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A small producers' voice

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This is a presentation by Nelson Camilo Melo Maya, chair of the board of directors of Símbolo de Pequeños Productores (SPP) Global 2018-2021.

He was speaking at a webinar on 'Producer agency in certification schemes: challenges and opportunities' organised by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) in January 2021.

The webinar was part of the Empowering Producers in Commercial Agriculture (EPIC) project, which aims to empower rural producers and wider communities to influence public decisions and private sector conduct for locally beneficial and more sustainable investments in commercial agriculture.

EPIC is funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office through its Commercial Agriculture for Smallholders and Agribusiness (CASA) programme, though the views expressed do not necessarily reflect the views of the UK government. CASA seeks to increase economic opportunities for smallholders by demonstrating the commercial viability of businesses with significant smallholder supply chains and attracting more investment into the sector.

More details: https://www.iied.org/producer-agency-certification-schemes-challenges-opportunities

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A small producers' voice

  1. 1. 11 de novie mbre de 2020 Webinar IIED Producer agency in certification schemes: challenges and opportunities January 20, 2021 A small producers’ voice Nelson Melo Maya, Small Coffee Producer ORGANICA, Cauca, Colombia. Chair Board SPP Global La voz de un pequeño productor Fair trade coffee growers in Tacuba, El Salvador (Photo: Adam Baker via Flickr, CC BY 2.0)
  2. 2. HOW TO SURVIVE IN THE MARKET COMO MANTENERSE EN EL MERCADO ● Disadvantages small producers in trade negotiations ● Desventajas de los pequeños productores en las negociaciones comerciales. ● Most buyers want good, nice and cheap ● La mayoría de los compradores quieren bueno, bonito y barato. ● Our costs are high, and we have a lot of insecurity, but the market sees it as a problem only for producers ● Nuestros costos son altos y tenemos mucha inseguridad, pero el mercado lo ve como un problema sólo de los productores.
  3. 3. WHAT ABOUT CERTIFICATIONS? ¿Y QUÉ PASA CON LAS CERTIFICACIONES? ● Who and what are the standards and certification procedures for? ● ¿Quién y para qué se hacen las normas y los procedimientos de certificación? ● Good producers and traders have to be certified (organic, fair) for the bad practices of others ● Los productores y comerciantes buenos tienen que certificarse (orgánico, justo) por las malas prácticas de otros ● How can we prevent certification from becoming a mere business? ● ¿Cómo evitar que la certificación se convierta en un simple negocio?
  4. 4. AND WANT DO WE WANT? ¿Y QUÉ ES LO QUE QUEREMOS? ● True fair trade prices ● Precios realmente justos ● Recognition of small scale production and its impacts ● Reconocimiento de la pequeña producción y sus impactos ● Legal support of rights of small scale producers ● Reconocimiento legal de los derechos de los pequeños productores ● Broad public and private support of self-managed development processes ● Soporte amplio, público y privado, de los procesos de desarrollo autogestionarios
  5. 5. ¡Gracias! - Thanks! Nelson Melo, Chair SPP Global – nelsonmelo58@gmail.com

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