A preparatory workshop of the DCC (Development Cooperation Committee) of IFAP, involving about 20 farmers´ organisations from the Latin America Region (Montevideo, October 2004), has formulated the objectives and future activities of this programme, which were presented at the IFAP Seminar \"Farmers and Supermarkets\" in Kampala (November 2004):

Specific Objectives:
To improve small-holders cooperatives' capacity of identifying market opportunities.
To strengthen their entrepreneurial capacities in order to access those identified market opportunities.
To make possible to small-holders cooperatives to make use of existing financial resources.
To make possible horizontal integration between small-holders cooperatives and their vertical integration in the agri-food supply chains.

Proposed activities:
Market intelligence (Access to and/or analysis of market related information).
Strategic planing: Business plan at the levels of the farm, cooperatives and their netwroks)
Entrepreneurial capacities according to business plans (contrasting plans' needs and diagnosis).
Access to financial resources and Financial Management (especially for working capital).
Networking initiatives (horizontal and vertical integration).

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