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Mission
GALCI aims to develop influential
proposals in the organic and agroecological world movement, from the reality of
Latin America and the Caribbean.
Currently, GALCI represents
organizations (IFOAM members) like producers associations, traders, certifiers, NGOs and individuals from Latin America and the Caribbean.
Our visions internal and external:
Shared (external) vision
We
work and look for a global society with life quality, with informed happy
citizens exercising their rights and duties, based on the principles of
sustainable development and democracy; integrated; upholding values of
solidarity, equity and justice; open to changes; respectful regarding
traditional knowledge and cultural diversity; committed with the production and
consumption of organic and biodiverse products.
Internal
vision
GALCI
is a non-profit organization with a high level capacity to lobbying for organic
agriculture, integrated by IFOAM members and supporters and individuals working
in favor of organic agriculture in the region.
Our objectives include:
- Fomenting
action concerning IFOAM policies
- Fortifying
the expansion of organic agriculture and the movement in Latin
America and the Carribbean
- Actively
seeking alliances and political support by national governments,
intergovernmental agencies, parliaments, ministries and organizations,
with the objective generating favorable public policies supporting the
production, commercialization of organic products.
- Supporting
the transfer of knowledge and horizontal interchange between organizations
and promote the extension and application of ecological systems to other
sectors.
- Investigating
local, regional and national development of organic markets
- Serving as
a forum for the discussion and analysis of the contemporary situation for
organic agriculture in Latin America, the
Carribbean and the world
Coordinator: Patricia Flores Escudero, Las Grullas 248 - El Tipal, 4400 Salta (Argentina) Tel +54-387-4012202 - Fax: +54-387-4012202 Email: galci@ifoam.org
Vice - Coordinator: Carlos A. Escobar F. (Colombia)
Support Committee (by priorities/themes):
Markets and Guarantee System:
Jannet Villanueva (IDMA - Peru) and
Gustavo Birbuet (AOPEB - Bolivia)
Agrodiversity and Seeds: Anne Pipenstock (FUNDACION AGRECOLANDES - Bolivia)
and Miguel Castro (ANAO - Costa Rica)
Traditional Knowledge: Felipe Iñiguez (CIRPRO - Mexico)
and Antonieta Manrique (RAE - Peru) |
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