FAO and COPROFAM strike new agreement supporting peasant, Indigenous and family farmers
A five-year Memorandum of Understanding between the two organizations seeks to strengthen technical capacities, promote dialogues on public policy, enhance participation and jointly mobilize resources
Against the backdrop of the FAO Regional Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Confederation of Family Producer Organizations of Expanded Mercosur (COPROFAM) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Georgetown, Guyana in March 2024.
The partnership sets out joint high-level objectives on eliminating hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition; making agriculture, forestry, and fisheries more productive and sustainable; and collaborating to reduce rural poverty.
A five-year framework lays out a shared path to strengthen the technical capacities of peasant, Indigenous Peoples and family farmers’ organizations; promote dialogues on public policies between them and other governmental and non-governmental actors; manage knowledge and technical cooperation and jointly mobilize resources.
Through the partnership, FAO will be able to reach COPROFAM’s association of ten organizations – from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay – as well as 125 grassroots entities representing more than four million members, who will likewise receive the benefit of this partnership.
FAO and COPROFAM have a long-standing collaboration. In 2010, the two organizations signed a Memorandum of Cooperation, followed by a Letter of Intent in 2018. COPROFAM is actively involved in the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) and participates in the UN Decade of Family Farming 2019-2028 in the Latin America and the Caribbean region.
COPROFAM is a non-profit civil association consisting of ten national organizations from seven countries and represents close to four million Indigenous Peoples, peasant, and family farmers.
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