Since the establishment of the Egyptian Association for Economic and Social Rights in 2009, peasants’ issue, especially the poor and small- scale farmers, men and women working in the agricultural sector are considered as its high priorities. As the majority of the Egyptians are peasants living in the countryside of Egypt, 17.5 million farmers (5.5 million men, five million women working in the agricultural sector, 7.5 million agricultural workers). Although Cooperative work started in 1907 in Egypt, agricultural cooperatives are still weak as the administrative authorities reduce farmers’ role, especially after the declaration of trade union declaration in March 2012, which led to the establishment of many syndicates of small farmers, and women and men workers in the agricultural sector. The association established around 33 unions. In 2014 the role of these unions was suspended. In 2017 and after the establishment of Freedom of Association Law number 213 which required the re-examination of the conditions of those associations that were established under more difficult conditions and bureaucratic restrictions. Despite all of the restrictions, the association succeeded in establishing 4 agricultural syndicates. The association has its strategy in dealing with farmers in the countryside of Egypt such as the strategy of the right to organize and the strategy of legal defense
