answer . It is better to examine and clarify all aspects , but to start immediately with the job and to start the exchanges as soon as possible , although in simplified form .
Before that , it is still important to educate the potential members of the solidarity group , giving them all the information on the functioning of the group . A competent person carried out the education , trying to motivate members to activate themselves in the group . In addition , it ispreferable to arrange immediately a market with an info point , where all those interested can get all the information and contacts needed to participate .
From the beginning , as part of educational activities , it is necessary to animate those interested in order for them to become active and to include them in the group ' s work . It ispreferable to find 2-3 persons among the most active members of the group and charge them for the management of the group . At this stage , it is important to give the group some tutors with experience in the field ( administrators of other solidarity groups ), which will follow the development of the group and will link the local ecological producers ( if any ) to the work of the solidarity group .
Strategy and criteria used to identify and locate suppliers
Having analysed in detail , even in this case , the ESG ( Ecological Solidarity Groups ) present on the territory of Istria , has emerged as set out below . The strategy and the criteria used to identify producers : the producers were chosen among the ecological and local ones that will become part of the process of formation of the producers who are members of the ESG .
The producers of the ESG must comply with the following rules :
● Its products goes primarily for the ESG , and surpluses are placed on the ESM - Ecological Solidarity Market . The qualitative products are offered in the ESG , without calculating the market price , according to the production plan that was previously granted .
● It is a certified organic farmer or a producer in the transition period , that on the market or at the meetings of the Group represents itself , its production and its products . In the event that there is no producer with ecological certificate for a specific product , will be chosen one who fulfils the criteria of production according to ecological principles and who accepts the purposes and the principles of work of the ESG . The producer undertakes , in a predetermined
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