For example

NOTE 19: Service Provision by Agri-Cooperatives Engaged in High Value Markets

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Markets for agricultural products with special quality, environmental, and social attributes can provide a profitable outlet for poor farmers in developing countries. However, participation in high value markets requires that farmers commit to deliver pre-identified volumes on time and in the required form and quality – a tall order in many cases. Agri-cooperatives play an important role in linking farmers to these markets; they forge business relations with distant buyers, realise economies of scale in processing and marketing, and provide advisory and other services to help their members respond to buyer demands

GFRAS is organised as an independent association and has as formal members entities bringing together actors in the domain of RAS. The GFRAS association includes a board, a general assembly, and is independently audited.

The Board is authorized to carry out all acts that further the purposes of the Association, and is composed by representatives of regional networks and partner organisations, plus one seat for GFRAS' current host, AGRIDEA.

Activities are managed by the GFRAS secretariat, currently located in Switzerland.

Board

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Norma Samuel

President

Caribbean Agricultural Extension Network Providers, CAEPNet

Extension Agent IV, Florida Friendly Landscaping & Urban Horticulture, University of Florida

USA

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Delgermaa Chuluunbaatar

Vice-President

Agricultural Extension Officer

Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations, FAO

Mongolia

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Mary Wairimu Kamau

African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services, AFAAS

Formerly with the Ministry of Agriculture

Kenya

  Dr Patrice Djamen

Patrice Djamen

The West and Central African Network of Agricultural and Rural Advisory Services, RESCAR-AOC

Cameroon / Burkina Faso

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Rasheed Sulaiman V

Agricultural Extension in South Asia AESA

Director, Centre for Research on Innovation and Science Policy (CRISP), Hyderabad

India

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Francisco Aguirre

Executive Secretary, Latin American Network for Rural  Extension Services, RELASER

Chile

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Botir Dosov

Chairman, Central Asia and the Caucasus Forum for Rural Advisory Services, CAC-FRAS

Uzbekistan

jussij

Jussi Juhola

Chaiman, European Forum for Agriculture and Rural Advisory Services, EUFRAS

Director of International Relations, Association of ProAgria Centres

Finland

  gibsons

Gibson Susumu

Chair, Pacific Islands Rural Advisory Services Network, PIRAS

Fiji

Kristin Davis

Kristin Davis

Co-Director, Developing Local Extension Capacity

Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute, IFPRI

South Africa

ulrich

Ulrich Ryser

Swiss Association for the Development of Agriculture and Rural Areas Agridea

Switzerland

 

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