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Morocco - A case study on the agricultural cooperative COPAG

The milk and dairy sector is one branch of the food industry that has gone through the most rapid restructuring. This is partly due to the economic incentives offered by the State (the milk plan), but mainly to the organisational capacities of small and medium-sized producers.1 Although many cooperatives coming into the market have failed, there have been a number of successes, the biggest of which is undoubtedly COPAG, an agricultural cooperative based in the region of Souss Massa.

Togo - Promoting service provider and producer organisations: A case study of Soja NYO

This case study on the Togolese company Soja Nyo describes an innovative mechanism for including small producers in a dynamic sector of the agrifood market: the soya commodity chain. Service provider and producer organisations (SPPOs) are an organisational innovation that have been put in place with support from the Centre International de Développement et de Recherche (CIDR) to enable small producers in various African countries to gain sustainable access to more lucrative markets, by involving them in strategies and decision-making downstream from their production.

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