The sustainable and competitive agriculture programme supports integrated, continuous and competitive family farms as well as promising agricultural value chains and farming systems.
Missions
the programme aims at:
-promoting the integral development of farmers (the "being" aspect)
-Supporting farmers to ensure the improvement, diversification and continuity of income and agricultural production on family farms
-Supporting farmers to promote and take control of value chains and farming systems in rural communities
- enhancing the value of the farmers' know-how.
Modalities of intervention
-Support for promising sectors and farming systems
-Promotion of family farms and training of farmers
-Promoting farmer innovations
-Support for endogenous facilitators
-Training of farmers by farmers
-Support for reflection on land management.
Operational approach
-Identify the area of intervention
-Identify a partner community
-Identify partner producers
-Organize a workshop of integral reflection-training of farmers
-Ensure an initial technical support mission to better formulate the actor's project
-Train local facilitators to ensure follow-up
-Carrying out follow-up/accompaniment of producers
-Organise inter-producer exchanges
-Organise open days
-Credit, marketing, monitoring by area
Organise self-evaluation of the activity.
