ADAD (Association for Agricultural Development for the Dibra district)

Rruga "Bajram Curri" / 1 Maji - Shkalla 3, Ap. 26 - Tirana - Albania
Phone +355 (68) 24 00 112
Email : adadomih@albamail.com

Created in 1996 with the assistance of FERT to promote and support the producers’ organisation in a mid-level mountain zone in northeastern Albania. The actions led by ADAD, with the support of FERT and the Alpes de Haute Provence Chamber of Agriculture, aim to cast aside the major constraints faced by agricultural development by improving access to fertilising inputs and to means of production, by creating references to techniques of production and by improving commercialisation and transformation of produce.

MADA (Mountain Areas Development Agency)

Str “Dervish Hima” Towers behind St “Qemal Stafa”
Tower I, flat III – Tirana – Albanie
T +355 4 26 75 42
F +355 4 26 75 44
Email : mada@albnet.net

The global objective of MADA agency is to enhance the standard of living for mountainous areas populations by increasing and improving agricultural production and by more strongly involving local actors.

CHAMBER OF AGRICULTURE OF THE BLIDA DISTRICT

103 avenue Ben-boulaid - BP 3202 - Blida - Algeria
Phone + 213 25 41 80 32
Fax + 213 25 40 24 11
Email : caw.blida@caramail.com

President: Tahar Medjadji

Blida 's Wilaya Chamber of Agriculture is a public establishment in charge of representing the interests of the agricultural profession; it constitutes a favored partner for administrative and technical authorities in all fields concerning agricultural development.

ITGC
Website
1, rue Hassen Badi - BP 16 El-Harrach - Alger - Algeria
Phone + 213 021 52 44 31
Fax + 213 021 52 35 29
Email : itgc@entreprises-dz.com

The ITGC - Technical Institute for Large Scale Cultivation - is an Algerian administrative public organism under the Ministry of Agriculture supervision. Created in 1974 on the basis of the "Cereals" project, it comprises today nine experimentation sites spread all over Algeria.

CIHEAM
Website

General Secretariat
11 rue Newton - 75116 Paris - France
Phone + 33 (0) 153 23 91 00
Fax + 33 (0) 153 23 91 00
Email : secretariat@ciheam.org

CIHEAM - International Centre of Mediterranean High Studies in Agronomy - is a cooperation tool between mediterranean countries, in the fields of post-graduate education and promotion of research in matters of cooperation. CIHEAM is a centre of excellence that works in partnership with specialised national institutions in member countries. It is an intergovernmental organism with regional vocation whose objective is to promote cooperation by contributing to agricultural development in the region through training and research.

CORE
Website

av. Pobeditely, 23, b.1, 7th floor, room 724/725
220004 Minsk, Belarus
Phone +375 172 27 05 72
Fax +375 172 27 77 87
Email : core@core-chernobyl.org

Programme CORE ("COoperation for REhabilitation") is aimed, in the long run, at rehabilitating living conditions in areas contaminated after the Chernobyl nuclear plant accident, i.e. initially the districts of Bragin, Chechersk, Slavgorod and Stolin, with possible extension to other contaminated areas.

CORE puts forward a mode of coordination that combines governmental and nongovernmental efforts at national scale so as to carry out interventions adapted to the needs of concerned populations and based on local initiatives.

It is an integrated development programme that allows for constructive dialogue and exchange of experience and that facilitates the implementation of operational actions related to four major axes: health and surveillance, economical and social development of contaminated rural areas, education and cultural heritage, and radiological quality control.

FERT is more specifically involved in the second axis through the CORE-Agri Programme whose main objective is to monitor the inhabitants of contaminated rural areas to help them put in place processes of rehabilitation for their lands and processes of self-development so as to improve their living conditions with lasting effect.

CORE-Agri teams up several national partners (BRISSA, BRIAE, the Chernobyl Committee, Gomel Agency, BelarusBank) together with international ones (FERT, ISP/INAPG, CNIEL, Institut de l'Elevage, FNPLait, UNDP, OCHA, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, French Embassy in Bielorus, the Committee of European partners).

BRISSA

Av. Masherova, 23, building 1, 7th floor, room 725
220004 Minsk, Belarus
Phone +375 172 77 07 51
Fax +375 172 77 44 80
Email : brissa@mail.belpak.by

Director : Iossif BOGDEVITCH

BRISSA (Belarus Research Institute for Soil Science and Agrochemistry) was created in Minsk in 1931. The BRISSA Institute conducts research on the improvement of soil fertility, the development of ecological practices and the reduction of radionuclide transfers between plants and soil.

Collaboration between FERT and the BRISSA institute has started in 2000 within the framework of the ETHOS programme whose goal was to show that populations living in areas contaminated by the Chernobyl accident were capable of mobilising themselves to take care of the radiological quality of their lands.

Within this framework FERT and BRISSA have put in place a pilot operation of potato production in charge of several groups of farmers from four villages of the Stolin district. Strengthened by this operation's positive results, both organisations proceeded with the same approach aiming not only at circulating techniques contributing to improve the quality and yield of agricultural productions in contaminated areas, at family-size exploitation scale, but also at monitoring agricultural leaders and projects that, with their value stressed amongst small organisations (of the associative, membered or cooperative types), will contribute to the rural development of the area.

INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT

Kazintsa str., B. 90, room 40 – 220108 Minsk – Belarus
Phone/Fax +375 172 98 98 97
Email : tarasiuk@mail.belpak.by

The foundation is non-profit organisation established by FERT, Belarusian and French citizens in January 2008. Its actions is based on the partnership between many actors: private and state local, regional, national and international. The mission of the foundation is based on CORE-Agri approach developed and adapted in 2004-2007.
The foundation supports actions focused on the development of agricultural activities:
- rural capacity building to improve living conditions of the rural population through support of individual initiatives and learning of new skills;
- enhancement of family incomes and quality of foodstuffs through adoption of new technologies and production systems;
- support and follow-up work, based on the individual initiatives, of the group capacity-building processes by structuring the basic agricultural production problems (from the supply to marketing), in order to develop efficient activities and organisation that would promote sustainable development of the territories;
- development, with all the private and public concerned actors, of the quality management procedures to control the living conditions in the area.

AGRIFERT

Estrada Kuwahara, lote 17 - Mogi das Cruzes - Santa Isabel - SP
Phone/Fax (0055) 11 4724 9772
E-mail: agrifert@terra.com.br
Postal adress: Caixa Postal 109 - 07500-970 - Santa Isabel - SP

AGRIFERT (Associação para Gestão de Projetos de Fortalecimento das Economias Rurais e Desenvolvimento Territorial) was created in 2005 to pursue in partnership with FERT the actions engaged in the State of Minas Géraïs to develop the potato industry, raw milk cheese industry and fruit and vegetable industry.

AGRIFERT’s main objective is to extend its actions to other agricultural industries and other geographical areas, while varying its partnerships.

UNILEITE

Rua Alagoas, sala 1324, Capanema – Parana - Brazil
Phone/Fax (46) 3552 3372
E-mail: unileite@wln.com.br

UNILEITE SUDOESTE is an association of milk producers of the Southeast of the State of Parana.
UNILEITE’s objective is to develop small-scale farming in dairy sector by:
- developing an individual technical assistance and driving groups of producers;
- promoting a critical analysis of farms through analysis of technical and economical results of each breeder;
- enhancing the value of several years experience results and spreading them to other producers;
- defending a sustainable agriculture;
- giving responsabilities to producers at different levels;
- promoting a mind of cooperation and solidarity.

LOCAL UNION OF NIEBE « SUGRINSOZAMA » GROWERS OF PISSILA (UDPNP)

Postal Adress :
s/c DPA/HRH Sanmatenga, BP 113 Kaya, Burkina Faso
Phone (Provincial Direction for Agriculture) : + 226 40 45 34 40
Phone (Chairman of the Union) : + 226 76 49 71 04

Chairman : Mr Bamogo Sambo

The UDPNP counts about one thousand members organised in 45 groups spread all over the area of Pissila, in the Sanmatenga province, about 140 km northeast from Ouagadougou.

These members are all niebe growers. The niebe is a bean well adapted to the new local agro-climatic conditions (shortening of the only rain season, soil impoverishment) and to population food needs.

The Union main functions are:
- driving the groups about niebe production, through a pilot producers network
- organising the farming inputs supply
- commercialising part of niebe grown by members
- engaging in the building process of niebe industry at the country scale.

EXPERTISE FOR SAHEL DEVELOPMENT (EDS)

BP 5385 Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Phone (Kaya agency) : +226 40 45 03 87
E-mail : eds@fasonet.bf

Contact at Kaya agency: Mr Roger KABORE

EDS is a Burkinabe engineering office, mainly involved in local development actions. His Kaya agency is focused on support to niebe and cereals production, in close partnership with the Union of niebe growers of Pissila. EDS is the main local technical partner of FERT in Burkina Faso.

CEFADES

Avenue Lubero n°4 - Commune Kimenia - BP29 Butembo - Nord Kivu - République Démocratique du Congo
Phone + 243 813 052 753
Fax + 871 762 837 860
Email : cefadesucg@yahoo.fr

President: Apollinaire MUHOLONGU MALU MALU
(Dean of the Catholic University of Graben)

CEFADES - Training and Animation Centre for Solidary Development - is an association created in 1995 by the Catholic Uiversity of Graben with the support of FERT. CEFADES' main objective is to allow the University to play a hands-on role in the local environment so as to favour its integration. It acts as an interface between university decision-making bodies and the farmers and other players, thus constituting a bridge between theoretical knowledge and field experience.

CEFADES has organised training courses for students since 1995 to allow them to deepen their knowledge of the rural surroundings and to establish contacts with those concerned.

Since 2000, and in partnership with FERT, CEFADES has been implementing a programme for rural development for the territories of Beni and Lubero in Northern Kivu. This programme aims at conducting the structuration of the rural world and at supporting grassroots initiatives to respond to crucial problems such as seed supply, agricultural produces storage, etc...

GAB

bd Chedid Center
190 - Zahlen - Lebanon
Phone + 961 3 320 113
Fax + 961 8 808 236

President: Izhaya El Zouky

GAB - Grouping of the Bekaa Farmers - is a services cooperative that arose from the grassroots mobilisation of groups of producer of large-scale cultivations and greens of the Bekaa plain. It was created in 2002 following the actions led by FERT in Lebanon since 1997.

FIFATA

BP206 Tsivatrinikamo -110 Antsirabe - Madagascar
Phone + 00 261 20 44 496 23
Fax + 00 261 20 44 496 24
Email : fi.fa.ta@moov.mg

President: Mamy Rajohanesa

FIFATA - Fikambanana Fampivoarana ny Tantsaha or Association for the Progress of Farmers - is an association created in September 1989 now grouping five regional federations of Farmers Organisations (VFTV-FIFATAM-VOMBO-FFTS-VFTM) as well as physical persons, amounting to about 70 000 members - farmers or stock breeders for the most part.

Created at the initiative of some 500 farmers from the regions of Vakinankaratra and Amoron'i Mania, FIFATA was built around the necessity of developing lasting and common services for the farming population:
- technical training for the farmers,
- economical organisation to better apprise production,
- local and regional information and communication,
- support for land security,
- facilitation of the access to financing,
- defence of the interests of farmers and professional representation to players in rural development as a whole.

FORMAGRI

Lot 05 E 255 - Villa Zanamaro Fenomanana - Ampatana - 110 Antsirabe - Madagascar
Phone + 00 261 20 44 491 95
Fax + 00 261 20 44 491 94
Email : formagri@moov.mg

FORMAGRI - Foibe Ifampiofanan'ny Tantsaha - or Farmers Training Institution - is an association that was created in September 2001 at the term of a process started in 1993 at FERT's initiative. FORMAGRI's missions are to foster the emergence of farming overseers, male and female, to promote their development and to allow them to become true and active partners in the same regard as all other players in Madagascar's socio-economical development. FORMAGRI's main activities consist in :
- animating a network of trained workers, of training centers and NGOs working for the rural world and constituting a think tank as well as an experience exchange hub for the professionalisation of farming.
- training and educating rural overseers, farmers, support technicians and trainers, while taking into account the gender and development dimension
- providing services through trainings, organizational and methodological support and technical counsel, and setting up socioeconomical and cultural events,
- acting as an interface with authorities, technical and financial partners, financial institutions and the private sector, in the field of agricultural and rural training.

CEFFEL
Center for Experimentation an Education in Fruit and Vegetable growing

Andranobe
Fokontany Ambohitsokina
110 Antsirabe - Madagascar
Email : fert.fel@moov.mg

The CEFFEL has been created in 2004 from FERT and FIFATA initiative.

KHEMISSET CHAOUÏA DEVELOPMENT COOPERATIVE

Douar Lahouarta Ouled Jmil - Cne Khemisset Chaouïa -
Province de Settat - Morocco
Phone + 212 61 40 19 52

President: MAGHFOUR Abdeljabbar

The KHEMISSET CHAOUIA Development Cooperative was created in 2000 following field work conducted by FERT since 1997 and with the support of the National Institute for Agronomical Research (INRA) of Settat.

The vocation of the «KhemCha» Cooperative is to work in the service of all the farmers in the land and to induce positive upshots for the rural population in the area as a whole.

While it was initially designed to be versatile, under the impulse of its leaders the cooperative focused on the dairy line, giving priority to two essential aspects: technical support for production and the search for market opportunities.

The Joint Morocco Programme (Programme Concerté Maroc - PCM) allowed for strong impulse for the cooperative's activities and created a solid network of partners around it: the Research Centre on Arid-zone Agriculture (the INRA in Settat), the Provincial Direction of Agriculture (DPA), FERT and the Manosque Farming Cooperative.

UNCAM

48 rue d'Alger - BP 13501 Casablanca - Morocco
Phone + 212 22 20 02 48
Fax + 212 22 48 28 92

President: Zaghi Oul Essaydi Moulay

UNCAM - National Union of Moroccan Farming Cooperatives - groups together 13 Moroccan Farming Cooperatives (CAM).

It plays a role in the harvesting, storage and commercialisation of national or imported cereal.

The Union counts with a 150 000 ton storage capacity and achieves an average turnover of 1 billion dirhams.

CAM of Meknes

Rue Ahmed Amine – BP 206 – Meknes, Morocco
Phone +212 55 52 22 24
Fax +212 55 52 10 43

Since 1999 an important project involving Morrocan cereals cooperatives (CAM) and their Union (UNCAM) lead FERT and the CAM of Meknes to develop many field actions. The objective of the running project « Cooperatives and promotion of quality wheat in Morocco » is to improve production and quality of wheat grown by producers groups. Local outlets, like the new mill of the CAM of Meknes, will allow farmers to sell the wheat at the best price.

MVIWATA

PO Box 3220 - Morogoro - Tanzania
Phone + 255 (0) 23 261 41 84
Email : mviwata@africaonline.co.tz

President: Mrs DAIMA
Director: Mr S.RUVUGA

MVIWATA - Mtandao wa Vikundi vya Wakulima Tanzania - or National Network of Farmers Groups in Tanzania - is an association created in 1993 at the initiative of farmers from the regions of Morogoro, Iringa, Tanga, Mbeya and Dodoma and with the support of the Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) in Morogoro. MVIWATA's main objectives are to allow for representation of the interests of farmers and the implementation of services for an improvement of their working environment and their income.

Actions developed by MIWATA are :
- communication and exchange of experience between the network's affiliated farmers and other countries' farmers,
- support for the structuring of farmer groups,
- training and information,
- monitoring of initiatives in the field of agricultural production,
- commercialisation of produces and access to financing for farming activity.

USAWA KILIMANJARO LIMITED

Postal address:
P.O. Box 1812, Moshi, Tanzania
Phone +255 27 275 0980
E-mail : usawa.kilimanjaro@yahoo.com

President : Mr MLAU

USAWA is a financial institution created in 2007 by FERT and ten saving and credit (SACCOS) in the Kilimanjaro region, at the North of Tanzania.

USAWA has been created to fulfil the need of rural SACCOS in technical support, in supervision and refinancing. All USAWA member SACCOS are in rural areas, where population have usually no access to financial services suitable to their activities, mostly farming. These SACCOS contribute to USAWA functioning expenses and benefits back services such as:
- Suport to development of SACCOS: training programs, help for accounting, procedures building, increase of members, etc.
- Reinforcement of control: support to supervision committees, respect of procedures of credit granting, etc.
- Refinancing : direct loans to SACCOS to complete their capacity to autofinance members credits.

APAD
Association for Sustainable Agriculture

C5 la lune du lac – 1053 Les Jardins du Lac, Tunisie
Phone +216 71 19 17 64
Fax +216 71 19 17 64
E-mail : agriculturedurable@gmail.com

This very new association of Tunisian producers is a new FERT interlocutor to promote actions in Conservation agriculture. One board member and the APAD technician will take part to a training program about conservation agriculture at the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Saragossa, in the context of the Mediterranean network driven by FERT. Another project is the study using INDIGO method about the diagnosis of direct sowing practices of farmers from the Mateur area.

COCEBLE

6 av Habib Thameur - 1000 Tunis - Tunisia
Phone + 71 348 799
Fax + 71 345 348
Email : coceble@gnet.tn

The COCEBLE - Central Wheat Cooperative - was created in 1970 from the Wheat Cooperative Society (SOCOBLE) and the Tunisian Farmers' Cooperative Society (SCAT). Its purpose is to improve the productivity and quality of wheat through the enhancement of techniques, the supplying of its members (+-6000 affiliates) for their activity's needs, commercialisation of products as well as, possibly, product preservation, transformation, storage and transport.

Relationships with COCEBLE started from 2000, with the idea to build a program to support the cooperative standard improvement. The launch of such a program still depends on national-scale decisions concerning cereals industry organisation.

COSEM
Central Cooperative for Seeds

72 avenue de Carthage – 1000 Tunis, Tunisie
Phone +216 71 24 32 81
Fax +216 71 35 22 00
E-mail : COSEM@planet.tn

Since 1998 and during 4 years along with the project « Seeds and Performance », FERT supported the standard increase of this company concerning management, technical support to breeders and internal organisation. This collaboration with the COSEM cooperative will go on in the context of progressive opening of seed industry in Tunisia, especially through the future relationships with technical and commercial partners in France.

CTC

BP120 - 8170 Bou Salem - Tunisia
Phone + 78 63 80 34
Fax + 78 60 29 66

President: Kamel Bechedli

CTC - Centre Technique des Céréales - has missions of Applied Research and Development, especially in service of Tunisia's grain producers.

FERT co-organised many actions with CTC and ESAK (Kef High School for Agriculture), especially in the context of the Mediterranean network RCM. Since a few years, FERT has been mostly involved in common themes like direct sowing and conservation agriculture.