The national confederation that unites farmer organisations across the DRC, so that the smallholders who feed the country are heard where agricultural policy, finance and markets are decided.
The Confédération Nationale des Producteurs Agricoles du Congo (CONAPAC) is the umbrella of the country's farmer movement, bringing together provincial federations from one end of the DRC to the other. It speaks for hundreds of thousands of family farmers, a majority of them women.
In a country with some of the richest farmland on earth and millions who still go hungry, CONAPAC works so that agriculture is treated as the backbone it is: defending farmers' interests, strengthening their organisations, and pressing for the policies and investment that let smallholders prosper.
CONAPAC was formed in 2011 to give the DRC's scattered farmer organisations a single national voice. It is not an organisation imposed from the capital but a confederation built from the bottom up: provincial federations, themselves made of local farmer groups and cooperatives, choosing to stand together.
Led by an elected president and rooted in its member federations, CONAPAC represents a vast membership of family farmers across every province, a majority of them women, alongside a large share of young people. That scale gives it standing few civil-society actors in the DRC can match.
Its work runs from the field to the ministry: defending farmers' interests in national policy, building the capacity of member organisations, and opening access to agricultural finance, inputs and markets so that smallholders are not left to fend for themselves.
CONAPAC works the whole length of the farmer's world, representing producers, strengthening their organisations and opening the door to finance and markets.
CONAPAC carries the demands of family farmers into national debate, pressing for an agricultural policy and budget that treat smallholders as the country's primary food producers.
Sustained advocacy on agricultural law and public investment in farming
A recognised national voice for the DRC's farmer movement
Membership figures published by CONAPAC (conapacrdc.org).
From its base in Kinshasa, CONAPAC unites farmer federations the length and breadth of the country.
Headquarters: national representation, advocacy and coordination of the confederation.
