Workareas
work area 01: Participatory Policy Formulation
This work area comprises participatory policy preparation within national farmers unions; and advocacy of these national as well as the regional (supranational) and international organizations.
On the international level focus [...]
work area 02: Financial management
This work area comprises the organization of FinBase seminars and similar initiatives to enhance the financial management of farmers organizations.
Financial autonomy is a subject that came on the agenda within [...]
work area 03: Internal organisational strengthening (OS)
With the ID/OS tools, we work on strengthening organizations internally. The aspects in which an organization needs strengthening depend on its mission and the services required by its members. We [...]
work area 04: Institutional Development (IS)
This work area is not new. Policy development and advocacy of course also has this institutional development aspect. Yet, in this work area and over the coming years we will [...]
work area 05: Grass-roots Participation
This work area goes back to the work of many development agency, in particular FAO, on participatory approaches and group formation for grass roots economic development.
With more than 20 [...]
work area 06: Development of training modules & facilities
This work area encompasses the work to develop training modules and facilities. Their is an intention to do this with the knowledge institutions of the Dutch public private partnership Agri-ProFocus. [...]
work area 07: Agricultural Development (crops)
This work area comprises the many activities of agri-agencies that do targeted work with farmers’ groups on the technical aspects of cultivating certain crops. It includes activities with foresters, fishermen [...]
work area 08: Banking and Credit sector (including Insurance)
These activities in this work area build on the experiences gained with setting up agricultural credit structures in Latin America and Africa. In Asia, the experiences lie mainly in the [...]
work area 09: Inputs for agriculture
In this work area special projects aiming at improvement of the input supply to agriculture are envisaged. The issue of fertilizer supply in Africa as an outcome of the Fertilizar [...]
work area 10: Farmer-to-Farmer Agricultural Extension
This work area is to introduce experiences with Farmer Field Schools and horizontal farmer-to-farmer information in new situations, mainly in Africa. We estimate that 20 organizations will be able to [...]
work area 11: Market & Chain Development
This work area is the extension of the Trade Capacity Building programme that IFAP initiated with TMF funds. The implementation was in the hands of AgriCord and the agri-agencies. This [...]
work area 12: Research for Development in agriculture
This work area addresses the PO's capacity to take up a (pro-)active role in formulating research agendas and functioning as major stakeholder in the research cycle, building strategic alliances between [...]
work area 13: Other services to agriculture
In this work area, we will respond to project proposals by farmers' organizations related to other subjects than those covered by the services listed of work area 8 - 14. [...]
work area 14: Gender and Women in Development
We have earmarked a considerable sum for specific projects and activities aimed at women and at improving the gender balance in organizations and their activities. So far, the experience has [...]
work area 15: Information & Communication Technology (ICT)
In this work area we build on activities developed in ICT so far. Please check specialism "ICT". Through Agro-info.net we offer websites for rural membership organisations (partnersites) and intend to [...]
work area 16: Diversification in agriculture (rural non-farm economic activities)
In this work area we definitely will build further on off solutions through agro-tourism, staying with farmers and farmer communities in several destinations. Our agro-tourism places the farmers organizations in [...]
work area 17: Processing of agricultural products
In this work area we promote the establishment of farmer led initiatives in the agro-industrial sphere, e.g. the cooperative processing of bananas, fruit and vegetables, sugar and quinoa (Bolivia) and [...]
work area 18: Strengthening of support
Under this work area heading, agri-agencies group all the support-generating activities targeted at our own supporting organizations. Our aim is to maintain or bring the enthusiasm, involvement and commitment of [...]
work area 19: Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation
This work area groups all activities on agri-agency level to enhance cooperation among the AgriCord members by engaging them in joint planning, monitoring, evaluation and communication. It operationalizes the general [...]