{"id":3687,"date":"2024-11-27T12:11:28","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T18:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/?post_type=analyses&#038;p=3687"},"modified":"2024-11-27T12:11:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T18:11:28","slug":"promoting-development-agricultural-cooperatives","status":"publish","type":"analyses","link":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/publications\/promoting-development-agricultural-cooperatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Promoting the Development of Agricultural Cooperatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"o-section o-section--small-margin o-section--wysiwyg paragraph paragraph--type--wysiwyg paragraph--view-mode--default component-61561\">\n<div class=\"u-container\">\n<section class=\"o-section__content o-content-from-editor js-content-from-editor\" lang=\"en\">Agricultural cooperatives can help small-scale farmers access training and inputs to boost their productivity and mitigate climate change risks, and improve their access to higher-value markets.<\/p>\n<p>This paper provides recommendations to governments in the Global South seeking to promote agricultural cooperatives. It focuses on two main areas: building a supportive regulatory, institutional, and infrastructural environment and implementing targeted initiatives for professionalizing and sustaining cooperative operations. By taking action in these areas, governments can help maximize cooperatives&#8217; potential to contribute to farmer livelihoods and climate resilience.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-background wp-element-button\" style=\"background-color: #5abc89;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/system\/files\/2024-11\/promoting-development-agricultural-cooperatives.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>DOWNLOAD INSIGHT <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agricultural cooperatives have the power to play an important role in providing small-scale producers with access to stable and fair market relationships, equitable pricing, and sustainable markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":3688,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-3687","analyses","type-analyses","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","analyses-category-insights-commentaries"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication\/3687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/analyses"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}