An
agricultural cooperative, also known as a
farmers' co-op, is a
cooperative where
farmers pool their resources in certain areas of activity. A broad typology of agricultural cooperatives distinguishes between
agricultural service cooperatives, which provide various services to their individually farming members, and
agricultural production cooperatives, where production resources (land, machinery) are pooled and members farm jointly. Examples of agricultural production cooperatives include
collective farms in
former socialist countries, the
kibbutzim in Israel, collectively governed
community shared agriculture,
Longo Mai co-operatives and Nicaraguan production co-operatives.