Motivating a sizable number of farming families to use coordinated resource management is crucial for long-term agricultural sustainability. This might be done for a variety of reasons, including but not limited to: pest and predator management, nutrient management, aquifer and surface water course pollution control, coordinated livestock management, soil and water resource conservation, and seed stock management. The issue is that most locations lack mechanisms for collaborative decision making to oversee the administration of such assets.

cooperative, principles of cooperation, farm forestry, sustainable rural livelihoods.