Team advocay and innovation

Thursday, January 26, 2012

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Team advocacy and innovation provides farmers' federations with knowledge about lobbying and other forms of advocacy. Lobbying can address amendments to legislation, like the taxation regimen for cooperatives. Advocacy can be relevant in areas like long-term agricultural leases or ground rights where Agriterra could help the farmers by enabling them to invest in their own plot of ground. In these ways, we help remove roadblocks to farmers' economic progress.

Innovation is a new area for Agriterra, one in which farmers' organisations work on entrepreneurship according to the three p's: people, planet, profit. Maintaining the countryside in a liveable form for future generations is one of the main aims. The youth has an important role here. Agriterra wants to stay as close to the ground as possible while making a concrete contribution. One way for it to do this is to encourage enterprising farmers' groups that want to produce and sell food in sustainable ways. Agriterra has a special innovation fund to stimulate enterprising and innovative organisations of young and female farmers.

Team advocacy and innovation initially had the most clients, but many of them are in a process of phasing out. Sometimes because the cooperation did not bring enough profit, but also because in other cases the work was done, for us at least, because the clubs themselves continue working for their members. The team focuses on customers who have renewing courses in mind and customers who need our support for result-oriented advocacy. Because we cannot manage this on our own, Agriterra consciously chooses for cooperating with other organisation like Agri-ProFocus and IFAD.

 

Contact: belangenbehartiging&innovatie@agriterra.org
Composition of the team: advocacy and innovation
For more information, please check the pdf-document below.

Source: Agriterra

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