| ID: | 86519 |
|---|---|
| Country: | Brazil |
| Title: | Brazil - Rural Micro Enterprise Promotion Programme (FO4LA) - November 2023 |
| Description: |
Manuel do Nascimento Almeida, 54 years old, works every day on packaging cabbage leaf following health standards, using clean packaging labeled with a seal that guarantees the organic quality of the products. He is part of the family farming production chain at the small farm Asa Branca in Mossoro, Rio Grande do Norte state, northeastern Brazil. With organic food production, his community in Mossoró gained a healthy option in food security. In addition to producing organic food for selling to supermarkets and open-air markets, it generates income for rural families. 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 Manuel and other farmers in Brazil to obtain an organic certification - extended by his own community members - to become an organic food producer. "We're very grateful to IFAD and the Cooperxique Cooperative for being able to help us through the project, because farmers in the Brazilian northeastern suffer, they suffer a lot", says Manuel while remembering the lack of opportunities and the challenging conditions for succeeding in agriculture activities in his community. Within the framework of the FO4LA project, the Cooperxique cooperative received support to make investments in production, bottling and agro-industrial dosing equipment, and to contract services for the implementation of the barcode system and the layout of printing plates for packaging. All this, in order to achieve market expansion with better sales prices and results of industrial-commercial activity. FO4LA is a project implemented for the first time in Latin American 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 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. |
| Size: | 34.37 MB; 3000 x 2000 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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