Introduction

ROPPA is an initiative specific to farmers’ organizations and agricultural producers in West Africa. It brings together 13 member national farmer organizations (Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo) and associated member farmer organizations (Cap- Green, Nigeria).

Since its creation in June 2000, in Cotonou, ROPPA has positioned itself as a tool for the defense and promotion of family farms which constitute the main production system in West Africa.

Its operation is based on three main principles:

1. 1. Peasant solidarity which gives a place to everyone by associating all categories of Peasant Organizations and Agricultural Producers in each country and which supports peasant organizations and agricultural producers and their members in the recognition of their identity, their rights and their roles;
   2. Consensus which is the preferred approach for deciding and acting together and;
   3. Transparency by reporting and regularly ensuring the renewal of mandates.

VISION 

CHALLENGES   

• • Agriculture – in the broad sense – concerns 60 to 80% of the population in each of our countries. It must provide each producer with a sustainable full-time occupation, decent income and a social and environmental living environment;

• • Agriculture must be the basis of food security in each of our countries: provide rural and urban populations with food in sufficient quality and quantity and thereby contribute to the development of the entire national and regional economy;

• • Make our peasant organizations and agricultural producers, their national and sub-regional consultation frameworks credible actors, carriers of proposals and dynamism;

• • Contribute through our mobilization, our capacities and our values ​​to the harmonious and beneficial insertion of our countries, our sub-region and our region in the world of economic relations.