The MSF Project aims to stablish a Multi-stakeholder forum on sustainable banana production and trade (MSF). This Forum will provide a space in which farmer organizations, exporter groups, trading companies, worker unions, retailers, governments and civil society organizations can discuss the various challenges and opportunities facing the banana sector and jointly seek solutions through collaboration. More specifically, the MSF will serve for:
- Exchanging information on best practices and sustainable development projects (e.g. techniques and systems for sustainable banana production).
- Jointly designing and implementing field research projects to produce best practices in banana production (these projects will be based on collaboration in the field among all relevant actors, including governments and their technical agencies; e.g. research institutes, extension services).
- Assessing workplace issues and encouraging the adoption of practices that are consistent with ILO core conventions and recommendations and guarantee gender equity.
- Suggesting strategies which correct inefficiencies in the banana value chain while guaranteeing fair prices and earnings for all the relevant actors.
The Forum will focus its activities on finding practical solutions to field problems and it will undertake projects that can rapidly generate gains for all stakeholders: producers, farm workers, traders, retailers and governments.
