Deadline: 19 March 2019

The Wageningen UR Centre for Development Innovation (CDI) is inviting applicants for its course on “Organised farmers as partners in agribusiness”. The course starts from 23 September 2019 until 11 October 2019 in the Netherlands.

This course perceives farmers as autonomous entrepreneurs and their organisations as farmers’ business organisations. Both operate in dynamic market systems and have to deal with a range of public and private sector players, such as sourcing companies, banks and MFI’s, agro-input dealers, research, extension and others.

The course is highly interactive and action-oriented. Participants have the opportunity to learn from the broad international experience of the trainers and from other course participants. They will relate course topics to their work situation and work on their ‘farmer business cases’.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of the course participants will:

• be familiar with state-of-the-art thinking about farmer entrepreneurship, famers’ organisations and inclusive value chain development;
• perceive ‘problems’ as ‘opportunities to approve’;
• consider alternative intervention strategies to support farmers and their organisations;
• be capable of using operational approaches and practical tools for facilitating collective action and market engagement of farmers’ organisations in their professional work context;

Eligibility Criteria

• This three-week course is aimed at professionals interested in the promotion of farmer-inclusive agribusiness.
• They welcome professionals from farmers’ organisations, governmental organisations, private sector, civil society organisations, universities, research and extension.
• Proficiency in English is required.

How to Apply

Applications can be accessed online through the website. Applicants must first have to create an account on the website and register themselves for the course.

For more information, please visit Organised farmers as partners in agribusiness.