Cooperatives How cooperatives can hold the keys to food sovereignty
By forming alliances, getting closer or merging, agricultural cooperatives acquire the most effective means to respond to their markets and to societal demands. But this is not enough according to La Coopération agricole.
Posted on December 15, 2021- By
Sylvie Carriat
The Union of Blétanol cooperatives was created to organize the participation of cereal growers in the Cristanol company. Here, the Bazancourt ethanol plant.
© J.-M. Lisse / Champagne Cereals“Size is not an objective for a cooperative group, recalls Dominique Chargé, president of La Coopération agricole. It must respond to the logic of the activity and the needs of the markets and members. However, the president believes that "many cooperatives play on the size effect to compensate for significant losses in profitability". It refers to the economic study carried out in 2019 by the High Council for Agricultural Cooperation (HCCP).
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