| ID: | 86512 |
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| Country: | Brazil |
| Title: | Brazil - Rural Micro Enterprise Promotion Programme (FO4LA) - November 2023 |
| Description: |
"An organic certification is our survival”, says Tiago Jose Souza while irrigating his nursery with groundwater that allows him to maintain completely green and healthy organic vegetable meadows in the middle of a rural desert. He is a producer who has been growing vegetables for 25 years at his small farm, Asa Branca, in Mossoro, Rio Grande do Norte state, northeastern Brazil. 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. “Thanks to the participatory certification at low cost we are able to maintain our customers and we respect them a lot”, Tiago said. FO4LA is a project implemented for the first time in Latin America 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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