Farmers' organisations including NGOs should not work against each other but rather seek partnerships as all of them have a role to play and usually good intentions. IFAP could play the role of facilitating partnerships among various agricultural sector players. This would make it possible for coherent, plausible and bankable plans on sustainable agriculture to be developed. Worry was expressed about weak financial organisations which sing the tunes of donors instead of the concerns and problems of farmers. While championing autonomy, farmers' organisations need to develop good working relations with governments.
Credible organisations find it easier to do so.
Farmers' organisations are self-help organisations just as IFAP is. When IFAP does a commendable job of linking member organisations with funding agencies, it behoves these organisations to develop homegrown plans and proposals and seek funding instead of treating IFAP as a donor. While there is a lot of vital information that would be useful to farmers' organisation on the Internet, it is scattered and not systematically organised for easy use by farmers' organisations. It would be a useful service to members if IFAP created a website of information critical to farmers needs from which farmers would download what they need to use. Member organisations should not only be pre-occupied with what IFAP can or cannot do for them.