Agricultural producer organizations (POs) play a crucial role in the fight against poverty and food insecurity. But in many cases, specific groups, such as women and young people, are excluded from the services and benefits that POs offer. The active [...]

FAO and the UN, within the 2012 “International Year of Cooperatives”,  continue to raise awareness on the fundamental role of rural organizations and cooperatives in the fight against hunger. The following interviews reflect the work of cooperatives all around the [...]

Caz Graham investigates how farming cooperatives work in the UK, Europe and globally. And asks whether working together could improve the future for UK farmers.

2012 marks the United Nations International Year of Cooperatives. In keeping with that special occasion, new offices for cooperatives were inaugurated at FAO headquarters, to translate FAO’s special commitment to cooperatives. The theme for this year’s World Food Day “Agricultural cooperatives [...]

In 1999, IFAD and FAO jointly implemented a project to promote the Farmer Field School (FFS) approach in eight districts of Kenya, Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania. The FFS approach enables farmers to make decisions, solve problems and [...]