PRIVATE SECTOR

The term covers: private individuals (including entrepreneurs, landowners, farmers, etc.); private companies (local, national and transnational) active at different stages of the food supply chain (e.g. production, storage and distribution, processing and packaging, retail and markets); commercial banks; cooperatives and other forms of organizations in the “social economy” with a private legal status; private foundations; other private organizations, institutions or federations – this category also includes publicly owned companies with a private legal status.