Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
associations d’usagers
English translation:
users' associations
Added to glossary by
Julie Barber
Nov 6, 2007 15:46
16 yrs ago
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French term
United Kingdom
associations d’usagers
French to English
Social Sciences
International Org/Dev/Coop
La contribution de la FAO pourrait être requise pour permettre la prise en charge des aspects relatifs à l’amélioration qualitative et quantitative de la production, à la formation et l’accompagnement des exploitants / **associations d’usagers** et des jeunes aux techniques culturales, fourniture des intrants, etc.; au suivi et évaluation de la production / des rendements /des prix, à la gestion des ressources en eau et à l’appropriation de l’ensemble du processus par les exploitants/associations des bénéficiaires, étant en majorité des jeunes.
Context: creating jobs. I'm a bit confused with this one in the context of the sentence. Later in the para there is exploitants/associations des bénéficiaires..
thanks
Context: creating jobs. I'm a bit confused with this one in the context of the sentence. Later in the para there is exploitants/associations des bénéficiaires..
thanks
Proposed translations
(English)
| 3 +7 | users' associations |
Angela Dickson (X)
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| 4 | consumers' associations |
Diane de Cicco
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| 3 | user communities |
Michael Tovbin
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Proposed translations
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users' associations
Could be water users' associations (as there is a mention of water in your sentence) or it could be more general. The idea is that it is an association of people who use a particular service (there's a Rail Transport Users' Association in the UK, for example).
Note from asker:
| ah thanks for the suggested explanation. I couldn't quite see what it was doing there, but it's true that there's plenty of talk of various infrastructures in the text... |
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "thanks for this. I double checked on the internet and found various example within the context. Thanks for the other answers too. "
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Michael Tovbin
United States
United States
Native in English
Works in field
United States
Commitment to Quality and Deadlines
Native in: English (Variant: US) 
, Russian (Variant: Standard-Russia)
Works in: Russian to English, French to English, English to Russian, and 1 more.
user communities
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1 hr
Diane de Cicco
France
France
Native in French
&
English
Specializes in field
France
Specialty: Biology, Chemistry, Medicine
Native in: English , French
Works in: English to French, French to English
Related KudoZ points
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12
consumers' associations
more usual than users' association,I think
Note from asker:
| Hi Diane. I did think of this one after the other answers, although it feels odd given a setting of extreme poverty...but thanks. I think this would normally be more correct, although I'm not sure for this case |
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