Farmers' Organisations Development, Moldova

The project facilitates the mobilization of the rural community in solving community problems through the provided assistance to women and community study circles. Besides this, is actively involving the AGROinform network in gender mainstreaming.The project is focusing its efforts on:

• providing assistance to the existing cooperatives,
• informing farmers about cooperation opportunities,
• representing the farmer’s interest through commodity associations,
• assisting farmers’ in marketing of their products through informal sales groups,
• facilitating knowledge transfer within study circles,
• promoting women leadership within community study circles;
• increasing capacity of the regional organization from AGROinform network in gender mainstreaming and
• production of the study materials for the study circles for the all partner organizations from Europe program.

The support activities of the project related to the existing cooperatives are directed towards assistance in increasing sales, making investments, increasing the number of members within the cooperatives and improving fiscal state policies related to cooperatives. Also, an important issue for promotion of farmer’s cooperation, is to inform them about different legal and organizational forms existing in Moldova for common activities, using mass media and other information dissemination tools.

The project is aiming to influence the agricultural policies by supporting 2 Commodity Associations. These associations will promote the members’ interests through submitting initiatives to the profile state bodies as well as to influence the increase of acquisition price for agricultural products offered by the processing industry from Moldova.

The project provides methodological assistance in creating and developing informal sales groups where the farmers get support in making transactions with agricultural products.

Farmers improve their knowledge in technological and marketing issues within the study circles assisted by the project. As an outcome of the gained knowledge, the members of the study circles will increase their yields and incomes.

The project facilitates the mobilization of the rural community in solving community problems through the provided assistance to women and community study circles. Besides this, is actively involving the AGROinform network in gender mainstreaming.