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Enhancing women participation in the affairs of their cooperatives

Combined approach shows its value

ETHIOPIA - In 2019 Agriterra started to support sixteen primary cooperatives (PC), all members of Damot FCU (Farmer Cooperative Unions), a client of Agriterra. With the help of Agriterra, Kuch PC managed to more than double its output marketing within a year.

Digital side event at the UN Food Systems Pre-Summit in Rome

Cooperative Partnership for Climate Smart Food and Forestry host digital side event at the UN Food Systems Pre-Summit in Rome

On Wednesday 28 July at 13:30-14:20 the Cooperative Partnership, which joins Agriterra and the Dutch, Danish and Finnish farmer’s, foresters and cooperative organisations LTO, NAJK, DAFC and MTK, will host a digital side event at the UN Food Systems Pre-Summit in Rome. The session titled ‘Towards Global Partnerships for a Climate Smart and Efficient Food Future’ will focus on the need to mobilise more global climate finance for public-private partnerships to help cooperatives help their owners, the farmers, sequester carbon and mitigate agriculture emissions in developing countries. 

Agripoolers: Driving Results-focused Impact for Agricultural Cooperatives

By 2030, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to end all forms of hunger and malnutrition. This highlights the increasing role of farmers and agricultural cooperatives to ensure food security and productivity. However, agricultural cooperatives face multiple challenges such as access to land, technology, and especially markets. 

Gabriéla Versteeg new manager agri-advise in Agriterra

Agriterra has appointed Gabriéla Versteeg as the new manager Agri-advice as of July 1, 2021. She will take over from Cees van Rij, who recently stepped back. Gabriela will form part of the management team, and is reporting directly to the CEO of Agriterra. She will lead a community of over 100 business advisors in 19 countries.

Cooperative assessments: the starting point for professionalizing agricultural cooperatives

Philippines, June 9, 2021—In the last two decades, Agriterra has become an international leader in providing business development and advisory services to agricultural cooperatives across Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Part of this service delivery process is performing a cooperative assessment (CA) to ensure that agricultural cooperative (agri coop) clients receive targeted and appropriate capacity building interventions that will enable them to achieve their desired changes.

From paper administration to Sage 50 users in 7 days

Financial administration on paper now belongs to the past for 20 unions in Ethiopia producing animal feed. The unions are equipped and trained in software program Sage 50, as requested by ACDI/VOCA. Three other unions joined as they were not using the software to full capacity. Over the course of project, these unions have mastered the skills of digital accounting. 

Marco Schouten new CEO Agriterra

Arnhem, 27 May 2021

Marco Schouten is appointed as the new CEO of Agriterra. By mid September he will succeed Kees Blokland, the founder of Agriterra, who will retire at the beginning of Q4. Schouten: “I see it as a great honour to follow in Kees Blokland’s footsteps, further shaping the future of a wonderful organisation like Agriterra.”