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Strengthening Farmer Organizations in the OIC Member Countries
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2. Does the government have a body with the specific mandate to work with farmer
organizations?
Group Country Y/N Source Comments
African Countries (cont’d)
Guinea 
The National Agency Promoting Rural & Agricultural
Consulting (ANPROCA) is the government organization
responsible for working with and strengthening FOs in Guinea.
Sierra Leone
N/A
N/A Most publications and websites that profile Sierra Leone's
agricultural sector do not reference institutional
arrangements apart from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry
and Food Security. The Ministry does not seem to have a
website either.
Mozambique

United States Agency
for International
Development , Food
and Agriculture
Organization
The Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Planning and
Development have various programmes designed to support
FOs in Mozambique. They have, over time, been
institutionalized with the support of international
development agencies such as USAID, IFAD. These
programmes include: FSLPD (Family Sector Livestock
Development Programme); ASP (Agricultural Support
Programme); NADP (Niassa Agricultural Development
Project); PAMA (Agricultural Markets Support Programme);
RFSP (Rural Finance Support Programme) and
PROMER(Rural Markets Promotion Programme). In addition,
there is also an Institute for Development of Small-Scale
Fisheries.
Niger 
This is the National Network of Chambers of Agriculture in
Niger (RECA).
Nigeria 
Federal Ministry of
Agriculture and Rural
Development
Department of Cooperatives under the Federal Ministry of
Agriculture and Rural Development
Togo 
La "Direction des Filieres Vegetales" (DFV) is the government
body that was created for this purpose.
Uganda 
The National Agricultural Advisory Services Organization
Arab Countries
Algeria 
Les Organisations Professionnelles Agricoles (The Professional
Organizations of Agriculture, or OPA) consists of 3 sub-bodies:
Agriculture Chambers; Associations; and Cooperatives. This
body was created in 1988 under IMF pressure to liberalize the
Algerian economy.
Comoros 
CEFADER (Centre d'Appui Federal au Developpement Rural) is
a government umbrella for all agricultural initiatives