At a workshop organized on Tuesday, November 7, the World Bank launched the project to support the promotion of agricultural entrepreneurship and food security for local farmers' organizations in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Valentine Achancho, country director and IFAD representative, said that the workshop “marks the launch of the project to support the promotion of agricultural entrepreneurship and the food security of local farmers' organizations. This 4-year project, with financial support from GAFSP, is a World Bank initiative for food security supervised by the International Agricultural Fund (IFAD), a rural section that ensures the sustainability of investments and develops the agricultural supply roads in which we invest.” It enabled peasant organizations to play their role as economic services for the benefit of their members and to advocate

According to the representative of the COPACO Board of Directors, Nathanaël Buka, this workshop aims to present the outline of the project and to launch project activities that will last 4 years.