Relevant Websites

CIRAD: http://www.cirad.fr/en/index.php

Cirad-Tera (Dept Territoires, environnement et acteurs), Programme Agricultures Familiales presents its work programme and key researchers. Pierre-Marie Bosc is the contact point for work on farmers’ organisations, and partnerships between FO’s and agricultural service providers. CIRAD provided 4 team members for the CORAF Initiative study presented above.

ODI: http://www.odi.org.uk/

ODI coordinated and provided several team members for the CORAF Initiative study presented above. The full set of CORAF Initiative reports will soon be available on this site.

WECARD/CORAF: www.coraf.org

WECARD/CORAF requested the research presented here and financed part of the study (alongside UK DFID and the French Ministere des Affaires Etrangeres). A member of the research team was provided by CORAF and it organised a stakeholder workshop to discuss the study’s results in Dakar in January 1999.

World Bank: lnweb18.worldbank.org/ESSD/ardext.nsf/16ByDocName/CaseStudies

Extensive web-site on "empowering producer organisations" highlights the results and proceedings of an international workshop held in Washington DC in June 1999. It provides numerous case studies of partnerships between agricultural service providers and producer organisations across the developing world. Six case studies are drawn from the CORAF Initiative study presented above.

Club du Sahel (OECD):www.oecd.org/sah

IFAP: www.ifap.org

The International Federation of Agricultural Producers – which jointly hosted the Washington workshop on producer organisations with the World Bank in 1999.

Inter-Réseaux: http://www.inter-reseaux.org

An organisations supported by the French Government to carry out networking and information sharing between rural development actors, including farmers organisations, in developing countries.

ISNAR: http://www.ifpri.org/divs/isnar.htm

International Service for National Agricultural Research which has a number of publications on the theme of linkages between farmers’ organisations, research and extension in Africa.

World Resources Institute:

Publications of research on farmer empowerment and expansion of partnerships between farmers, communities, NGO’s and other actors to achieve sustainable agriculture (Thrupp). Work on accountability and decentralisation in West Africa (Ribot).