Organised at scale
Federations and unions already structure millions of farmers, a network no project could build from scratch.
Spotlight · Agriculture
The Federations That Feed the DRC
Some of the most fertile land on earth, farmed by millions of smallholders, organised into federations and unions that speak for them. This is the civil society that feeds a continent, and it carries knowledge no one else holds.
The DRC could feed itself and much of its region, yet millions still go hungry. Between the land and that promise stand the country's farmer organisations: national confederations, provincial federations and peasant unions that organise smallholders, defend their interests and build the value chains that turn a harvest into a living.
These organisations hold detailed, current knowledge of who farms what, where, and how well, knowledge that, structured and owned by them, can power food security, finance and fairer markets. This is the work Nashiriki presents and promotes, with the goal of connecting it on sovereign, interoperable foundations.
The Organisations
Knowledge held by those who work the land.
Two of the Congolese farmer organisations whose work Nashiriki champions, one national, one rooted in the east.
CONAPAC
The national confederation that unites farmer federations across every province, the voice of hundreds of thousands of family farmers.
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SYDIP
A peasant farmers' union that has organised North Kivu's smallholders, and kept them farming through conflict, since 1993.
Partner profile →Why It Matters
Four reasons the farmer's record counts.
Ground-level data
Farmer organisations know harvests, prices and needs first-hand, the data food security and finance depend on.
A route to finance
Structured, credible records open the door to the agricultural credit and markets smallholders are too often denied.
Resilient by design
Organisations that keep farming alive through conflict are exactly the ones worth building durable infrastructure with.
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Invest in the people who feed the country.
Do you fund or work on agriculture, food security or rural development in the DRC? Talk to us about supporting the farmer organisations that carry the work.