Agriterra supports farmers' organisations in fighting poverty, with advice from experts from the Dutch agricultural sector and with finance from the Dutch government. Our opinion is that strong farmers' organisations lead to more democracy, economic growth and a better distribution of income. We focus on economic development and work closely together with the Dutch agribusiness. This leads to results, which we achieve with the following three teams:

Cooperative Farmers’ Tour visualized

An impression of the exchange trip of representatives of agricultural cooperatives from Asia, Africa and Latin America to the Netherlands and Belgium

Agenda

5th General Assembly of Asian Farmers' Association

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

The Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) will hold the event entitled “AFA@10: Celebrating Successes, Taking On More Challenges: AFA Regional [...]
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100 jaar Europese landbouw op het Food Film Festival

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Tijdens Het Grote Landbouwdebat op het Food Film Festival spreken Europarlementariër Bas Eickhout (GroenLinks), Hans Huijbers (voorzitter ZLTO), Jaap Seidell (professor Voeding en [...]
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Finale event De Beste Boer 2012

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Ruim 800 teams strijden sinds januari in de online ondernemerscompetitie om de titel De Beste Boer 2012. Aan het einde van de wedstrijd [...]
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March 2012

Going for expansion!

KAJARA SACCO is a member based organization, established in 2002, which provides financial services (savings and loans) to its approximately 2.500 members. The client base are individuals, groups (Rural producer Organizations, and Area Cooperative Enterprises) and institutions like schools and [...]

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innovation : linking research with practise

An Msc. student is pursuing, as part of his thesis for the University of Utrecht, a study into the factors and mechanisms that encourage innovation by farmers in developing countries. The study consists of a literature review; interviews with experts [...]

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Passion fruit and more

Mosoriot is (still) a small cooperative that focuses on the marketing of passion fruit. The ambition reaches further: the cooperative also wants to start marketing of tomatoes, avocados, pineapple and banana. Mosoriot is still a very young cooperative and 2013 [...]

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