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“We saw that if you develop a partnership that starts with the priorities of the poor, a partnership which respects the thoughts, the rhythms, the mentalities of the producers we can actually be extremely efficient. Therefore we must develop a stronger threeway partnership between FOs, FAO and IFAD.” NDiogou Fall, President, Network of Farmers’ and Agricultural Producers’ Organisations of West Africa (ROPPA) NDiogou Fall, ROPPA and Makanjuola Olaseinde Arigbede, USMEFAN, Nigeria “Farmers have a limit to the fight they can wage. But if they have a small brother like IFAD, they can do it. We are not asking an intergovernmental organisation to achieve magic. We are asking, where there is a slight dent in the knowledge of farmers, for organizations like IFAD to supply.” Olaseinde Arigbede, National Coordinator, Union of Small & Medium Scale Farmers of Nigeria (USMEFAN) partnership that starts with the priorities of the poor, a partnership which respects the thoughts, the rhythms, the mentalities of the producers we can actually be extremely efficient. Therefore we must develop a stronger three-way partnership between FOs, FAO and IFAD [...] New challenges include climate change, biofuels, and the prices of agricultural products [...] IFAD and FAO can help by providing the tools and vehicles to reverse these dangerous trends for the whole of mankind [...] We also believe that IFAD and FAO need to help us take part in discussions of land reform. We believe in this threeparty partnership, especially since IFAD and FAO have a distinct advantage in terms of accompanying FOs and having worked with them in the field.” Makanjuola Olaseinde Arigbede, National Coordinator, Union of Small & Medium Scale Farmers of Nigeria (USMEFAN), said “From all smallholder farmers in Africa, we are very grateful to be part of this process and to be able to talk to you, people who are very important in matters of food production and farming across the entire world. Farmers have a limit to the fight they can wage. But if they have a small brother like IFAD, they can do it. We are not asking an intergovernmental organisation to achieve magic. We are asking, where there is a slight dent in the knowledge of farmers, for organizations like IFAD to supply this […] If we are not able to talk to other stakeholders in clear, scientific terms, as farmers, or farmers’ leaders, then nobody takes us seriously. IFAD must play this support role, not just in terms of money, but in terms of a back-up that allows us to speak with authority. Another issue of great concern is the future of agriculture. To become a farmer is a curse in many of our countries. Yet, we are all clamouring to be able to control our food production, now and into the future. Who is going to do that? We expect IFAD to help us to find solutions to these kinds of thorny problems. We need an IFAD that is courageous and does not succumb to the big powers.” Estrella Penunia Banzuela, Secretary General, Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA), stated, “Even if agriculture remains a vital sector in Asian economies, we small men and women farmers and producers, who form the majority of the people dependent on agriculture, are still poor. Our poverty is caused by unequal distribution of natural and economic resources, and access to decision-making processes. The regional integration processes taking place in Asia are not benefiting smallholders. They are further displacing us. Women farmers bear the brunt of this, and with less income in our pockets, there is less money for food, health and education. Global warming has emerged as the most serious, yet unifying, global issue affecting every citizen, rich and poor. But it has a disproportionately serious effect on smallholders, fishers and indigenous peoples, even if we have contributed the least to it […] We look forward to IFAD in this partnership to continue mobilizing its technical and financial resources, as well as the resources of the international community, to assist farmer organizations so that we can build our capacities in policy research, analysis and formulation in order to enable us to engage our governments and the regional and 12
international intergovernmental bodies. We would like to have more ownership of IFAD projects and programmes, also in their implementation and monitoring. Not one of us is currently involved in these projects. We would like to ask if it is possible for IFAD to have representatives of farmers in its executive decision-making bodies. As this is a partnership, as a farmers group we want to take on our role, our passion to organize ourselves and understand the best we can do.” Alberto Ercilio Broch, Executive Secretary, Confederación de productores familiares del MERCOSUR (COPROFAM), said “In spite of all the efforts that are being made, hunger continues and poverty is still here. COPROFAM’s vision is that one of the drivers of the current situation is the model of agriculture and development that is implemented in many regions of the world, and particularly in Latin America – a model based on cash crops and large plantations and one that is driving the smallholder and indigenous peoples away from the land […] We see that in many countries a lot of land is being taken over by the multinationals. We must attack this very perverse model of agriculture. We want a model that is favourable to small farmers, and we believe this is possible. One of the important things is access to land, together with land tenure, access to natural resources [and] having pro-farmer policies in place. We need to have a sustainable model from the economic and social points of view. Sustainable in terms of land sovereignty and food security. We need to strengthen the model of family farming. This is why IFAD has a very important role to play. It is important to continue believing in a process of working together with associations […] but we must empower our organization if we want to break the model. That is why we believe in the Farmers’ Forum process.” “We small men and women farmers and producers, who form the majority of the people dependent on agriculture, are still poor. Our poverty is caused by unequal distribution of natural and economic resources, and access to decision-making processes.” Estrella Penunia Banzuela, Secretary General, Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) Estrella Penunia Banzuela, AFA “We see that in many countries a lot of land is being taken over by the multinationals. We must attack this very perverse model of agriculture. We want a model that is favourable to small farmers, and we believe this is possible.” Alberto Ercilio Broch, Executive Secretary, Confederación de productores familiares del MERCOSUR (COPROFAM) Alberto Ercilio Broch, COPROFAM 13
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