Growers who do not wish to transition to organic production have found partnerships to be an attractive way to learn more about alternative practices.
In four of the partnerships, voluntary sector members were very positive about the contributions they had been able to make.
While these partnerships appear to be working well, they are few in number and modest components of philanthropic programs.
Processes of commercialization generally benefited independent female entrepreneurship over the more traditional husband and wife partnerships.
As one representative of the industry recently stated 'it may be difficult to develop close partnerships if you start out by kicking the door in'.
The voluntary nature of partnerships facilitates the active contribution of growers and private consultants pre-disposed to experimenting with agroecological approaches.
In cases involving male business partnerships the various ways by which one might end up calling the other a ' cheat ' hardly need spelling out.
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