| ID: | 86511 |
|---|---|
| Country: | Brazil |
| Title: | Brazil - Rural Micro Enterprise Promotion Programme (FO4LA) - November 2023 |
| Description: |
Though the Farmers Organizations for Latin America project (FO4LA), which helped farmers organizations to improve their local businesses, IFAD and the Cooperxique Cooperative have provided key support for Tiago Jose Souza and other farmers from Mossoro, Rio Grande do Norte state, northeastern Brazil, for obtaining an organic certification - extended by his own community members - to become organic food producers. The seedlings on their fields are irrigated using solar panels that pump a water system twice a day. "Our vegetables are natural and free from health risks, so that our consumers don't get sick in the future", Tiago said. “The community certifiers periodically inspect our production and verify if everything is up to standards”. 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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