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IFAP

IFAP is the world farmer’s organisation. It represents more than 600 million farmer families, through 115 national organisations from 80 countries. Within this world-wide network, farmers from industrialised and developing countries are able to exchange ideas and to formulate shared priorities.

IFAP set up the ‘Development Cooperation Committee’ in order to carry out its development activities. Within the DCC, farmer’s organisations from developing countries can discuss the type of development activities they wish to carry out. AgriCord, the alliance of agri-agencies in which Agriterra participates as the Dutch member, is responsible for implementing these activities.

When carrying out the activities in the period 2007-2010, at Agriterra we follow the recommendations of IFAP concerning the reduction of poverty in rural areas and the achievement of food security. These recommendations clearly reflect the farmers’ opinions about what is required in the struggle against hunger and poverty. We particularly focus on the recommendations concerning the strengthening of rural organisations. However, we also take into consideration some of the other fifteen subjects that IFAP has formulated recommendations about, such as: the promotion of entrepreneurship, setting up diligent business by farmers, increasing the influence of rural organisations on research agendas, and of course also increasing the access to the market, while paying attention to the market power that farmers have.

In this final sprint towards the year 2015, we work together in providing a coherent support to rural people’s organisations that is required to contribute significantly to the realisation of Millennium Development Goal No. 1.