Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias (formerly the Confederation of Agricultural Cooperatives of Spain) is the organization that represents and defends the economic and social interests of the Spanish agrarian cooperative movement.

Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias is formed by 16 Federations and Territorial Unions of Agrarian Cooperatives (FUTs) and Agrocantabria (Cooperativa de 2º grado de Cantabria), which offer their services and have their scope of action in their respective Autonomous Communities.

Thus, Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias is the common organ that represents the Spanish cooperatives of all the Autonomous Communities of the Spanish territory before the national Administration, in the European Union and before the rest of the social and economic agents of the sectors in which they develop their activities agricultural cooperatives, in order to join efforts to defend the interests of farmers and ranchers.

In addition, Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias provides training, information and advisory services through its offices in Madrid and Brussels, thus contributing to the improvement of the effectiveness of agricultural cooperativism in achieving its economic, social and human ends.

Mission

The mission of Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias de España is the promotion, representation and structuring of the Spanish agro-alimentary cooperativism, promoting a cooperative business model, professionalized, with relevant dimension, generator of value and competitive, that contributes to improve the profitability of farmers and partner farmers and the sustainable development of the agri-food sector and the rural environment.