Objective Collective Farmers Marketing Initiatives (COFAMIs) potentially provide an answer to the challenges set to European farmers by changing market and policy ditions. By pooling ideas, experiences and capital they enable farmers to build up market knowledge and linkages, and create a favourable environment for the dissemination of skills and best practices. Also, centration of offer may open up scale advantages, strengthen the collective bargaining power of producers, and make them attractive market partners for retailers operating at larger scales. More generally, COFAMIs have the potential to reinforce rural incomes and employment, strengthen synergies with other eomic activities, and bring agriculture more in line with the demands set by wider society. This project aims to strengthen the role of COFAMIs by identifying the social, eomic, cultural and political factors that limit/enable their development. Additionally, it seeks to formulate viable support strategies to enhance their performance, dissemination and tinuity. By means of national status-quo analyses and a set of in-depth case studies it addresses the existing diversity of COFAMIs in Europe to determine the relative influence of different types of limiting/enabling factors. The project brings together research groups from 10 countries, covering all relevant regions of the enlarged EU. Participatory methods and stakeholder sultation play a key role in the research, to ensure that outcomes are optimally grounded in field experiences and to tribute to policy developments with proposals that meet the support of stakeholder groups. By means of a European Expert Group the expertise mobilised in the project and its geographical coverage is further enhanced. As such, the project aims to tribute to the development of a European Research Area in the field of collective marketing approaches and their role in promoting sustainable rural development and food production. Fields of science social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managemententrepreneurshipagricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculturesocial scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementemployment Programme(s) FP6-POLICIES - Policy support: Specific activities covering wider field of research under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006. Topic(s) POLICIES-1.1 - The modernisation and sustainability of agriculture and forestry Call for proposal FP6-2003-SSP-3 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinator WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY EU contribution No data Address Costerweg 50 WAGENINGEN Netherlands See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (10) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT BIOLOGISCHE LANDWIRTSCHAFT Switzerland EU contribution No data Address Ackerstrasse FRICK See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data QAP DECISION France EU contribution No data Address Château Jail THEYS See on map Total cost No data INSTITUT FUER LAENDLICHE STRUKTURFORSCHUNG AN DER JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE UNIVERSITAET FRANKFURT / INSTITUTE FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH Germany EU contribution No data Address Zeppelinallee 31 FRANKFURT See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITÄT INNSBRUCK Austria EU contribution No data Address Innrain 52 INNSBRUCK See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data BALTIC STUDIES CENTRE Latvia EU contribution No data Address ROSTOKAS STREET 60-24 RIGA See on map Total cost No data CENTRO RICERCHE PRODUZIONI ANIMALI CRPA SPA Italy EU contribution No data Address Corso Garibaldi 42 REGGIO EMILIA See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES Denmark EU contribution No data Address PO Box 50 TJELE See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data INSTITUTE FOR POLITICAL SCIENCES, AT HUNGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Hungary EU contribution No data Address Országház 30 PF 694/115 BUDAPEST See on map Total cost No data CZECH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE IN PRAGUE Czechia EU contribution No data Address Kamýcká 129 PRAGUE See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITY OF AARHUS Denmark EU contribution No data Address Nordre Ringgade 1 AARHUS C See on map Total cost No data
