Stimulate coordination between farmers
Stimulate cooperation between farmers saves or creates new resources. Pooling these resources helps to optimise the farm. This cooperation can take different forms and activate different levers. It helps to make the farm more resilient
Main Recommendations:
Initiate and bring together several people to work on a project, then managing it to implement it, requires energy, conviction, know-how and interpersonal skills to listen and deal with the expectations of the group as a whole.
From the outset, you need to set aside time to bring a collective project to life, by establishing clear rules of operation and governance.
This cooperation can take different forms and cover several areas:
• Governance: Bringing together several farms/partners with the same functions/responsibilities (investment, strategy, work) within a single legal structure (GAEC in France for instance).
• To limit expenses - Joint investment: pooling purchases, buying equipment on a joint-ownership basis, setting up a Cooperative for the Use of Equipment.
• Technical : joint crop rotation, sharing technical skills, etc.
• Human/labour: setting up mutual support mechanisms, building mutual aid banks, creating a group of employer
Benefits to Farmers:
• Cooperation strengthens the links between actors within a community in a given area.
• To organise projects collectively requires investment of time, but saves time in the long run.
• Joint investment means :
- more efficient equipment than that designed for one's own use
-access to equipment at a controlled cost
-renew equipment more regurarly
Resilience for Dairy
Completed | 2021-2024
- Main funding source
- Horizon Europe (EU Research and Innovation Programme)
- Geographical location
- Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, Spain, Slovenia, Netherlands, Northern Ireland