Agricultural cooperatives: Finding strength in numbers
Smallholder farmers grow a major share of the food consumed around the world and preserve rich, biodiverse landscapes.1 But despite their fundamental importance, many small farmers lead lives of deepening vulnerability – caught between subsistence strategies threatened by ecological degradation and...
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Centre for Development and Environment (CDE)
2020
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| author | Tschopp, Maurice Jaquet, Stéphanie Jacobi, Johanna Douangphachanh, Maliphone Bieri, Sabin |
| author_browse | Bieri, Sabin Douangphachanh, Maliphone Jacobi, Johanna Jaquet, Stéphanie Tschopp, Maurice |
| author_facet | Tschopp, Maurice Jaquet, Stéphanie Jacobi, Johanna Douangphachanh, Maliphone Bieri, Sabin |
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| description | Smallholder farmers grow a major share of the food consumed around
the world and preserve rich, biodiverse landscapes.1
But despite their
fundamental importance, many small farmers lead lives of deepening
vulnerability – caught between subsistence strategies threatened by
ecological degradation and commercial food systems that devalue them
as cheap labour. Alternative agricultural models are urgently needed.
One long-running movement still shows major untapped potential: that
of agricultural cooperatives. These can enable smaller food producers to
band together and access markets without losing control of their land,
livelihoods, or food sovereignty. Cooperatives have been expanded in
various developing countries where smallholders face diverse pressures,
including from international markets. Today, about a billion people
are involved in cooperatives – many of them successful agricultural
businesses combining values and principles of fairness and ecological
sustainability.2
But more must be done. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1083132025-11-05T11:36:16Z Agricultural cooperatives: Finding strength in numbers Tschopp, Maurice Jaquet, Stéphanie Jacobi, Johanna Douangphachanh, Maliphone Bieri, Sabin cooperatives cooperativas smallholders pequeños agricultores value chains cadenas de valor commodities productos basicos Smallholder farmers grow a major share of the food consumed around the world and preserve rich, biodiverse landscapes.1 But despite their fundamental importance, many small farmers lead lives of deepening vulnerability – caught between subsistence strategies threatened by ecological degradation and commercial food systems that devalue them as cheap labour. Alternative agricultural models are urgently needed. One long-running movement still shows major untapped potential: that of agricultural cooperatives. These can enable smaller food producers to band together and access markets without losing control of their land, livelihoods, or food sovereignty. Cooperatives have been expanded in various developing countries where smallholders face diverse pressures, including from international markets. Today, about a billion people are involved in cooperatives – many of them successful agricultural businesses combining values and principles of fairness and ecological sustainability.2 But more must be done. 2020 2020-05-25T17:38:23Z 2020-05-25T17:38:23Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/108313 en Open Access application/pdf Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) Tschopp, M.; Jaquet, S.; Jacobi, J.; Douangphachanh, M.; Bieri, S.; Lannen, A. 2020 Agricultural Cooperatives: Finding Strength in Numbers. CDE Policy Brief, No.16. Bern, Switzerland 6 p. |
| spellingShingle | cooperatives cooperativas smallholders pequeños agricultores value chains cadenas de valor commodities productos basicos Tschopp, Maurice Jaquet, Stéphanie Jacobi, Johanna Douangphachanh, Maliphone Bieri, Sabin Agricultural cooperatives: Finding strength in numbers |
| title | Agricultural cooperatives: Finding strength in numbers |
| title_full | Agricultural cooperatives: Finding strength in numbers |
| title_fullStr | Agricultural cooperatives: Finding strength in numbers |
| title_full_unstemmed | Agricultural cooperatives: Finding strength in numbers |
| title_short | Agricultural cooperatives: Finding strength in numbers |
| title_sort | agricultural cooperatives finding strength in numbers |
| topic | cooperatives cooperativas smallholders pequeños agricultores value chains cadenas de valor commodities productos basicos |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/108313 |
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