Project results
The COFAMI project studied the potential role of collective farmers's marketing inititaives in finding adequate responses to changing market and policy conditions (for details see 'Variety of COFAMIs across Europe'). More specifically it aimed to identfy the social, economic, cultural and political factors that limit or enable the development of such initiatives (see 'Limiting and enabling factors'). The core of the research project comprise of 18 case-studies in 10 countries (see' Case studies'). The project seeked also to explore the societal impact of COFAMIs and to identify viable strategies and support measures to enhance the operating as well as societal perfromance of of collective farmers' marketing initiatives (see 'Societal impact of COFAMIs').