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    Op 5 april 2005 werd in Wageningen de eerste Agri-ProFocus Expert Meeting gehouden. Deze meeting had als thema "Werken met producentenorganisaties: uitdaging of nachtmerrie?"

    The first Agri-ProFocus Expert Meeting was held in Wageningen, April 5th 2005 with a audience of 40 attendants from 15 Agri-ProFocus member organisations. Experiences with producer organisations and economic development presented in the Expert Meeting came from 13 conveners form eight different member organisations of Agri-ProFocus and eleven different countries. The presentations were organized in four blocks, grouping comparable issues:



    BLOCK 1: ORGANISATIONAL ADVICE  
    A path of roses?: culture change in a producer organisation - Mexico Olga van der Valk (WUR-LEI)
    Kagera Co-operative Union - Tanzania Connie Valkhoff (FTA)
    Facilitating organisational advice with producer organisations - Bolivia Gerda Zijm (GOM-ICCO)
    We are all boiled together - Kyrgystan Gerrit Holtland (CTRT)
    BLOCK 2: ORGANISATIONAL CHARACTERSTICS  
    AgriPool and Profiling of producer organisations Kees Blokland (Agriterra)
    Horizontal and vertical integration in producer organisations - the Netherlands Jos Bijman (WUR-SSG)
    Producer organisations and potato chain - Rwanda Ted Schrader (KIT)
    BLOCK 3: AGRI-CHAIN DEVELOPMENT  
    The Ecuadorian Association of Coffee Growers - Ecuador Christian Marlin (SNV)
    Producer organisations in contract farming - the Philippines Sietze Vellema (WUR-A&F;)
    Export promotion program for organic products - Tanzania/Uganda Boudewijn van Elzakker (AgroEco)
    Linking the informal with the formal: CIOEC against disincentives for peasant enterprise - Bolivia Giel Ton (WUR-IAC)
    BLOCK 4: QUALITY MANAGEMENT  
    Implementing EurepGap: an impossible demand from retailers or an opportunity for management improvement? - Costa Rica Dave Boselie (AgroFair) [CANCELED]
    Sustainable coffee chain Costa Rica - the Netherlands Myrtille Danse (ICCO)
    Small producer access to socially and environmentally just markets Rhiannon Pyburn (WUR-CIS)

     

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