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Posted on 19th<\/sup>\u00a0December,\u00a02016by\u00a0Mrs. Manon Lent<\/strong><\/p>\n Short course with fellowship opportunity<\/p>\n 25 September – 6 October 2017<\/p>\n Improving farmers\u2019 performance and business relations<\/p>\n This course perceives farmers as autonomous entrepreneurs and their organisations as farmers\u2019 business organisations. Both operate in dynamic market systems and have to deal with a range of public and private sector players, such as sourcing companies, banks and MFI\u2019s, agro-input dealers, research, extension and others. The central question of the course is how farmers can improve their income and well-being through effective collective action of their organisations and improved relations with other stakeholders.<\/p>\n Upon completion of the course you will:<\/p>\nCourse programme<\/strong>For exploring how farmers can become partners in agribusiness, the course will discuss many complementary topics such as farmer entrepreneurship, governance of farmers\u2019 organisations, economic services that these organisations can deliver to their members, stakeholder collaboration, policy environment, promoting farmer-inclusive value chain development. Much attention is given to the introduction and sharing of practical tools. The course is highly interactive and action-oriented. Participants have the opportunity to learn from the broad international experience of the trainers and from other course participants. They will relate course topics to their work situation and work on their \u2018farmer business cases\u2019.<\/h6>\n
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