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  • Contact: Mr Pedro Jose Escriche
  • Address: Camí del Ports 46470, Catarroja, Valencia, Spain
  • Phone: +34 963 52 18 78
  • Email: info@cerai.org
  • Web: cerai.org
  • Members:
    CERAI

CERAI

CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS RURALES Y AGRICULTURA INTERNACIONAL

2015

Member since

Working towards these commitments

Respect, protect and strengthen the land rights of women and men living in poverty, ensuring that no one is deprived of the use and control of the land on which their well-being and human dignity depend, including through eviction, expulsion or exclusion, and with compulsory changes to tenure undertaken only in line with international law and standards on human rights.
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Secure Tenure Rights

Ensure equitable land distribution and public investment that supports small-scale farming systems, including through redistributive agrarian reforms that counter excessive land concentration, provide for secure and equitable use and control of land, and allocate appropriate land to landless rural producers and urban residents, whilst supporting smallholders as investors and producers, such as through cooperative and partnership business models.
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Strong Small-Scale Farming Systems

Enable the role of local land users in territorial and ecosystem management, recognizing that sustainable development and the stewardship of ecosystems are best achieved through participatory decision-making and management at the territorial-level, empowering local land users and their communities with the authority, means and incentives to carry out this responsibility.
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Locally-managed ecosystems

Ensure transparency and accountability, through unhindered and timely public access to all information that may contribute to informed public debate and decision-making on land issues at all stages, and through decentralization to the lowest effective level, to facilitate participation, accountability and the identification of locally appropriate solutions
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Transparent and accessible information

Mission

CERAI is a rural development NGO which works to promote sustainable and environmentally-friendly transformation of rural societies, helping them to become self-sufficient in terms of their dietary needs. Communities retain their cultural identity and the integrity of their resources, by means of international cooperation and rural development, as well as by promoting gender equality. CERAI promotes food sovereignty, agroecology, sustainable rural development and the the recognition of the fundamental role that rural women play in the advancement of society.

Objectives

CERAI aims for specialized training of farmers, as well of future professionals of the rural and agricultural sector working in international cooperation, agroecology, sustainable rural development, and traditional knowledge. The promotion and raising of awareness on food sovereignty issues occur amongst both developed and underdeveloped societies, amongst rural and urban populations. 

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  • Contact: Mr Pedro Jose Escriche
  • Address: Camí del Ports 46470, Catarroja, Valencia, Spain
  • Phone: +34 963 52 18 78
  • Email: info@cerai.org
  • Web: cerai.org
  • Members:
    CERAI