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Policy briefGood performance and inclusiveness of poor people in cooperatives and other producer organizations: a possible match?
Insights pre- and post-COVID-19 pandemic from nine producer organizations around the world
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No results found.Can cooperatives and other producer organizations (POs) combine good performance with the inclusion of poor producers? A research study on nine POs in different regions, carried out by the Department of Economics of Roma Tre University and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), suggests that this is possible. The research shows that strategies promoting social opportunities can expand people’s agency and capabilities, thus encouraging the development of an informed, motivated, skilled and active membership. This can in turn contribute to POs’ financial viability and effectiveness in service provision, and thus play an important role in ensuring POs are able to both be inclusive and perform well. In particular, POs that were already inclusive and performing well before the pandemic managed to be resilient to the COVID-19 shock by adopting strategies based on sustainable agricultural practices, digitalization, investment diversification and intercooperation. They have also been fundamental agents for the social protection of their members and communities. -
DocumentTalking about Forests and Family Farms: Growing Relations on Fertile Ground. A conversation between forest and farm producers and governments at the "Family Forestry is Family Farming" event, Thursday 26th June 2014, World Forest Week, FAO, Rome 2014
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No results found.This publication summarizes the conversation that took place at the “Family Forestry is Family Farming” event co-organized by the Forest and Farm Facility (FFF) and the International Family Forestry Alliance (IFFA). In the celebration of the International Year of Family Farming (IYFF), the conversation testifies to the power of cooperation between forest-and-farm families and governments in preparing fertile ground. -
Book (stand-alone)Small-scale forest enterprise development in Nepal: overview, issues and challenges 2018
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No results found.The study looks at three representative cases in detail to understand the organizational management; resource governance, production and harvesting; technology and financing; and benefit sharing arrangements. It is found that the SSFE governance framework is still evolving particularly in case of those managed by groups. Forest resources are generally harvested under an approved management plan and the user groups have adopted measures to ensure sustained supply of resources over time. Despite these measures, there are sustainability challenges that these SSFEs will face in the long run. While most of the SSFEs are struggling to generate profit, they have a strong orientation for equitable benefit sharing, especially to benefit poor, women and other marginalized forest dependent groups. The study has made a few recommendations. First, it shows a need to explore suitable institutional arrangements that creates adequate incentive to local forest user group leaders to run enterprises and develop needed partnership with private sector. Second, capacity development of service providers, entrepreneurs and forest managers should be supported by suitable technical and managerial capacities. Third, there is a need for timely and periodic revision in policy and forest tenure to incentivize forest managing communities and private actors in establishing SSFEs. Fourth, critically needed business development services should be provided through a combination of public and private funds and mechanism. Finally, the government must ensure a safe and fair business environment in which entrepreneurs are encouraged to invest more on SSFEs.
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