These include, in particular, strengthening the legal position of producer groups.

We are happy with its emphasis on the role of producer groups and crisis management.

All profits are used to make grants for further development of the producer groups.

Traidcraft works with more than 100 producer groups in over 30 countries around the world.

It too wanted statutory producer groups to protect jobs and profits.

The group works with producer groups and cooperatives to help expand economic activity in their communities.

It currently works with 85 small-scale, cooperatively run producer groups in 35 countries.

Several rural development measures were introduced including diversification, setting up producer groups and support for young farmers.

The relatively small number of rice growers in California are among the most heavily subsidized agricultural producer groups ever.

The state employs the national associations representing producer groups as its agents (Panitch 1979 and 1980).

The new Member States should receive more assistance to ensure producer groups that have been provisionally recognised remain in existence and are properly managed.

I support the idea of producer groups but I am not at all convinced that we will ever have the matching power of the retail sector.

Far from it, I am actually expecting the new organization of the market in vegetables to result in new developments, as we further encourage producer groups.

This is not the case, however, and the European Union only recognises producer organisations with an anti-democratic legislative framework as producer groups.

This means that the responsibility of fishermen is considerable and that producer groups in the fisheries sector deserve extra support in this.

With regard to authorisation in the sector, the tasks and responsibilities of the producer groups have to be recognised even though the rules cannot be extended.

We have taken the opportunity to simplify the legislation and to give the producer groups broader scope and more flexibility, as the last speaker rightly pointed out.

Eligible applicants are independent producers, farmer and rancher cooperatives, agricultural producer groups, and majority-controlled producer-based business ventures.

UTZ certified cooperatives, estate farms and producer groups comply with the Code of Conduct for the respective products.

The Fairtrade Foundation commissions professional photographers to take images of farmers and workers that belong to Fairtrade certified producer groups.

It accuses "particular producer groups" of "manipulating domestic environmental policies to benefit themselves at the expense of both the rest of the economy and ultimately even the environment".

This is part of good working practice to ensure that producer groups and banana growers associations are involved in the process of designing strategies for the banana sector.

Eligibility should be extended to public actors and producer groups, shifting to area-based remuneration and including in situ and ex situ conservation measures.

Reliance on monetarism rather than incomes policy meant that the government no longer had to compromise its authority in making social contracts and wages policies with producer groups, particularly the unions.

Hadeel has Fair Trade status to purchase, import and sell traditional crafts from producer groups, mainly women's cooperatives and people with special needs, providing social benefits through employment.