Agricultural Cooperative Development
Programme Structure
The study tour will be of 12 days duration in which the participants will receive lectures by Israeli experts and study visits to agricultural sites The group will also receive excursions to Israel’s holy and historic sites. The participants will be accommodated and study at Galilee Institute study centre.
Curriculum
- Organisational Development
- Financial Management and Accounting of Cooperatives
- Leadership
- Human Resource Management in Cooperatives
- Understanding and Management of Agricultural Cooperatives
- Agricultural Cooperatives in Israel
- Tools for Planning and Organising Cooperative Activities
- Participatory Appraisal Monitoring and Evaluation
- Auditing Cooperative Societies
- Strategic Management for Cooperatives
- International Marketing for Cooperatives
- Management of Agricultural Cooperatives in a Globalization Era
- Cooperative Society Supervision
- Cooperative Desktop Publishing
Study Tours
Regional case studies of Agriculture cooperatives in Israel:
- Banana and Avocado plantations; nursery; packing house; marketing organisations
- Livestock feed processing plant – production and transport; high milk production dairy farm; intensive fish ponds
- Out of season covered vegetables for export; cherry tomato greenhouses; aromatic plant tunnels; pepper net houses
