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IGP: a label to promote farmers in the South

Audio 48:30

Oku Forest, August 2015. Moving a beehive to set it up in the forest.

RFI/Alexis HUGUET

By: Chantal Lorho Follow

1 min

More than 80% of the world's food is produced by family farms and yet, among the 800 million people who suffer from hunger, 2/3 are precisely small farmers.

A paradox particularly visible in sub-Saharan Africa, but which is not inevitable.

We must improve production methods, in particular by disseminating agroecology, developing crop storage, allowing farmers access to land and governments finally investing in agriculture!

But we must also promote the products of farmers in developing countries to make room for them in our globalized economy.

This is the purpose of the protected geographical indication (PGI).

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Reports:

- Penja pepper, by

- Oku's honey, by

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A project accompanied by the program of small initiatives supported by the FFEM and the French Committee of the IUCN.

Guest:

, IGP project manager at AFD.

Penja pepper obtained a protected geographical indication (PGI) equivalent to the controlled designation of origin (PDO) in September 2013. Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0/Didier Descouens

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