The Committee for Latin America and the Caribbean is an ideal space to debate the regional problem of the agricultural sector. It promotes conciliation strategies with international organizations and governments to meet the aspirations of the producers. To this end, farmers in this network draw up proposals so that family agriculture preserves its role in regional and international commercial environments. The Committee promotes institutional development and training for leaders of producer organizations in its different member countries. 


Main Aims 

• To be a platform for the exchange of ideas and experiences between producers in the region who are looking to share their concerns and points of view on current agricultural policies.
  
• Act as a spokesman for producers in Latin America and the Caribbean on a regional and international level.
  
• Support  peasant organizations to strengthen their structure.
  
• Act as a source of information and influence for regional institutions using specific recommendations formulated by the farmers themselves.
  
• Stimulate technical cooperation between agricultural organizations and other national and international organizations with links with the sector.

 

Functions 

• Act as a permanent forum between member organizations in the region.

• Raise  its  mutual interests and common worries.

• Draw up actions to develop these interests and establish recommendations on agricultural policy in order to bring pressure on international organizations and governments.

• Develop  understanding on worldwide problems.

• Draw up specific recommendations formulated by farmers themselves, thereby carrying out a lobbying role.

• Forming strategic alliances with research and cooperation institutions, agricultural development agencies, etc.

• Participate in conferences and regional and international workshops where agricultural, economic and social policies affecting agriculture in the region are discussed. This will defend its point of view and  allow the participation of the members in regional and international events,

• Inspire and support the activities of agricultural organizations responding to the needs of agricultural producers in the region.

• Strengthen the capacity of the member agricultural organizations  through institutional development and training its leadership.

• Share information of interest between member agricultural organizations on the Committee.

• Promote policy documents from IFAP and robustly defend its position in meetings with different organizations

 

The agricultural sector is strategic in Latin America and the Caribbean as well as in the rest of the world which makes it necessary to place a lot of emphasis on its constituent parts rather than on material resources

More about knowing than having, more in how to do it rather than with what.