The EDC initiative aims to build a global network of excellence, for generating and disseminating knowledge about cooperative agribusiness in developing countries, promoting and facilitating north-south and south-south inter-cooperation, and scaling-up good cooperative development practices.
To do so, the EDC initiative promotes and facilitates information sharing (see news & opportunities), cross-country exchanges and participation in international academic and policy-making fora among the various members of its network. The latter includes the following organizations, with whom EDC has successfully collaborated in the past or it is still collaborating today:
Development Agencies
- USAID, Cooperative Development Office
- FAO-Malawi
- NCBA-CLUSA
- Ford Foundation
- The United States African Development Foundation, USADF
- IFAD-Uganda
- Land o’Lakes International Development
- Global Communities
- ACDI-VOCA
- Agriterra
- AGRA-FOSCA
Research/Education Institutes
- International Food Policy Research Institute, West/Central Africa Office (IFPRI-WCAO)
- European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprise (EURICSE)
- Division of Economics of Agricultural Cooperatives, Humboldt University (Berlin, Germany)
- LEI Wageningen University, the Netherlands
- Policy Analysis and Development Research Institute (PADRI) Makerere University, Uganda
- Moshi Cooperative University (MoCU, Tanzania)
- Agricultural Economics and Policy Research Institute (AGRERI, Greece)
- Agriculture, Cooperative Studies and Sustainable Development; University of Almería (Spain)
- Bordeaux Sciences Agro, INRA SDA, France
- Institute of Cooperatives and Development Studies (ICDS), Ambo University (Ethiopia)
Service Providers
- Ease-Agriculture Co. Ltd. (Uganda)
- K-rep Development Agency (Kenya)
- FIT Uganda Ltd (Uganda)
- SCOPEinsight (the Netherlands, Kenya, Uganda)
- Progreso (the Netherlands)
- La Plateforme des initiatives du Nord (PINORD, Senegal)
- Kalangala Oil Palm Growers Trust (KOPGT, Uganda)
Farmer Organizations and Agricultural Cooperatives
- Cadre de Concertation de Producteur d’Arachide (CCPA Senegal)
- Union des Producteurs Horticoles du département de Bakel (UPHORBAK, Senegal)
- ASPRODEB (SENEGAL)
- Association des Producteurs de Coton Africains (AProCA)
- Kenya Dairy Farmers Federation
- Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions (SACAU, South Africa)
- Selale Dairy Cooperative Union (Ethiopia)
- Addis Ababa Saving and Credit Cooperative Union (Ethiopia)
- Ada’a Dairy Cooperative (Ethiopia)
- Becho-Woliso Farmers Cooperative Union Ltd (Ethiopia)
- Farmers Union of Malawi (FUM)
- Malawi Union of Savings and Credit Cooperatives (MUSCCO)
- National Smallholder Farmers Association of Malawi (NASFAM)
- Ghanaian Farmer-Based Organizations
- Kibinge Coffee Farmers’ Co-operative Society (Uganda)
- Uganda Oilseeds PKWI Women Cooperative
- Kilicafe (Tanzania)
- Ugandan agricultural cooperatives and farmer organizations
