The French Committee for International Solidarity (CFSI) has announced a Call for Projects
"Promotion of Family Farming in West Africa" 2021.
In order to support them, the Fondation de France and the French
Committee for International Solidarity (CFSI) joined forces in 2009 to launch a
program to strengthen family farming in sub-Saharan Africa, refocused since
2010 on South Africa.
This program is benefi ting from a contribution
from the Fondation JM.Bruneau (under the auspices of the Fondation de France)
and the Agence française de développement (AFD, French Development Agency). The
Réseau des organisations paysannes et de producteurs d’Afrique de l’Ouest
(Roppa) is a member of the monitoring and orientation committee. The Jafowa
program takes part to the capitalization side of the program.
Objectives
The general objective is to boost local
initiatives to increase access to food through viable and sustainable family
agriculture in West Africa, share their knowledge and experience on a wider
scale and contribute to the documentation on the sustainability of this
agricultural model. This documentation should help challenge decisionmakers to
take these issues into account in public policies.
In a context of competition with imports, this
amounts to supporting “local consumption”, understood as “the local and
national consumption of the products of West African family farming”.
The specific objectives are:
- through concrete, innovative
action, to improve and secure the production, processing, preservation and
marketing of farm produce and to ensure that poor urban and rural
consumers have access to it;
- to share among local, national
and international actors the knowledge acquired from concrete action under
this program, and to draw comprehensive lessons;
- to produce documents and sets
of arguments useful to the actors monitoring family farming issues and
addressing related political issues.
Themes
The program supports
projects which take into account both the following themes:
- connecting family farming to
urban and rural markets/ promoting the consumption of local products: how
can local family farming supply domestic markets and feed the cities –big
or medium ones– and rural settlements? How can it compete with imported
products and regain a share of urban and rural markets? How to boost the
consumption of local products?
- developing methods of
sustainable agriculture/ sustainable food systems: is it possible to meet
the challenge “Feeding the towns, now and in 2050, through family farming”
by developing sustainable agriculture? How can family farming adapt to
climate change?
Priority Issues
The 2021 call for
projects exclusively targets specific innovations that answer one or more of
these 3 questions:
- How can the marketing of local
products from family farming be remunerative for peasants, peasants and
other sector actors, beyond niche markets and allow the generalization of
food consumption? produced and processed in the country or sub-region
(that is to say by a large number of consumers from the middle and poor
categories, or even very poor)?
- How can local products from
peasant family agriculture have lasting access to institutional markets?
- How to make West African
consumers and their organizations full players in the massive consumption
of healthy and nutritious local products?
Funding Information
Two kinds of initiatives
will be supported:
- short-term projects (one-year
duration), with a granted amount of 10,000€ to 15,000€;
- multi-year projects (3 years
maximum), with a maximum amount of 50,000€ for the whole time period (3
years) and paid in annual tranches in light of the progress of the
project.
Eligibility Criteria
To non-profit legal
entities:
- West African farmers'
organizations (POs);
- support NGOs active in West
Africa or Europe insofar as they act with local partners;
- to research and / or training
organizations.
A local authority cannot
be the bearer of the project but can be a main partner.
Important: the call for projects is reserved for proposals for actions
in formalized partnership between a West African organization and a European
organization. The supporting organization can be West African or European.
Post Date - 20-Nov-2020