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Leadership for change in farmers' organizations

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With globalization and liberalization of economies farmers organizations from the developing world face the challenges of participating in a highly competitive marketplace. In the present economies, the new policies have reduced or removed heavy state interventions and left it to a free market. The policy shift requires that farmers take charge of some of the roles played by the governments. To be in charge and reap benefits from globalization, farmers need to cultivate leadership skills to enable them cope with and manage change. Managing and leading change requires developing skills such as strategic thinking and visioning, goal and priority setting, planning as well as team building that resolve conflict while assessing group dynamics in farmers’ organization. This training is built on the experiences of the Swedish Cooperative Centre in collaboration with the Uganda Cooperative Alliance; it is designed for leaders and trainers of farmers organizations to get access to such needed tools to enhance leadership skills that will produce effective leaders to lead and manage change
    Publication year

    2005

    Authors

    Abaru M B; Kabuga C; Masake R

    Language

    English

    Keywords

    agroforestry, farmers organizations, governance, planning, training

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