COCOCH is a network of 10 farmers' federations established in 1988. With its base group of more than 3,000 farmers' groups and co-operatives, rural enterprises, rural women's organizations, small agricultural producers comprising some 300,000 direct producers, COCOCH provides the structure that brings together the organizations of farmers and small producers of Honduras.
Mission:
Strengthen the unity of Honduran peasantry, as well as the defence and claiming of its rights and interests, while contributing to the overall development of the country and to the reduction of its poverty.
Vision:
We wish the existence of united and strong peasantry, with better organizational structures, with capacity to propose and advocate for pro-poor access to productive assets and basic services, in a way that helps ameliorate the living conditions of indigenous farmers and peasants and contributes to the well-being of the overall society of Honduras. A vital instrument to that is the need for a comprehensive agrarian reform.
Objectives:
Elaborate policy lines that keep the organization’s proposals coherent and representative so to promote unity of the grass-roots movement
Keep communications fluid among OCOCH members and with other sister organizations
Demand inclusive participation of the peasant movement into all instances that are related to the agrarian reform process.
Promote a comprehensive agro-forest agrarian reform which responds to the need to transform the tenure structure of the country
Struggle for the free of charge adjudication of land for its beneficiaries
Struggle against all those laws and regulations that pull down the value and the spirit of the agrarian reform
Establish a system that in the longer term will help make peasant movement financially independent with an increase of its social patrimony.
Activities/Main areas of work:
COCOCH organizes its work around 5 main programme areas, namely:
Organizational and institutional strengthening of COCOH
Technical-administrative strengthening Advocacy, policy-formulation and negotiations programme
Access to land and forested land programme
Leadership and capacity building
Coverage:
Honduras
Beneficiaries:
andless and almost landless farmers and peasant & indigenous communities
Membership/Affiliations
International networks:
Coordinadora Latinoamérica Organizaciones Campesinas
Vía Campesina Centroamericana
Iniciativa de Comercio integración y Desarrollo (CID)
FIAN Internacional
Foro de Organizaciones Campesinas de Centroamérica
Coordinadora Latinoamericana de Organizaciones del Campo (CLOC)
Some national newtorks to which COCOCH is affiliated are:
Foro Campesino
Red Comercializadora Alternativa (Red Comal)
Centro de Derechos de la Mujer (CDM)
Alianza Hondureña Agroforestal
