| ID: | 86520 |
|---|---|
| Country: | Brazil |
| Title: | Brazil - Rural Micro Enterprise Promotion Programme (FO4LA) - November 2023 |
| Description: |
Every week, Tiago Jose Souza prepares a shipment of lettuce that will be sold in supermarkets from his city. He is a producer who has been growing vegetables for 25 years at the small farm Asa Branca in Mossoro, Rio Grande do Norte state, northeastern Brazil. He inspects his lettuce crops every day to verify its adequate growth. A few years after starting his business he discovered the Cooperxique Cooperative and joined it to accomplish his dream of becoming a more successful farmer by accessing to organic markets. Though the Farmers Organizations for Latin America project (FO4LA), which helped farmers organizations to improve, IFAD and the Cooperxique Cooperative have provided key support for Tiago and other farmers in Brazil to obtain an organic certification - extended by his own community members - to become an organic food producer. "Participatory certification has allowed us to take our quality-based vegetables to local markets, hospitals and schools”, Tiago points. 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 Organizationss within the region. With financial support of the European Union (EU) IFAD acts as technical and administrative managing entity. FO4LA has covered Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia and Peru, together with 15 agricultural organizations participating in value chains such as coffee, quinoa, cocoa and sugar cane, among others. The project has been especially relevant when the problems historically suffered by small farmer organizations in the region (insecure land tenure, lack of mechanization, ecosystem degradation, price volatility, limited access to quality inputs and support services weak) have been aggravated by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean. |
| 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 |
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