its successful development and its impact on the farming community. It presents an approach for supporting agricultural cooperatives. It explains the basic principles of this support and discusses the technique of self-promotion animation as an approach for supporting farmers in rural areas with a view to the emergence of agricultural cooperatives. It demonstrates the importance of capacity-building for coaches as well as for members and leaders of the agricultural cooperatives supported.