You have entered the website of the project Social Organizations of Urban and Peri-urban Farmers (SOUPP): Management models and innovative Alliances for influencing public policy , an initiative of IPES and ETC Urban Agriculture that has been made possible with support from IDRC (Canada).

The project is characterized by action-oriented research, and was implemented from December 2004 to April 2006. It involved eight organizations of farming producers from Latin America and Europe.

The Project allowed for the in depth study of each organization, identifying the results they were able to achieve with the establishment of alliances and the implementation of innovative strategies. It also contributed to the formulation of participatory action-oriented research agendas with the farmers. The analysis also allowed the project team to develop a profile of the organizations and their members, formulate a typology, define their management models used for accessing resources and influencing policy and formulate concrete recommendations for their strengthening in the future.

In this website you will find detailed information about the project, information about the organizations studied, the different documents produced in the action-research process at the local and regional levels and a varied selection of pictures and videos, among other items of interest.

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