welcome to the Regional Learning Route

Strengthening resilience capacities of Caribbean producer organizations: Exploring on-the-ground solutions to enhance their participation in agricultural value chains.

 

November 12th to 18th, 2023
BRAZIL

 

Participants
Countries
Host Experiences
Climate-smart Solutions
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WELCOME👋🏾

Throughout history the word 'route' has been synonymous with adventure and discovery: the Silk Route, the Tea Route, the Nile Route, the Inca Route. These famous journeys took adventurers to new horizons, to exotic places, to different worlds full of possibilities.

It is a pleasure for PROCASUR and the FO4ACP Programme to welcome you to our own travelling adventure. We invite you on a journey towards new knowledge, successful and revealing experiences, fresh ideas and innovative solutions.

The Learning Route is a continuous process of learning in the field, which seeks to expand and diversify rural technical advisory services, including and valuing the best experiences and knowledge of organizations, companies and Rural Champions in the country.

We hope that in the course of this expedition, everyone's experience and knowledge will also be a rich source of learning.

Learning in the field

During the Learning Route, we will meet and exchange experiences and good practices in developing solutions to address climate change, in which the managers, leaders, and small producers become the trainers.

  1. Development of technological solutions for water harvesting, water distribution and soil management under sustainable approaches and practices
    • Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa Semiárido / Petrolina Pernambuco)
    • Escola Família Agrícola -EFA de Sobradinho
    • Instituto Regional da Pequena Agropecuária Apropriada -IRPAA
  2. Organic production, transformation and agro-processing, sustainable production, commercialization, and access to markets.
    • Central da Caatinga
    • Cooperativa Agropecuária Familiar de Canudos, Uauá e Curaçá
  3. Predial and associative solutions for the inclusion of non-conventional renewable energies (solar, biomass, wind, etc.).
    • Cooperative of Rural Producers of Monteiro Ltda. (CAPRIBOM)
  4. Water reuse, soil conservation and/or recovery, agroforestry systems, bio-input processing
    • National Institute of the Semi-Arid (INSA) – (Campina Grande -Paraíba) 

Climate-smart Solutions

Check here some of the innovative solutions we will visit during the route.

AGENDA Check here the schedules and activities

09.30 - 16.30

Arrival of participant to Petrolina and transfer to Juazeiro

17.30 - 18.00

Opening session of the Learning Route

  • Welcome and opening remarks
  • Presentation of Participants

18.00 - 19.30

Context: Climate Change and F.O

  • Introduction to the methodology, host cases and agenda
  • Climate Change in the Semiarid region, farmers organizations and public policy
  • Fair experience exercise

06:30 - 07:30

Breakfast

07:30 - 8:30

Transfer from Juazeiro to Petrolina

08:30 - 09:00

EMPRAPA: Context presentation

The Semi-Arid and natural resources - economic and social purposes

06:30 - 07:30

Breakfast

08:00 - 08:30

Transfer from Juazeiro to Vargem da Cruz

08:30 – 10:30

Training Center Dom José Rodrigues, Vargem da Cruz -IRPAA-

Development and experimentation of social technologies for coexistence with the semi-arid zone, Regional Institute of Appropriate Small Farming -IRPAA-

06:30 - 07:15

Breakfast

07:15 - 07:30 

Transfer to Coopercuc

07:30 - 10:00

Cooperativa Agropecuária Familiar de Canudos, Uauá e Curaçá (COOPERCUC)

Ecological agriculture and inclusion of renewable energies in agro-industrial processes

 

COOPERCUC WEBISTE 

06:30 - 07:00

Breakfast

07:00 - 11:00

Transfer to Monteiro

11:00 - 12:30 

Innovation Plans Workshop

at CAPRIBOM Auditorium

06:30 - 07:00

Breakfast

07:00 - 07:30

Transfer to Prata Municipality

07:30 - 09:30

Tecnic visit to Boa Vista Site

Water reuse technology coupled with photovoltaic panels

06:30 - 07:15

Breakfast

07:15 - 07:45

Transfer to INSA

08:00 - 09:00 

Workshop on Solutions Analysis

Energy & Biodiversity 

This activity is carried out in the framework
of the FO4ACP Programme and is organised by