This Thursday, April 24, 2024, a meeting was held in Georgetown between farmers' organizations representatives to discuss strategies to foster better coordination and establish a National Association of Family Farmers in Guyana. 

Over 18 representatives from 16 farmers' organizations from Cuba, Jamaica, Belize, Guyana, Grenada, Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines will exchange practices in Brazil to explore the ground solutions to increase their resilience and productive capacity.

This activity is part of the Project Farmer Organizations for the ACP, financed by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and implemented by FAO and PROCASUR with the support of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Rural Development in St. Lucia.

With the theme "Come up in the Value Chain! Moving the businesses and organizational capacities of farmers organizations", the National Learning Route was launched on Monday, August 28. This activity is part of the Programme “Farmers’ Organizations for the ACP”, financed by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and implemented by FAO and PROCASUR.

The FO4ACP programme continues its progress well under the partnership of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), PROCASUR and IFAD  

The Regional Learning Route organized by FAO and the Procasur Corporation, in which 13 representatives of farmers' organizations from the Caribbean participated, has shared practices that promote associativity, strengthen business organization and facilitate market access

From August 12 to 19, representatives of 13 farmers' organizations from Jamaica, Belize, Guyana, Grenada and St. Lucia will exchange practices in Colombia to learn management strategies to improve their governance mechanisms and business management

After the Learning Route carried out in May of this year in Guyana within the framework of the Farmers Organizations for African, Caribbean and Pacific project (FO4ACP), FAO, together with the PROCASUR Corporation, continue the development of monitoring and support activities for family farmer...

Between 22 and 24 May, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the Jamaica Network of Rural Women Producers (JNRWP) conducted a series of workshops to train farming networks as part of the FO4ACP Program.

From May 15 to 19, leaders from various farmers' organizations exchanged good practices and innovations that they could apply to their contexts and the needs of their organizations.

FAO and Procasur will facilitate the exchange of experiences among leaders of rural farmers' organizations in Guyana to improve their capacities and entrepreneurial skills.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)  and a non-governmental organization, Specialists in Sustained Youth Development and Research (SSYDR) has commenced a series of capacity building exercises for Farmers' Organizations in Guyana.  under the theme "Improv...

Farmers' organizations gathered at the Grenada Athletics Stadium to learn more about the FO4ACP program, supported by the International Fund for Rural Development (IFAD), the European Union, and the Organization of African, Caribbean, and Pacific States (OASECP)

The initiative focuses on capacity building and training within the Farmers Organizations for African, Caribbean and Pacific (FO4ACP) project framework

From November 21 to 26, rural leaders exchanged good practices and innovations that they can apply to their contexts and to the needs of their organizations

FAO, IFAD, and Procasur will facilitate the exchange of experiences among leaders of rural farmers' associations to improve their business capacities and skills. 

The Learning Route had as its main theme "Moving up the value chain! Moving the business and associative capacities of small rural producers' organizations", and was held from October 25 to 29, 2022 with 14 representatives from 7 Farmers’ Organizations.

At the request of the Ministry of Agriculture, FAO Guyana recently partnered with IICA to host a Gender and Youth Symposium as part of activities that led up to World Food Day 2022. Through this partnership youth and gender activists, agribusiness entrepreneurs, government technicians, and academicians gathered to dialogue about challenges and opportunities in the agriculture sector.

FAO, IFAD and Procasur will facilitate the exchange of experiences between leaders of rural farmers' associations to improve their capacities and business skills. 

The Farmers’ Organizations for Africa, Caribbean, and Pacific in collaboration with FAO Jamaica have so far conducted two policy dialogues forums to further support improvements in the policy framework to strengthen the capacity of Farmers’ Organizations to promote sustainable Family Farming i...