Inclusive cooperatives and associations have a crucial role in overcoming many of the obstacles faced by women farmers in Asia. Watch the video to see how women-led cooperatives and enterprises supported the livelihoods of women farmers.
Women farmers continue to be at a disadvantage position with limited access to resources, financial services, and government subsidies, among other things. Aside from farm work, women take care of their children and the elderly. Thus, the multiple crises such as the pandemic, extreme weather events, and increase in agri input prices due to the […]
An organized cooperative can enable women to access government services and support. The women farmers from the indigenous groups and “so-called”, lower caste, in Kailali District in Nepal have been discriminated against for a long time. They were unable to access support because they live on government lands with no land certificates. They set up the Kalika […]
Women and their needs are still largely unaccounted for, with policies unfavorable to them. Through the formation of women’s groups and associations, women’s issues and needs were made visible in various arenas – community, market, and policy processes. The experience of Surendranagar Mahila Bal Vikas Mandal showed that the needs of women workers and farmers such as […]
Women-led cooperatives have played a role in improving women farmers’ technical know-how, leadership capacities, business skills, and advocacy skills. Women members of Yen Duong Cooperative in Vietnam were trained in agroforestry production, handicrafts making, and tourism and actively participated in advocacy and policy-making activities in their locality. They have successfully convinced local officials to invest […]
For the ARISE-Farmers program, AgriCOOPh collaborated with six farmer organizations: Dicadi Agriculture Cooperative (DACO), Kalipunan ng Maliit na Magniniyog ng Pilipinas Agriculture Cooperative (KAMMPIL), Lumad sa Adgawan Farmers Multi-Purpose Cooperative (LAMPUFACO), Socorro Empowered People’s Cooperative (SOEMCO), Farmers Alternative for Self-Reliance Multi-Purpose Cooperative (FASRMCO), and Barangay Calube Farmers Multi-Purpose Cooperative (BACFA-MPC). In this video, farmer-beneficiaries share […]
Umnugobi Province, Mongolia – The Lusyn Serchim Cooperative, a member of the National Association of Mongolian Agricultural Cooperatives (NAMAC), was established in 2013 with 109 members. The cooperative helps its members sell their livestock raw materials in order to increase their main income. Currently, the cooperative has 205 members. In October 2017, Amgalan Khungee, manager of the […]
In April 2021, the Kraing Leav Samaki Agricultural Cooperative loaned USD 30,000 from the ARISE-Farmers program to purchase organic rice and conventional rice from their members. With this amount, the Cooperative was able to buy 170 metric tons of organic rice (consisting of 110 tons of Romdul and 60 tons of red Jasmine rice) and […]
