A workshop to discuss and share was held in Conakry from 27 to 30 September, providing an opportunity to highlight the results of the project for Food security, resilience and agroecology (Sara)*, after 10 years of support from agricultural value chain stakeholders in Forest Guinea and Middle Guinea.
Chaired by the Ministry of Agriculture, this workshop brought together senior staff from the ministerial departments involved, development stakeholders and farmers, processors and traders from the all over the country: federations, unions, groups, cooperatives, networks, etc. The objective was to present the results and effects of actions conducted, debate strategies and practices implemented, further explore some subjects, and provide avenues for potential future actions.
Participants contributed to several subjects: financial, material and seed autonomy, agroecology, agricultural advice, organisation and structuring of stakeholders, interprofessional consultation, etc. These elements will contribute to finalising capitalisation documents and videos that will soon be shared with all stakeholders.
Bringing the workshop to a close, Salématou Camara, chairperson of the Lower Guinea Federation of crop and salt cultivators, representing the National confederation of farming organisations, commended the positive impact of the Sara project on Guinean agricultural stakeholders’ lives: “The knowledge generated by this project must be used to foster stakeholders’ autonomy”, she concluded.
Promotion by the “Consommons guinéen*” store of local Guinean products (Let’s eat Guinean) during the workshop with the Deputy executive director of the Office for strategy and development at the Ministry of Agriculture.
*This project, conducted by GRET, CCFD-Terre solidaire, Fouta Djallon farmers’ federation (in French only) and the Guinean entrepreneur centre (in French only) in Guinea, is cofounded by the European Union, Agence française de développement, Comité français pour la solidarité internationale (in French only) and Fondation de France.
