ROPPA Nourishing Africa

The Network of Farmers’ and Agricultural Producers’ Organizations of West Africa (ROPPA) is an initiative that brings together national farmers’ organizations from across West Africa.

Founded in 2000, its objective is to promote and defend sustainable family farming, and to ensure the representation of its members at the national, regional, and international levels.

ROPPA currently brings together 13 national member farmers’ organizations  from Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo  as well as associated member organizations from Cape Verde and Nigeria.

ROPPA positions itself as the key instrument for defending and promoting family farms, which constitute the main agro-sylvo-pastoral production system in West Africa.