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Il nous faut du temps pour organiser nos marchés internes, et pour ne pas être victimes des marchés mondiaux. Ensemble, agriculteurs du Sud et du Nord, nous devons faire comprendre ce message à nos gouvernements.
Samba Guéye, Président du Conseil National de Concertation des Ruraux (CNCR) au Sénégal

Il nous faut du temps pour organiser nos marchés internes, et pour ne pas être victimes des marchés mondiaux. Ensemble, agriculteurs du Sud et du Nord, nous devons faire comprendre ce message à nos gouvernements.
Samba Guéye, Président du Conseil National de Concertation des Ruraux (CNCR) au Sénégal

In India, small farmers too can produce for markets, and even contract with multinational companies. This is not easy, but our organisation has been able to facilitate this. We sell mango to Coca-Cola.
P. Chengal Reddy, Chairman of the Federation of Farmers' Associations Andrah Pradesh (FFA-AP) India

There are different ways and strategies for farmers to get organised, and to set up the type of organisation that best serves their interests. We strongly believe that this should be a global discussion, involving farmers' organisations from developing countries and emerging economies, as well as those from OECD countries.
Elisabeth Gauffin, vice-President of LRF ( Lantbrukarnas Riksförbund), the Federation of Swedish Farmers

Cooperativas deben ser suficientement solidas para tener buenas posiciones de negocación, y para poder ofrecer servicios de calidad a sus miembros, especialmente en relacion con credito y capacitacion.
Carlos Fidel Simancas Narvaez, el Presidente del Grupo Empresarial del Campo (CONFECAMPO) Colombia

AgriCord's ambition, through the "Farmers Fighting Poverty" programme, is to reach the local farmers' level, genuinely involving women, and to stimulate economic initiatives at a local level.
Laurent Pellerin, president of AgriCord

Our challenge is to create cooperatives and other farmer-led initiatives, and to learn from other organisations, in developing countries as well as in the North. We want to process our Kenyan coffea, and to import it into Europe without heavy tariffs
E. Nduati Kariuki,Chairman of KENFAP, the Kenya National Federation of Agricultural Producers

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About AgriCord

The national farmers' organisations of Belgium, Canada (Quebec), Finland, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Sweden join in AgriCord, and support "Farmers Fighting Poverty", with the conviction that only by working together can farmers break their isolation, enter the market place and pull themselves out of poverty. Farmers' own organisations can provide farm and business services, institutional access, confidence and voice to their poor members.

For this reason, we work to build stronger farmers' organisations together with our fellow farmers in the rural areas of developing countries. This is not an easy task in often challenging environments. Investments have to be made with a long term view, and we thank our donors for supporting this effort.

"Farmers Fighting Poverty" is in operation since 2007. It operates as a fund managed by AgriCord, and provides support to farmers' organisations in the developing world. At heart this is an exercise in alleviating poverty, because the rural poor are some of the neediest people in the world, and they number more than 800 million.

AgriCord was established in 2003.

Its members include the following seven agri-agencies, which represent their respective national farmers' organisations:

AFDI for FNSEA, APCA, CNJA, CNMCCA (France)

Agriterra for LTO, SSVO, NCR and NAJK (The Netherlands)

CSA for Fédération Wallonne de l'Agriculture (Belgium)

FERT for the group Céréaliers de France (AGPB, AGPM, ARVALIS, UNIGRAINS)

SCC for the Federation of Swedish Farmers (Sweden)

Trias for Boerenbond, Landelijke Gilden, KVLV and KLJ (Belgium)

UPA DI for l'Union de Producteurs Agricoles (Québec, Canada)

Its associated members are

CAP-Portugal

CIA-Italy

MTK-Finland

UPA-Spain

Worldwide a strategic partnership is established with IFAP