ACAP

Name

ACAP

Legal name

Association des Chambres d'Agriculture des Pyrénées

Website

https://agriculturepyrenees.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2008

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Agricultural Policy Advocacy

NAICS

Business Associations (813910), Social Advocacy Organizations (8133), Environment, Conservation and Wildlife Organizations (813312)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Environmental Education & Outreach (BPAGAGAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Climate Adaptation & Resilience Programs (BPADALAD), Climate Policy, Governance & NDC Support (BPADALAA), Environmental, Climate & Sustainability Standards & Reporting Cooperation (BPADANAI)

Keywords

• Agricultural policy advocacy
• Mountain farming coordination
• Pastoralism support services
• Rural development network
• Cross-border agricultural cooperation

Headquarters

HQ city

Foix

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Institutional and Public Funding: ACAP is funded through institutional and public financial partners including the European Union, French Ministry of Agriculture, Regions (Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Occitanie), and local government bodies. It receives funding through programs such as the Convention Interrégionale de Massif (CPIER) which channels European, state, regional, and departmental funds. The organization also participates in European-funded projects such as POCTEFA Pirinnovi and LIFE-funded Pyrénées4Clima.
2. Membership Contributions: As a federation of the six departmental agricultural chambers of the Pyrenees massif, ACAP likely receives contributions from its member chambers. The association was created in 2008 by these chambers to pool reflections on mountain dimensions and bring additional coherence to their mountain-support actions.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

ACAP is a federating non-profit association that represents the six departmental agricultural chambers of the Pyrenees massif, providing political advocacy for mountain agriculture at European, national, and regional levels, coordinating collective pastoralism management across 1,200 summer pastures, and delivering cross-border cooperation projects such as POCTEFA Pirinnovi and the LIFE-funded Pyrénées4Clima climate adaptation program. Its deliverables include white papers, prospective studies, documentary films, and technical expertise channeled to farmers through its member chamber network.

Product overview

ACAP (Association des chambres d'agriculture des Pyrénées) is a federation of six departmental agricultural chambers across the Pyrenees massifs (Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Hautes-Pyrénées, Haute-Garonne, Ariège, Aude, and Pyrénées-Orientales). It is not a technology product company; its offering consists of advocacy and lobbying services, agricultural policy expertise, network coordination for mountain agriculture, transboundary cooperation projects (e.g., POCTEFA Pirinnovi, Pyrénées4Clima), documentary film production, and experience-sharing publications. The organization organizes its work around five strategic pillars: securing and renewing production systems, positioning agriculture as a driver of rural development, communication and promotion of Pyrenean agriculture, cross-border cooperation, and territorial management of agricultural land.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Federation of Pyrenees departmental agricultural chambers
• White papers on Pyrenees mountain agriculture policy
• POCTEFA Pirinnovi cross-border cooperation project
• Pyrénées4Clima climate adaptation project (LIFE)
• Plan Avenir Pastoralisme 2023-2027
• Documentary films on Pyrenees pastoralism (L'ADN des Pyrénées, Pirinnovi)

Quantifiable outcome

• Influenced the 2015 CAP reform to recognize low-productivity pastoral surfaces as eligible for EU agricultural subsidies
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

21 partnerships are on record, tiered core and supporting.

• Pyrenees4Clima Consortium (46 Partners)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 October 2023LIFE-funded project (October 2023 - December 2030) led by OPCC, involving 46 French, Spanish, and Andorran partners. ACAP focuses on analyzing climate change impacts on pastoral activities and testing adaptation solutions on 2 pilot sites. French partners include Agence des Pyrénées, FORESPIR, Météo France, CBN PMP, GECT-Pyrénées, CNRS, CEREMA, NEO, Parc National des Pyrénées. Spanish partners include CSIC, CREAF-UAB, ICGC, SMC, UPC, Universidad de Barcelona, Observatoire de l'Èbre, CITA, Fundesa, NATURKLIMA.
• Plan Avenir Pastoralisme 2023-2027 SignatoriescoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 15 June 2023Multi-party agreement signed June 15, 2023 at Col du Soulor, Hautes-Pyrénées. Signatories include ACAP, Préfet of Occitanie, Occitanie/Méditerranée Region, Pyrénées-Atlantiques Region, and all 6 Pyrenees departments (Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Hautes-Pyrénées, Haute-Garonne, Ariège, Aude, Pyrénées-Orientales). Approved by the Comité de Massif des Pyrénées on March 31, 2023.
• CGET (Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations - now Agence Nationale de la Cohésion des Territoires)supportingOthersListed as an institutional and financial partner of ACAP. CGET (now part of the Agence Nationale de la Cohésion des Territoires) supports cohesion and territorial development policies in France.
• Région Nouvelle-AquitainecoreOthersOne of two regional councils that are member founders of ACAP. Co-signatory of the Convention Interrégionale de Massif (CPIER) and partner in the Plan Avenir Pastoralisme 2023-2027.
• Ministère de l'Alimentation, de l'Agriculture et de la Pêche (French Ministry of Agriculture)coreOthersListed as institutional and financial partner. The ministry oversees national agricultural policy and CAP implementation in France, and the Préfet of Occitanie signed the Plan Avenir Pastoralisme on behalf of the state.
• Région OccitaniecoreOthersOne of two regional councils that are member founders of ACAP. Co-signatory of the CPIER and Plan Avenir Pastoralisme 2023-2027. Coordinates with the Préfet of Occitanie on mountain policy.
• European UnioncoreOthersPrimary funder through European programs including LIFE (Pyrénées4Clima project, 60% funded), POCTEFA (Pirinnovi cross-border project), and European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development via the Convention Interrégionale de Massif.
• EuromontanacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEuropean mountain association network. ACAP participates in Euromontana events including the 9th European Mountains Assizes (2014), contributing to EU mountain policy discussions and cross-border cooperation frameworks.
• ANEM (Association Nationale des Élus de la Montagne)supportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerPart of the French inter-massif network. ANEM brings together elected officials from French mountain territories to advocate for mountain interests at national level.
• Chambre Agriculture FrancecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe national-level chamber of agriculture organization in France. Part of the inter-massif network, providing national-level coordination for regional and departmental agricultural chambers.
• Institut de l'Élevage (Idele)supportingTechnology or IntegrationFrench livestock institute providing technical expertise and research in animal husbandry. Listed as a Pyrenees technical network partner, contributing technical knowledge to ACAP's livestock and pastoralism programs.
• Association des AFP et GP (Associations Foncieres Pastorales et Groupements Pastoraux)coreTechnology or IntegrationNetwork of pastoral land associations and pastoral groups in the Pyrenees. Core technical partners for ACAP's collective pastoralism management activities, particularly in the Pyrénées-Orientales (66).
• Fédération Pastorale de l'AriègecoreTechnology or IntegrationPastoral federation in Ariège department, listed as a Pyrenees technical network partner supporting ACAP's pastoralism coordination and collective management activities.
• GIP-CRPGE (Gestion Intérêt Public - Centre de Ressources sur le Pastoralisme et la Gestion des Espaces)supportingTechnology or IntegrationPublic interest group serving as a resource center for pastoralism and space management. Provides knowledge and expertise supporting ACAP's pastoralism mission.
• Centre Départemental de l'Élevage Ovin (CDEO)supportingTechnology or IntegrationSheep farming development center in Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64), contributing technical expertise on sheep production to ACAP's network.
• Races de MassifsupportingTechnology or IntegrationAssociation of mountain breeds organizations, contributing expertise on indigenous mountain livestock genetics and breed conservation relevant to Pyrenees pastoralism.
• POCTEFA Pirinnovi PartnerscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCross-border Franco-Spanish cooperation project under POCTEFA (Programme Interreg V-A Spain-France-Andorra). Partners include: CITA (Centro de Investigación en Tecnología Agroalimentaria de Aragón), Universidad de Zaragoza, Oviaragon-Grupo Pastores (sheep cooperative), and Spanish breed associations (Ansotana, Navarra). Project aims to better valorize sheep productions in the Pyrenees through genetic and reproductive innovations.
• SIDAM (Service Inter-massifs d'Animation du Massif Central)supportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerPart of the French inter-massif network. Supports coordination and knowledge-sharing across French mountain massifs on agricultural development.
• SUACI (Service d'Utilité Agricole Système alpin)supportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerPart of the French inter-massif network, bringing together Alpine chamber agriculture organizations for cross-massif coordination on mountain agricultural policy.
• Chambre d'Agriculture de CorsesupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerPart of the inter-massif network, connecting Corsican agricultural chamber with other French mountain massifs through shared policy and development frameworks.
• ARDAR Massif du JurasupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerPart of the inter-massif network representing the Jura mountain massif, participating in cross-massif coordination with the Pyrenees through ACAP.

Scale indicators17 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• FNSEA (Fédération Nationale des Syndicats d'Exploitants Agricoles): France's dominant national farmers' union. Comparable as an agricultural advocacy organization, but operates at national scale across all farm types (not just mountain), and represents a broader commercial-farmer political base rather than a territory-specific chamber federation.
• Chambres d'agriculture France (APCA): National-level umbrella organization of France's agricultural chambers. ACAP is one of ACAP's member chambers' national coordinator; the APCA provides the overarching national chamber system in which ACAP's six departmental chambers sit, with overlapping policy advocacy and coordination mandate.

Direct peers

• Association AFP/GP (Associations Foncières Pastorales et Groupements Pastoraux): National federation of pastoral land associations and pastoral groups in France. Operates at the same pastoral-land-management intersection as ACAP, with technical expertise on collective land use that complements ACAP's mountain-massif advocacy.
• Euromontana: European multi-country association for mountain regions and mountain agriculture. Closest structural peer to ACAP: a federating, advocacy-driven network operating across multiple member organizations, focused on EU mountain and agricultural policy. ACAP is an active Euromontana member.
• SUACI Mont-Blanc (Service d'Utilité Agricole Système Alpin): Inter-chamber coordination structure for the French Alps mountain massif. Most directly comparable peer to ACAP in mission and structure — federating Alpine agricultural chambers to advocate mountain-specific agricultural policy at EU, national, and regional levels.
• Fédération Pastorale de l'Ariège: Pastoral federation operating within ACAP's own Ariège department. Directly comparable as a pastoralism-specific coordination body supporting collective land management, summer pasture coordination, and mountain livestock advocacy.
• ANEM (Association Nationale des Élus de la Montagne): National association of elected officials from French mountain territories. Comparable to ACAP in convening mountain-interest stakeholders across multiple regions and in advocating French and EU mountain policy, though from the elected-officials rather than agricultural-chamber angle.
• SIDAM (Service Inter-massifs d'Animation du Massif Central): Coordination structure for the Massif Central mountain region in France. Directly comparable to ACAP as a regional inter-massif coordination body for mountain agriculture, working with chambers, regions, and national-level partners on mountain-specific policy.
• Chambre d'Agriculture de Corse: Corsican regional agricultural chamber. Part of the same French inter-massif network as ACAP, with a comparable mountain/insular agricultural mandate and participation in national and EU policy advocacy for its territory.
• ARDAR Massif du Jura: Association for agricultural and rural development in the Jura massif. Functions as ACAP's inter-massif counterpart for the Jura range, coordinating mountain agricultural policy positions across departmental chambers.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/acap.pyrenees
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/association-des-chambres-d-agriculture-des-pyr%C3%A9n%C3%A9es

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles15 records

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