Individual farmers often receive low prices for their harvest, and pineapple producers in Bangladesh are no exception. To help them, CDAIS facilitated a series of meetings and coaching.
Individual farmers often receive low prices for their harvest, and pineapple producers in Bangladesh are no exception. To help them, CDAIS facilitated a series of meetings and coaching.
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“El proyecto CDAIS brinda una metodología innovadora porque crea capacidades en nosotros como seres humanos”, explica Carlos Valladares de la Red Hortícola de Intibucá. “Esto ha ayudado a que entendamos mejor nuestra situación y nos apropiemos de ella.
“The CDAIS project brings an innovative methodology because it creates capacities in us as human beings” explains Carlos Valladares of the Intibucá Farmers Network.
“Primero necesitamos conocernos para saber quiénes somos, qué es lo que ofrecemos y cómo ofrecerlo” dice Denis Cortez productor de café. Somos más conscientes del impacto de lo que hacemos, aplicamos en nuestras fincas lo que aprendemos como nuevos métodos de procesamiento p
“We first needed to know who we are, what we offer, and how to offer it,” says coffee farmer Denis Cortez. “We in the partnership organized ourselves, and now all get involved in working for the common good.
“CDAIS no nos da dinero, pero abre espacios para tener contactos importantes para el desarrollo de los productores de las asociaciones y del rubro”, dice Segovia que también se propone gestionar proyectos para mujeres, un museo de chocolate, una tienda de productos de cacao y cursos de cataci
“CDAIS does not give us money, but it opens spaces for cacao producers, associations and industry to work together” says Sergio Segovia, president of the ASOPROCCAN association.
“Es importante el empoderamiento de la organización, conocer nuestro potencial para acceder a financiamientos y al mercado y lograr que el cultivo de frijol sea productivo.” expresa Moisés Acosta, vicepresidente de la Red de Productores Artesanales de Semilla de Honduras (Red Pash).
“The empowerment of our organization was important, to realise our potential to access to finance, markets and to make bean cultivation more productive” expresses Moises Acosta, vice-president of the Honduran Seed Producers Network, “and the bean value chain is now being strengthened and made
“I have seen my income grow since I started farming frogs and fish” says Bounlium Planethavong, “but other farmers need support to adopt the techniques I use.” The CDAIS project identified this innovation that increases and diversifies household income and nutrition by promoting the productio
Smallholder farmers the world over like to raise cattle if they can and those in Lao PDR are no exception. “Cattle are our savings bank,” says Mr Phokham Keomanivong, a member of the Ban Keun cattle production group.