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.

AgriCord was established in 2003. "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.

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