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VisionThe Farmers Fighting Poverty theory of change sees strong farmers’ organisations and cooperatives as active contributors to economic, social and political development.
The end of poverty and hunger, starting with rural areas
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Good governance and democracy Sustainable economic development
Better income distribution
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Organised farmers in developing countries influence society and the wider economy
The aim is a globally productive family farm sector that creates decent jobs in rural areas. Employment is created through flourishing small businesses based on food production and agricultural support services.
More democracy – institutional challengesFarmers’ organisations foster democracy by taking part in consultation, policymaking and negotiation. They can also reduce inequalities in society and between genders. National federations of local associations bring notable socio-economic benefits and farmers’ organisations provide much-needed institutional stability in times of political or environmental crisis. Active members, attracted by clear economic benefits, are crucial to success because joint enterprises and cooperative activities require loyalty and commitment.
Sustainable economic growthWith the aim of reducing poverty and hunger, Farmers Fighting Poverty supports smallholder family farms and their business ambitions in terms of access to markets, technical assistance, credit and quality inputs. Collective action through farmers’ organisations can reduce costs, encourage innovation and improve access to land. It also gives bargaining power and access to market information, and helps to overcome inequalities faced by young and women farmers. Productivity is boosted by better technology at all stages of production. And all activities under the Farmers Fighting Poverty programme are designed to ensure financial, environmental and social sustainability.
Better distribution of incomeOur vision is that strong farmers’ organisations will boost rural incomes and improve income distribution. By setting up local processing facilities, organisations can add value to raw produce, create jobs, stimulate the rural economy and reduce the urban exodus. Through farmers’ organisations, women and young farmers can be part of this structural transformation, because the organisations speak for all stakeholders and can take actions to ensure fair participation.
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Malawi
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LesothoLesotho
TAiwanTaiwan
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= more than € 200.000 volume of activities in this country
AgriCord is a non-profit development alliance that has official development assistance (ODA) status with the OECD. As an alliance, AgriCord operates via its members, the agri-agencies, and supports on average more than 200 farmers’ organisations per year in more than 50 developing countries.
Financial and technical partners 2016
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Bolivia
Colombia
Nicaragua
Ecuador
Brazil
HondurasGuatemalaEl Salvador
Haiti
Algeria
Morocco
Mauritania
Tunisia PalestineNepal
Laos
Thailand Philippines
Vietnam
Malaysia
Cambodia
Indonesia
Belarus
Bosnia-Herzegovina Kosovo
Albania
Moldova
Egypt
Soudan
South Africa
KenyaUganda
Ethiopia
Niger
Benin
Cameroon
MaliSenegal
GhanaGuineaGambia
TogoIvoryCoast
Burkina Faso
Zambia
Mozambique
Malawi
Rwanda
Tanzania
ZimbabweMadagascar
Paraguay
DR Congo
Sri Lanka
Myanmar
Burundi
Georgia
China
South KoreaMacedonia
Cuba
Peru
Bolivia
Colombia
Nicaragua
Ecuador
Brazil
HondurasGuatemalaEl Salvador
Haiti
Algeria
Morocco
Mauritania
Tunisia PalestineNepal
India Myanmar Laos
Thailand Philippines
Vietnam
Malaysia
Cambodia
Indonesia
Belarus
Bosnia-Herzegovina Kosovo
Albania
Moldova
Egypt
Soudan
South Africa
KenyaUganda
Chad
EthiopiaEthiopia
Burundi
Niger
Benin
Cameroon
MaliSenegal
GhanaGuineaGambia
TogoIvoryCoast
Burkina Faso
Zambia
Mozambique
Malawi
Rwanda
Tanzania
ZimbabweMadagascar
Paraguay
DR Congo
BrusselsMontreal
Georgia
Sri Lanka
China
JapanJapanSouth Korea
LesothoLesotho
TAiwanTaiwan
Macedonia
Paris
Leuven
Madrid Rome
BerlinArnhem
Stockholm
Dakar
Manila
Helsinki
Farmers Fighting Poverty Countries / Volumes / Farmers’ organisations
ACODEA Spain/South (S) and S/S expertise-sharing (Agripool), on governance, business plans, agricultural production and processing, marketing, financial management, access to credit and strategic planning. Seeking prospects for cooperative development.
AFDI France/S and S/S exchanges on rural development strategies. Techno-economic advice to family farmers. Internal networks for technical and economic innovation. Product quality improvement and certification. Collective marketing. Specific activities for young professional farmers. Training farmer leaders and financial managers.
AGRITERRA Netherlands/S and S/S expertise sharing (Agripool). Organisation and supply-chain development. Improving extension services. Training on financial management, record keeping, training of trainers, organisational assessment, gender and female leadership, educational structures for cooperatives and organisations.
AHA Coaching approach to organizational change and development. Leadership trainings. Country-specific training fostering an entre preneurial approach for farmers’ organisations. Germany/South and South/South exchanges of experience and networking. Training of trainers in the AHA flagship-method “bus” on entrepreneurship for farmers including SWOT analysis at farm level, innovation, marketing and business planning.
ASIADHRRA Training on leadership development, communication skills, planning, monitoring, organisational and financial management. Delivering agricultural training and extension services. Participatory resource appraisal and action research. Training on farm design and planning, collective forms of agriculture. Developing volunteer farmer agricultural technicians. Financial health check.
ASPRODEB Comprehensive, value-chain-focused support for certified seed production, collective marketing, cereal processing, access to credit. S/S advice on governance. Facilitation and implementation of contract farming. Farmer-controlled processing plant. Management of family farm investment credit.
CSA Professionalisation of member cooperatives by their federations. Cooperative business plans for processing agricultural products. Membership registration, including household and productivity information. Supporting national farmers’ platform contributions to public programmes.
FERT Training agricultural extension officers, young farmers, farmer leaders and farmers. Tools and instruments for extension activities, agro-ecology, storage, dairy and poultry, and organising animal health services. Supporting strategic analysis and planning, and development of viable activities.
FFD Twinning (Finland/S and S/S) tailored to organisational capacities. Matching capacity needs with the expertise of the twinning organisation.
TRIAS Supporting rural innovation, leadership training, and monitoring capacities and performance. Training micro-finance institutions.
UPA DI Integrated training and support programme focusing on small rural enterprises and their organisations. Financial and administrative management. Identifying new farmers’ initiatives. Organisational and technical aspects of collective marketing. Developing economic branches within farmers’ organisations.
WE EFFECT Rural development programmes with strong focus on gender equality, including capacity building of farmers’ organisations for demand-driven services to farmers. S/S peer-to-peer exchanges and advisory services. Advice to organisations on planning, implementing and M&E of projects, and on business development with a gender perspective.
Farmers Fighting Poverty operates as
a multi-donor trust fund. It was set up
with financial support from the
Government of the Netherlands,
and is also supported by the governments
of several OECD countries (Belgium, Canada, Finland,
France, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland), by
the International Fund for Agricultural Development
(IFAD), and by the European Union.
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Sustainable development goalsFarmers’ organisations have a role in making progress towards many of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs):
• Inclusive governance and policy processes (SDGs 16 – Peace, justice and strong institutions & 17 – Partnerships for the Goals)
• Increased entrepreneurship, including access to markets and finance (SDGs 1 – No poverty, 5 – Gender equality & 8 – Decent work and economic growth)
• Sustainable management of natural resources (SDG 12 – responsible consumption and production)
• Resilience to climate change, and better food security and nutrition (SDGs 2 – Zero hunger, 13 – Climate action & 15 – Life on land)
Organisation-to-organisationFarmers speak the same language. Farmer-to-farmer exchanges, backed up by their organisations, can generate inspiring new ideas. Advisors, who are themselves part of the farmers’ world, provide advice based upon specific needs.
Mobilising farmers’ organisations since 2003In operation since 2003, AgriCord now has the backing of a growing number of farmers’ organisations in Europe (Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden), Canada (Québec), Asia (several countries) and Africa (Senegal). The AgriCord-alliance brings together 12 agri-agencies, professional development agencies, mandated by the farmers’ and rural people’s organisations and cooperatives in their own countries, to support their colleagues in developing countries.
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Sources of income
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farmers’ organisationsaccording to type of activity
Membership fees
Levies incl. taxes
Profits from income generating activities
Paid services
Grants, sponsoring
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1 Representation of members' interests
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2 Economic services to farmers (inputs, marketing)
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3 Technical services to farmers (training & extension, …)
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4 Provision of public goods (natural resource management, …)
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Mobilisation of this source of income is: M not realistic, ◆ difficult, ◆ ◆ feasible, ◆ ◆ ◆ very feasible
Sources of income for farmers’ organisations according to the focus of their servicesDepending on the type of activities and services provided to members, farmers’ organisations rely on different sources of income. For example, economic services provided to farmers’ can be financed by profits from income generating activities and paid services, whereas the provision of public goods relies on grants and sponsoring.
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Farmers’ organisations supported by Farmers Fighting Poverty
46%
35%
17%
2%
Economic services
Technical services
Representation
Public goods
33%
34%
31%
2%
National
Sub-national
Local
Regional
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5%
Supply side of value chains
Output side of the value chain
General concerns of value chains and structuration of farmers
Services provided by farmers’ organisations supported
Proportion of beneficiaries at different levels of farmers’ organisations
Place in value chain addressed by farmers’ organisations
Farmers’ organisations provide mutual support
Addressing the diversity of farmers’ organisations
The term ‘farmers’ organisation’ covers many types of groups, including associations, cooperatives and unions. The common thread is that members are all involved in the land (agriculture, horticulture, forestry, fishing) and related service industries.
We distinguish four types of organisational activity: economic, technical, providing public goods and representing farmers. These activities are financed by membership fees, levies, profits, service charges and grants. Farmers’ organisations supported by Farmers Fighting Poverty choose their own activities and partnerships, pursuing strategic interests defined by the farmers themselves.
Six basic principlesSupport under Farmers Fighting Poverty is:
1. Focused: only available to membership-based farmers’ organisations.
2. Demand-driven: all activities are proposed by organisations themselves.
3. Two-pronged: funding plus advisory services.4. Farmer-to-farmer: advice is provided through peer-to-peer
cooperation.5. Flexible: to cope with changing circumstances. 6. Comprehensive: from organisational capacity to economic
operations.
Farmers Fighting Poverty Advisory CommitteeAgriCord’s General Assembly is guided by the Advisory Committee, which comprises farmer representatives from developing countries plus the president and managing director of AgriCord.
Farmers' organisations according to sources of income
1 2 3 4 5
farmers’ organisationsaccording to type of activity
Membershipfees
Taxeson produce
Margins on economic activities
Products &services sales
Grants
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1 Representation of members' interests
2 Economic services to farmers (input supply, marketing...)
3 Technical services to farmers (training, advisory services…)
4 Services of public interests (environment, education…)
ACODEA
AFDI
AGRITERRA
AHA
ASIADHRRA
ASPRODEB
CSA
FERT
FFD
TRIAS
UPA DI
WE EFFECT
Agri-agencies according to farmers’ organisations activities and sources of incomeMajority of agri-agencies support farmers’ organisations mainly relying on grants for financing their activities and services to the members. Some agri-agencies’ have a different partnership profile, focusing on farmers’ organisations generating profits from the economic and technical services to their members.
Source: consolidated report 2016
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Technical and financial partnersAgriCord continues to seek strategic partnerships with academic and financial institutions that can complement our efforts to support rural development. Supported by DGIS, AgriCord began a forestry-related partnership with FAO in 2014; a more ambitious partnership is planned for 2017. In 2016 AgriCord became involved with the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA, based in the Netherlands) and the Pan-African Farmers Organisation (PAFO) to collect and use data on precision agriculture (‘smart farming’). Other partnerships develop when ideas from farmers’ organisations are brought to the attention of bodies such as FAO and the African Development Bank.
In terms of funding, the multi-donor contributions are complemented by the efforts of the agri-agencies and their farmers’ constituencies, which mobilise financial, technical and organisational resources for Farmers Fighting Poverty from their own members, the general public and other private sources. They also obtain funding from their governments and various multilateral or international organisations. Their overall package of support to farmers’ organisations is coherent with Farmers Fighting Poverty. The total amount mobilised by AgriCord members in 2016 was € 72.3 million:
2016total volume €M
Amount of support to farmers’ organisations €M %
Acodea 0.7 0.6 86%
Afdi 6.0 4.1 68%
Agriterra 11.0 9.7 88%
AHA 2.7 2.7 100%
AsiaDHRRA 2.2 2.2 100%
Asprodeb 4.7 4.4 94%
CSA 2.2 1.9 86%
Fert 5.2 5.0 96%
FFD 1.1 0.9 82%
Trias 13.0 10.4 80%
UPA DI 2.6 2.2 85%
We Effect 31.4 28.6 91%
Total 82.3 72.3 88%
Farmers Fighting Poverty - sources of funding channelled by AgriCord situation September 2016
year DGIS
Nether-
lands
ACDI/
CIDA
Canada
DGIS
(Agriterra)
Nether-
lands
MFA
Finland
SIDA
(SCC)
Sweden
IFAD IFAD
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GAFSP)
(FO
Facility)
IFAD
(#1243)
EU
(ANE-
Afdi)
AFD
(Afrique
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France
DGD
Belgium
EU with
IFAD
(FFP/
AFRICA)
AFD
(FFP/
AFRICA)
France
DGIS
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SDC
Switzer-
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EU with
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contracted
2003 1.141.750 1.141.750
2004 1.240.289 25.000 1.265.289
2005 1.200.731 25.000 1.225.731
2006 1.118.597 25.000 324.553 15.000 1.483.150
2007 82.592 25.000 115.652 100.000 15.000 338.244
2008 750.000 15.000 72.086 837.086
2009 700.000 15.000 301.771 200.000 1.216.771
2010 900.000 56.803 0 141.306 1.098.109
2011 900.000 222.947 348.173 64.822 179.980 472.386 2.188.309
2012 1.000.000 0 383.532 74.998 0 2.490.426 3.948.956
2013 1.000.000 24.772 425.448 1.937.788 4.639.376 1.000.000 9.027.384
2014 1.000.000 472.949 3.479.532 3.000.000 150.000 8.102.481
2015 1.500.000 1.100.000 1.739.766 1.300.000 4.000.000 150.000 9.789.766
2016 1.000.000 74.449 1.100.000 1.739.766 1.300.000 4.000.000 150.000 1.238.000 10.602.215
2017 500.000 148.985 1.100.000 1.400.000 4.000.000 200.000 2.731.000 10.079.985
2018 2.463.000 2.463.000
2019 268.000 268.000
Farmers Fighting Poverty has, since 2007, received technical and financial support from:
• DGIS, Directorate General for International Cooperation, the Netherlands
• ACDI/CIDA, Canadian Agency for Development Cooperation
• MFAF, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Finland
• SIDA, Swedish International Development Agency
• AFD, Agence Française de Développement
• IFAD, International Fund for Agricultural Development
• DGD, Directorate General for Development, Belgium
• EU, the European Union (with the technical support of IFAD)
• SDC, Swiss Development Cooperation.
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Services to farmers’ organisationsFarmers Fighting Poverty provides support and services aiming at strengthening organisational functioning, reinforcing organisational core competences and enhancing an organisation’s position in agro-food value chains:
Organisational functionsFarmers’ organisations have four main functions:
1. Representing members’ interests 2. Economic activities, often in cooperative form3. Technical activities such as advice and training for farmers4. Delivering public goods such as natural resource management,
environmental protection etc.
Core competencesAgri-agencies categorise competence-related challenges under four headings:
1. Ensuring the full commitment of members, board, management and staff
2. Providing economic and representation services to members3. Networking and attracting resources4. Adapting and innovating.
The position of farmers’ organisations in value chains
Dealing with suppliers and traders up- and downstream in agro-food chains is challenging for organisations that have structural weaknesses and low bargaining power. Farmers’ organisations can improve various aspects of their operations to participate more effectively in value chains:
• Upgrading producer skills to match market requirements
• Making sure that trading conditions are fair and transparent
• Overseeing labelling, certification etc. and ensuring that improved quality at the farm gate boosts the chain’s overall profitability
• Investing in activities related to farmers’ wellbeing e.g. in crop diversification, input supply, infrastructure and leadership training.
Services of agri-agencies as related to functions, competences and value chain positions of farmers’ organisations
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Functions of farmers’ organisations
Core competences of farmers’ organisations Value chain positions of farmers’ organisations
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Agri-agencies, members
Afdi Agriculteurs Français et Développement International, France
Agri-agency of FNSEA, APCA, young farmers JA and CNMCCA
J. DecerleJeunes Agriculteurs President France
Agriterra the Netherlands
Agri-agency of LTO, the rural women’s organisations SSVO, NCR and rural youth NAJK
M. CalonLTO presidentthe Netherlands
FertFrance
Agri-agency partner of Group “Céréaliers de France”, (AGPB,
AGPM, Arvalis, Unigrains, France Export
Céréales, Passion Céréales)
J-F. IsambertUnigrains vice president France
TriasBelgium
Agri-agency of Boerenbond, Landelijke Gilden, rural women KVLV and rural youth KLJ
S. De BeckerBoerenbond presidentBelgium
UPA DIUPA Développement international, Canada
Agri-agency of UPA, Union des Producteurs Agricoles (Quebec)
M. Groleau Président de l’UPACanada
We EffectSweden
Agri-agency of LRF (Lantbrukarnas Riksförbund), Federation of Swedish Farmers
L. FolkessonLRF board memberSweden
CSA Collectif Stratégies Alimentaires, Belgium
Agri-agency of FWA, Fédération Wallonne de l’Agri- culture, l’UAW, Agri cultrices, FJA, Jeunes Agriculteurs
J. PonthierFWA presidentBelgium
AsiaDHRRAPartnership for the Development of Human Resources in Rural Asia
Agri-agency of AFA, Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development
L. Darjee AFA presidentNepal
Asprodeb Association sénégalaise pour la promotion du développement à la base,
Agri-agency of CNCR, Conseil National de Concertation et de Coopération des Ruraux
B. DiopFPA president (Fédération des péri mètres autogérés) Senegal
FFD Finnish Agri-agency for Food and Forest Development, Finland
Agri-agency of MTK, SLC, ProAgria Centres and Pellervo-Seura
J. Marttila MTK president Finland
ACODEA Agencia de Cooperación al Desarrollo de la Agricultura, Spain
Agri-agency of UPA, Unión de Pequeños Agricultores y Ganaderos and FADEMUR
J. M. Roche UPA Secretary of International Relations Spain
Andreas Hermes Akademie Germany
Agri-agency of DBV, Deutscher Bauernverband
J. RukwiedPresident of DBV Germany
Farmers’ organisations, associated members
CIAConfederazione Italiana Agricoltori, Italy
S. ScanavinoCIA presidentItalyHow to contact
www.agricord.org
A Rue de Trèves 61
1040 Brussels, Belgium
P 0032 (0) 16 24 27 50
F 0032 (0) 16 24 27 55
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