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Project Title |
Location |
Duration |
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Promoting Co-operative Ventures by Independent Farmers |
Russian Fed. |
1998-2001 |
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The aim of this institution building project is the development of an
appropriate "co-operative" framework which will bring about a stable and
prosperous private farming culture, as well as its adaptation to economic reform and
restructuring. Vakakis International and its associated partner, Chambre d’Agriculture
de Charente Maritime, are using an intensely participatory, educational approach towards
independent farmers and a farmer-centric, needs-driven methodology which was designed to
identify optimum solutions and to test the farmers’ own propensity to co-operate and to
become aware of their own strengths and weaknesses. The results of this approach have been
the establishment in three areas (representative of Russian agriculture) of three
commercially successful, farmers co-operatives and the propagation of these
accomplishments to a wider audience throughout Russia, and the provision of policy advice
and guidance at both local and federal level on the development and establishment
co-operative and their efficient management as small or medium sized enterprises
(SME’s). |
Donor Agency |
Recipient |
Beneficiaries |
Project TA Value |
|
EU-Tacis |
Russian Federal Ministry of Agriculture |
Russian Farmers |
mEuro 1.44 |
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