ID: | 86522 |
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Country: | Brazil |
Title: | Brazil - Rural Micro Enterprise Promotion Programme (FO4LA) - November 2023 |
Description: |
General view of a plantation shows the contrast that an unproductive area is capable of with incentive programs for food production at the small farm Asa Branca in Mossoro, Rio Grande do Norte state, northeastern Brazil. IFAD provided the necessary support for they to obtain an organic certification - extended by his own community members - to become an organic food producer, and they guarantee that this only happened through the Cooperxique Cooperative and the FO4LA project. "I think it's the man's hand. Man is a destroyer by nature. Few care about nature. And most want to destroy." FO4LA is a project implemented for the first time in Latin Americain to increase income and to improve livelihood, food and nutrition security and safety of family farmers, who are affiliated to targeted Farmers Organizations within the region. With financial support of the European Union (EU) IFAD acts as technical and administrative managing entity. FO4LA is being carried out in Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia and Peru, together with 15 agricultural organizations participating in chains such as coffee, quinoa, cocoa and sugar cane, among others. |
Size: | 34.36 MB; 3000 x 1999 pixels; 254 x 169 mm (print at 300 DPI); 794 x 529 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
Show more details: | Ueslei Marcelino |
Copyright: | ©IFAD/Ueslei Marcelino |
Categories: | New from Latin America and the Caribbean |
URL: | www.ifad.org |