60 rue Saint-Lazare
Paris 75009
France
Tel: +33145260553
Fax: +33148747212
Contact: David King,
Secretary General
www.ifap.org

IFAP is the world farmers organization representing over 500 million farm families grouped in 100 national organizations in 70 countries. It is a global network in which farmers from industrialized and developing countries exchange concerns and set common priorities. IFAP advocates farmers' interests at the international level since 1946 and has General Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.

Member of the International Land Coalition 2003
Member of the Coalition Council 2003-05; 2005-07

Community Empowerment Facility - Member of Project Advisory Committee (PAC)

Advocacy
A Framework to Empower the Smallholder Farmers and the Landless Joint Programmes
Policy Development

Increasing recognition for farming as a profession, and recognition of farmers' contributions to the well-being of mankind.

Supporting the family farm as the basis of a sustainable system of agriculture, for today and in the future.

Promoting farmer-to-farmer cooperation for strengthening farmers' organisations to participate in self-help development.

Pressing for farm policies to achieve food security, poverty eradication and the opportunity to earn a fair and reasonable income from farming.

Promoting the best farming practices resulting from scientific and technological progress, in order to achieve high levels of food safety and food quality throughout the food chain, and conservation of the natural resource base.

Maintaining and enhancing the vitality of rural Communities.

Strengthening the situation of the farmer faced with substantial industry concentration in the food chain.

Agricultural Workers
Farmers
Fishers
Resettled people

Community Capacity
Network Building
Institutional Development
Lobbying and Advocacy
Policy Research