The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) of the United Nations and the European Union Today they launched a program to advise small farmers’ organizations in Latin America and strengthen their structure and access to markets.
The project “Support for small farmers organizations in Latin America” (FO4LA) will serve to strengthen the structure and productive capacity and access to markets of these farmers in the region, according to a statement.
It will be implemented by the Confederation of Family Producers ‘Organizations of the Expanded Mercosur (Coprofam), an alliance of Latin American small farmers’ associations, and by AgriCord, a global alliance of 13 cooperation agencies.
“FO4LA” will support small farmers in their various forms — producer organizations, associations, cooperatives, savings and credit cooperatives, among others — to improve their managerial, institutional, technical, and governance capacities.
This will allow family farms to better interact with other actors in the agricultural sector, improve their participation in the market, generate employment and opportunities for the rural population, especially for young people and women, predicts IFAD.
The project will directly benefit twelve small farmer organizations in Bolivia, Brazil, Peru and Paraguay, although its promoters believe that the “lessons learned” in these four countries can be replicated throughout the region.
The program will allow small farmers to participate in negotiations on public policies that affect them and will place these farms in value chains oriented to national markets, exports and the development of “climate-smart” agriculture techniques, among other things.
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