Support for Farmers' Cooperatives : case study report tthe role of Dutch transnational cooperatives in cooperative development

In order to foster the competitiveness of the food supply chain, the European Commission is committed to promote and facilitate the restructuring and consolidation of the agricultural sector by encouraging the creation of voluntary agricultural producer organisations. Within the framework of the SFC project, this case study report has been written on four (formerly) transnational Dutch cooperatives with operations abroad, especially in Hungary or other new member states. Of special interest for this case study is how they see their role concerning the cooperative development abroad.