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Good practices in building innovative rural institutions to increase food security [1]

Strong rural organizations like producer groups and cooperatives are crucial to hunger and poverty reduction. They allow small producers to play a greater role in meeting growing food demand on local, national and international markets, while improving their own economic, social and political opportunities. This thinking connects a series of case studies found in a new publication by the FAO and the IFAD. The publication, Good practices in building innovative rural institutions to increase food security, presents thirty-five cases of successful institutional innovations that have empowered small-scale producers, and contributed to food security in different regions in the world.

Publication Date: 
01/03/2012
Denis Herbel [2], Eve Crowley [3], Nora Ourabah Haddad [4]
FAO [5]
Tags:
Food Security [6], Agriculture [7], Food Prices [8], Contract Farming [9], NGO [10], Cooperatives [11], India [12], Developing Countries [13], Farmers [14], Rural Development [15]
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National Knowledge Commission Government of India

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[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/denis-herbel
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/eve-crowley
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/nora-ourabah-haddad
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/publisher/fao
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/food-security
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/agriculture
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/food-prices
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/contract-farming
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ngo
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/cooperatives
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/india
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/developing-countries
[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/farmers
[15] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rural-development