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the Land sustainably

Technical and Institutional Partners

In France and Europe

Since its activities often require a wide range of different skills, AVSF has always worked in conjunction with many professional partners from the associative, institutional, research and training, and business worlds. These partnerships have evolved from AVSF's solid and long-standing relationships in various institutional and professional environments in France and in Europe. They attest to AVSF’s desire to pool and optimize resources and skills in addressing the big challenges that it faces. Finally, these partnerships are necessary in order to ensure that AVSF’s activities have a significant impact and bring about big changes.

European and French Associations

  • ACRA (Cooperation Association for Rural Development in Asia and South America) – Italy
  • AFDI (Agriculteurs français et développement international)
  • AGTER (Association to Contribute to Improve the Governance of Land, Water and Natural Resources)
  • WMPA (World Mountain People Association) – France and International
  • Caritas – Secours Catholique – France
  • CCFD (Comité Catholique contre la Faim et pour le Développement)
  • CCL (Comité de Coopération Laos)
  • CISV (Comunità Impegno Servizio Volontariato)
  • CONCERN (Ireland)
  • CONCORD (NGO Confederation for Relief and Development) – International (Belgium)
  • Conservation Company – Netherlands
  • Equi’Sol
  • ETC TERRA
  • FLO – Fair Trade labeling Organization Ev – International (Bonn – Germany)
  • GERES – Groupe Energies Renouvelables, Environnement et Solidarités
  • GoodPlanet / Action Carbone
  • GRET (Groupe de Recherche et d’Échanges Technologiques)
  • GVC – Italy
  • ICCO (Interchurch Organization for Development Cooperation) – Netherlands
  • Inter-réseaux Développement Rural
  • IRAM (Institut de Recherches et d’Applications des Méthodes de Développement)
  • Max Havelaar
  • Médecins du Monde – Belgium
  • Oxfam France
  • Pays de Savoie Solidaires
  • PROTOS (Projektgroep voor Technische Ontwikkelingssamenwerking) – Belgium
  • Plateforme Française du Commerce Équitable
  • SIVTRO - Italy
  • Solidaridad – Netherlands
  • Vétérinaires sans Frontières – Belgium
  • Veterinarians without Borders – Czech Republic
  • VSF Europa (includes AVSF, DIO, SIVTRO, Tierärtze ohne Grenzen, Vétérinaires sans Frontières Belgium, Vétérinaires sans Frontières Switzerland, Veterinarios sin Fronteras Spain, VSF Austria, and VSF Portugal)

Professional Organizations and Associations, Trade Unions

  • ARDEAR Rhône-Alpes
  • CIE Terrena
  • Conseil Supérieur de l’Ordre National des Vétérinaires
  • Fédération des Syndicats Vétérinaires de France
  • Fédération Régionale des Syndicats Caprins de Charente-Poitou (Fresyca) – Vendée
  • Regional GTVs (Normandy, Brittany)
  • Passerelles et Compétences
  • Planète Urgence – Congés Solidaires
  • Via Campesina – International
  • RAD (Réseau Agriculture Durable)
  • Société Nationale des Groupements Techniques Vétérinaires (SNGTV)
  • UniAgro

Universities and Training Centers

  • Agrocampus Ouest (formerly ENSAR)
  • Agro-Paris-Tech (formerly Institut National Agronomique de Paris Grignon)
  • AGROSUP Dijon
  • Bioforce
  • CIEDEL (Centre International d’Études et de Développement Local)
  • ENV (national veterinary schools in Lyon, Nantes, Maison-Alfort, Toulouse)
  • IEDES (Institut d’Étude du Développement Économique et Social) – Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University
  • ISARA-Lyon (agricultural engineering program)
  • ISTOM (School of International Agro-Development)
  • ONIRIS (Nantes-Atlantic National College of Veterinary Medicine, Food Science, and Engineering)
  • SupAgro Montpellier
  • VetAgro Sup Clermont Ferrand

Research Centers

  • CIRAD (Center for Agricultural Research for Development)
  • INRA-MONA (National Institute for Agricultural Research – “globalization and agriculture” unit)
  • IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement)

French Networks and Groups of Associations

  • CADR (Collectif des Associations de Développement en Rhône-Alpes)
  • Water Coalition
  • CFSI (Comité Français pour la Solidarité Internationale)
  • CLONG-Volontariat (Comité de Liaison des ONG de Volontariat)
  • Collectif Haïti de France
  • Coordination Sud (national coordination of French NGOs working in the field of international solidarity)
  • Coordination Sud’s “Agriculture and Food” Commission (C2A)
  • Coordination Sud’s “Climate and Development” Commission
  • ERAC (Espace Rhône-Alpes Coopération)
  • F3E (Fonds pour la Promotion des Études Préalables, Études Transversales et Évaluations)
  • GI (Groupe Initiatives)
  • GTD (desertification technical group)
  • RESACOOP (Réseau d’Appui à la Coopération en Rhône-Alpes)

Companies and Foundations

  • Ecocert
  • Expert’Ial
  • FARM (Foundation for World Agriculture and Rurality)
  • Rabobank Foundation – Netherlands
  • Ethiquable Cooperative (fair trade)

Government and Professional Bodies

  • APCA (Assemblée Permanente des Chambres d’Agriculture)
  • CNCD (National Commission for Decentralized Cooperation)
  • FVI (France Vétérinaire International)
  • MAEE (Ministry of Foreign and European Affaires)
  • MAAPAR (Ministry for Agriculture, Fisheries, and Rural Affaires)
  • ONF-I (Office National des Forêts – International)

Regional Authorities and Local Cooperation Bodies

  • Agence de l'Eau Seine-Normandie
  • Department of Val-de-Marne
  • Department of Hauts-de-Seine
  • Department of Savoie (Pays de Savoie Solidaires)
  • Department of Hautes-Pyrénées
  • Rhône Department
  • Livradois Forez Natural Park
  • Rhône-Alpes Region
  • Brittany
  • Poitou-Charentes Region
  • Cities of Vaulx-en-Velin and Chambery

Other International Technical Partners

  • World Mountain People Association (WMPA)
  • Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
  • International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
  • World Organization for Animal Health (OIE)
  • World Food Program (WFP)

In our cooperation countries

AVSF focuses on developing the know-how of local actors (particularly smallholder communities) and boosting their capacities and skills. This approach helps ensure the impact and longevity of AVSF’s activities. AVSF’s diverse partnerships with smallholder organizations, national NGOs, training centers, and public services are aimed particularly at boosting technical skills, developing public policy proposals, and providing organizational support, project management, administrative and financial management, and institutional development. Our partnerships with local authorities and national public authorities aim to integrate our cooperative efforts into local and national policy and help ensure that these policies improve over time.

Central America and the Caribbean

In Central America, South America, and Haïti, partnerships have been entered into with: older national NGOs that often have strong technical skills, indigenous organizations (from Andean and Central American countries) that are committed to defending the rights of the local agrarian populations and developing their lands, producer cooperatives and associations involved in local food production and export sectors and their national trade unions, and finally, smallholder unions and social movements. AVSF is also now working more and more often with rural municipalities and other groups, as well as with public services and ministries that are interested in AVSF’s expertise.

HAITI

  • ADICOD - Association de développement de la commune de Dessalines
  • ANATRAF - Association nationale des producteurs et transformateurs de fruits
  • ASPVEFS - Association des producteurs et vendeurs de fruits du sud
  • Local authorities and elected officials from the Belle-Anse arrondissement
  • CLIO – Comité de Liaison Inter-ONG
  • CPH (Comité Protos Haïti)
  • COOPCAB (Coopératives des Producteurs de Café de l’Arrondissement de Belle Anse)
  • CONCERN
  • CROSE (Coordination régionale des organisations du Sud-Est haïtien)
  • CUDES (Confédération des usagers de l'irrigation du sud-est)
  • GTIH (Groupe Technologie Intermédiaire d'Haïti)
  • FECCANO (Fédération des Coopératives de producteurs de cacao du Nord )
  • FONHADI (Fondation nationale haïtienne de l'irrigation)
  • ICEF (Institut de consultation, d’évaluation et de formation)
  • The towns of Thiotte and Dessalines
  • MARNDR (Ministère de l’Agriculture des ressources naturelles et du développement rural)
  • MPP – Mouvement des Paysans de Papaye
  • PFI – Petits Frères de l'Incarnation
  • UCOCAB (Union des coopératives caféières de Baptiste)
  • VETERIMED (NGO that specializes in livestock farming and animal health)

GUATEMALA

  • APAPTIX (Association de promoteurs agricoles du Triangle Ixil)
  • APROBA SANK (Asociación Pro Bienestar en Acción –Saaq Aach’ool Nimla K’aleba’al) –
  • CHOKOY/ BTZIN BATZ (Coordinating body of local organizations from San Lucas Toliman) -
  • CNOC (Coordinación nacional de organizaciones campesinas)
  • FAUSAC (Faculté d’agronomie de l’université de San Carlos du Guatemala)
  • FUNDAMAYA
  • IDEAR/ CONGCOOP (Institut d’études agraires et rurales)
  • MANOS CAMPESINAS (Civil association of smallholder coffee associations)

HONDURAS

  • Cooperativa Nueva Lucha (Choluteca)

NICARAGUA

  • ADAA-UCA (Área de Estudios Agrarios y Rurales de la Universidad Centroamericana) –
  • CODER (Commission de développement rural de Cinco Pinos)
  • Coordinación de los Pueblos Chorotegas
  • Grupo Tierra (consortium of NGOs and smallholder organizations whose work is focused on land) –
  • NITLAPAN Institute
  • UNAG (Unión Nacional de Agricultores y ganaderos)
  • UCOSD  (Unión de Campesinos Organizados de San Dionisio)
  • IPADE (Instituto para el Desarrollo y la Democracia)

South America

BOLIVIA

  • ANAPQUI (Asociación nacional de productores de quinoa)
  • AOPEB (Asociación de Organizaciones de Productores Ecológicos de Bolivia)
  • APROQUIGAN (Asociación de productores de quinoa y crianzas de Llica)
  • CONAMAQ (Consejo nacional de Ayllus y Markas del Qollasuyu)
  • CEJIS (Centro de Estudios Jurídicos e Investigación Social- Santa Cruz
  • CIOEC (Comité integrador de organizaciones económicas campesinas de Bolivia) et coopératives affiliées
  • FECAFEB (Federación de Caficultores Exportadores de Bolivia) et coopératives affiliées
  • FINCAFE (Fondo de inversion y crédito para los cafetaleros)
  • KURMI-COCHABAMBA (Apoyo al desarrollo sostenible interandino)
  • National Institute for Agrarian Reform
  • JAKISA (federation of indigenous organizations in the southern part of the Oruro department)
  • The towns of Salinas de Garci Mendoza, Llica, Tahua, Morochata, Tiquipaya
  • MST-B (Movimiento de los Sin Tierras)
  • Vice-Ministry of Lands

BRAZIL

  • AACC (Associação de Apoio as Comunidades do Campo)
  • ACAP (Associação de Cooperação Agrícola e Reforma Agrária do Paraná (ACAP/PR)
  • AS-PTA (Assessoria e Serviços a Projetos em Agricultura Alternativa)
  • CETAP (Centro de Tecnología Alternativas Populares)
  • CF8 (Centre Féministe 8 mars)
  • CPRA (Centro Paranaense de Referência em Agroecologia)
  • MST (Movimento dos Trabalhadores sem Terra)
  • PATAC (Programa de Aplicação de Tecnologias Apropriadas)
  • POAB (Pólo Sindical e das Organizações e da agricultura familiar de Borborema)
  • Réseau PARDAL (Programa de Assessoria Rural para o Desenvolvimento e a Autonomia do Local)
  • Réseau Xique Xique (Associação de Comercialização Solidária)
  • STR (Syndicat des travailleurs Ruraux)

COLOMBIA

  • ADC (Asociación de Desarrollo Campesino)
  • Fundaminga (Colombian foundation)
  • Gobernación de Nariño
  • SHAQUIÑAN (Asociación de Cabildos y Autoridades Tradicionales Indígenas del Nudo de los Pastos)

ECUADOR

  • CAMAREN (Consorcio para la capacitación en el manejo de los recursos naturales renovables)
  • CCM (Conseil des Communautés Pasto de Montufar)
  • CEDIR (Centro de desarrollo e investigación rural)
  • CEJC (Coordinadora Ecuatoriana del Comercio Justo)
  • CONASA (Consejo Nacional de Soberanía Alimentaria)
  • CESA (Central ecuatoriana de servicios agrícolas)
  • COPROBICH (Corporación de Productores y Comercializadores Orgánicos “Bio Taita Chimborazo”)
  • FICI (Fédération des communautés indiennes d'Imbabura)
  • FECONIC (Fédération des Communautés et Organisations Noires des provinces Imbabura et Carchi)
  • Groupe Terre et Réforme Agraire (includes several NGOs : IEE, FIAN, CDES, Heifer, CESA, SIPAE)
  • InterJuntas Chimborazo (Federation of water users in Riobamba)
  • MAGAP – Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Aquaculture, and Fisheries
  • MIES – Ministry of Economic and Social Inclusion
  • Municipalidad de Riobamba
  • SENAGUA (Secretaría Nacional del Agua)
  • SENPLADES (Sistema de Planificación del Desarrollo del Estado)
  • SIPAE (Système de recherche sur les problématiques agraires équatoriennes)

PERU

  • ACOPAGRO (Cooperativa de productores de Cacao)
  • ACPC (Asociación Central de productores de café Pichanaky)
  • APP Cacao (National association of small cocoa producers) and affiliated cooperatives
  • APROMALPI (Asociación de productores de mango del Alto Piura)
  • ARPAC (Asociación regional de productores agrícolas de Cusco)
  • ATIYPAQ (NGO) Huancavelica
  • CACVRA (Cooperativa de café del Valle del rio Apurimac)
  • CADEP Cusco (Centro andino de educación y promoción “Jose Maria Arguedas”)
  • CAI NARANJILLO (cooperativa Agro Industrial Naranjillo)
  • CECOALP (Central de cooperativas alpaqueras)
  • CECOVASA (Central de cooperativas de los valles de Sandeia)
  • CEDINCO Huancavelica (Centro de Desarrollo Integral de las Comunidades)
  • CEPES (Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales)
  • CEPIBO (Central Piurana de Banano Orgánico)
  • CEPICAFE (Central Piurana de Cafetaleros)
  • CNCJ (Coordinadora Nacional de organizaciones de pequeños productores del Comercio Justo)
  • Comunidad campesina de Choco
  • Cooperativa Agraria Cafetalera CAC Satipo
  • Cooperativa Agraria Cafetalera Ecológica (CACE) Santa Cruz
  • COSAT (Cooperativa de café de Satipo)
  • Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito COOPAC NORANDINO (CEPICAFE- CENFROCAFE – Oro Verde)
  • Cooperativa de servicios múltiples COOP NORANDINO (CEPICAFE, CENFROCAFE, SOLyCAFE)
  • CO2 Consultores
  • Escuela para el Desarrollo
  • Gouvernement régional de Puno
  • INDESCO (Instituto Integral de Desarrollo Comunal)
  • Municipalidades de Anta y Chumbivilcas (Cusco), Yauli, Castrovirreyna y Angara       es (Huancavelica)
  • PROGRESO (Promoción de la Gestión Rural Económica y Social) (ex-PIDECAFE)
  • REMURPE (Red de Municipalidades Rurales del Perú)

Africa and the Indian Ocean

In Africa and in the Indian Ocean, AVSF has established historic partnerships with livestock farmer organizations and federations (pastoralism and small-scale livestock farming), with rural and pastoral communities, and with associations of community animal health workers, some of which were actually created previously through AVSF’s work. Over the past few years, AVSF has reinforced its cooperation with African NGOs as well as regional and national smallholder unions and has established new links with cooperatives and associations of agricultural producers in strategic sectors (dairy, meat, poultry, grains, sesame, fonio, litchis and other fruits, etc.). AVSF has strengthened its partnerships with certain public services, in particular in the areas of livestock farming and human health, and with local authorities in Sénégal, Burkina Faso, Mali, Togo, and Madagascar.

BURKINA FASO

  • Bilital Maroobe
  • SECAM (Research office)

MADAGASCAR

  • Associations d'Auxiliaires Vétérinaires
  • Association Nationale d’Actions Environnementales (ANAE)
  • Associations de producteurs agro-écologiques (Manakara, Vohipeno)
  • Directorate of Veterinary Services of Madagascar
  • MAEP (Ministry of Agriculture of Madagascar)
  • Maison des Paysans
  • Programme PPRR - Programme de Promotion des Revenus Ruraux - (FIDA)
  • RAMILAMINA
  • The Atsinanana Region
  • Union Fanohana des coopératives de producteurs de litchi et vanille de la région d’Analanjirofo - Madagascar
  • WWF Madagascar

MALI

  • ADESAH (Association pour le Développement Endogène au Sahel)
  • AOPP (Association des Organisations Professionnelles Paysannes)
  • ASACO (Association de Santé Communautaire)
  • Regional Assembly of Timbuktu
  • Basic community centers and technical health services in the Timbuktu region
  • Local authorities (91 communes and intercommunalities) of the Cercles of Goundam, Tombouctou, Diré, Niafunké, Koro, Bankass, and Kayes, and the five Cercle councils
  • 174 cooperatives for the use of agricultural equipment from the Cercles of Kita (in the Kayes region), Bougouni, Yanfolila, and Kolondiéba (in the Sikasso region), et their two unions
  • Regional directorates of veterinary health and animal production in Timbuktu
  • ICD (Initiatives Conseil Développement)
  • Le Grenier du Paysan (limited liability company engaged in the processing of agro-food products)
  • Le Damier
  • Union des éleveurs du Cercle de Tombouctou
  • Services nationaux d’hydraulique

NIGER

  • AREN (Association pour la Redynamisation de l’Elevage au Niger)
  • FNEN DADDO (Fédération nationale des éleveurs du Niger)
  • KARKARA (Association that supports local initiatives)

SENEGAL

  • AAJAC COLUFIFA (Association Africaine de la Jeunesse Agricole de Casamance – Comité de Lutte pour la Fin de la Faim)
  • ADPS (Association Départementale des Producteurs de Sésame du département de Vélingara)
  • Regional Assembly of Matam
  • Association des auxiliaires d’élevage de Vélingara
  • Association des éleveurs de caprins de Fatick
  • Association des propriétaires d’équidés de Vélingara
  • CINAFIL (Comité Interprofessionnel National des Acteurs de la Filière Lait local)
  • The “Larogal” dairy cooperative
  • DIRFEL Kolda et Tambacounda (Directoire des Femmes en Elevage)
  • Fédération départementale des aviculteurs de Vélingara
  • Fédération des producteurs de lait de Kolda
  • Fédération des Unités Pastorales de Matam
  • Fédération des transformateurs d’anacarde "Ngalu Mbaïlandi" mobilisant 5 groupements à la base
  • FENPROSE (Fédération Nationale des Producteurs de Sésame)
  • Associations of women cashew processors from Kouthioye and Samassansang (the department of Vélingara)
  • MDE Kolda et Tambacounda (Maison des Eleveurs)
  • Organisation faitière ADC/Ninnaba
  • The pastoral units of Thionokh and Vélingara Ferlo (Matam)

TOGO

  • ANPAT (Association Nationale des Producteurs Avicoles)
  • Bureau National des Chambres Régionales d’Agriculture (BN CRA)
  • CPC (Centrale des Producteurs de Céréales)
  • Direction de l’Elevage – Ministère de l’agriculture de l’élevage et de la pêche
  • FUPROCAT (Fédération des Unions de Producteurs de Café Cacao du Togo)
  • ICAT (Institut de Conseil et d’Appui Technique)
  • ITRA (Institut togolais de recherche agronomique)
  • INADES Formation
  • OADEL (Organisation d’appui à la démocratie et au développement local)
  • ONMVT Ordre National des Médecins Vétérinaires du Togo
  • UAAVET (Union des Associations des Auxiliaires villageois d'élevage de Tône)
  • Union des producteurs de café et cacao ATSEMAWOE

Asia

In Asia, AVSF contributes to the institutional development of national NGOs, working directly with associations of livestock farming assistants and of health defense groups. AVSF supports professional agricultural smallholder organizations, many of which are quite new but which are now flourishing. In all of these countries, cooperation is carried out in close partnership with local authorities and with national and local public services (livestock farming and veterinary services).

CAMBODIA

  • Associations of village animal health agents from Takeo
  • ADA (Agricultural development action)
  • AED (Academy for Educational Development)
  • CEDAC (Centre d'Etude et Développement Agricole au Cambodge)
  • CRC (Cambodian Red Cross)
  • DAE (Department of Agricultural Extension) of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries
  • Department of Animal Health and Production (Ministry of Agriculture)
  • Federation of Cambodian Farmer Organizations for Development (FCFD)
  • OCKENDEN Cambodia
  • Nexus – Carbon for Development network
  • VRC (Vétérinaires ruraux du Cambodge)

LAOS

  • PAFO Oudomxay

MONGOLIA

  • The “Ar Arvijin Delgerekh” cooperative of yak farmers in the Khangai mountains
  • Department of Veterinary Services, Ministry of Food and Agriculture of Mongolia
  • Federation of livestock farmers from the Arkhangai aimag
  • Ikh Bogdin Tsaram Maltchdiin Kholboo (Federation of livestock farmers from Bogd)
  • Sar Uuliin Khalil Maltchdiin Kholboo (Federation of livestock farmers from Jinst)
  • Regional veterinary services of Arkanghai (veterinary services of the aimags)
  • Regional veterinary services of Bayankhongor

VIETNAM

  • The People's Committee of the Mu Cang Chai district
  • Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD) of the Yên Bái province
  • Department of Planning & Investment (DPI) of the Yên Bái province
  • Department of Animal Health (DAH), provincial Sub-Department of Animal Health (SDAH), district veterinary stations
  • National Institute of Animal Husbandry (NIAH)
  • Local veterinary networks
  • National Women's Union
  • The Sub-Department of Animal Health (SDAH) of the Yên Bái province