“Small-scale farming is a viable model as we have the expertise, quality and access to a profitable market”.

“On the East coast, Malagasy farmers are struggling to generate sufficient income from their activity: cash crops benefit large exporters, who control the market via local intermediaries. […] The value creation of cash crops through fair trading therefore improves the food-crop production and the food security of families; there is a real synergy.”

“We, as small growers, are considered for growing, not for making decisions. We don’t want projects in support of poor small growers. We want REAL human rights.”

“Here, the trees are not cut, and we haven’t used pesticides for fifteen years.
There are butterflies, bees, centipedes, and a rich vegetation cover, we respect nature”.