Tag: Dieter Bouma
Key Findings from TCI’s Report on FPOs in India
Last month, we published “The State of Farmer Producer Organizations in India: Performance, Trends, and the Role of Gender.” The report offers an assessment India’s farmer producer organization (FPO) ecosystem, including survival rates, financial performance and governance models. In addition,…
New Report Offers First-Ever Assessment of India’s Farmer Producer Organizations
A new report from the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI) and the Bankers Institute of Rural Development (BIRD) Lucknow provides the first comprehensive assessment of the Indian government’s push to promote farmer producer organizations (FPOs) as a means…
How Many FPOs Are There in India? How We Counted the Number of Farmer Producer Organizations
Farmer producer organizations (FPOs) have the potential to significantly aid smallholder agricultural development through the power of aggregation. In India, where most farms are smaller than a hectare, well-functioning FPOs can boost farm incomes through better market linkages and increased…
Dieter Bouma
Dieter Bouma is a research support specialist at TCI working to improve agricultural markets and technical support for small farmers and generate new knowledge about farmer producer organizations (FPOs) through the development of an FPO Platform for India. Dieter has…