Investing in rural people in Paraguay

IFAD-funded operations in Paraguay focus on empowering smallholder farmers and indigenous families by creating and strengthening rural organizations - in terms of governance, organizational administration and service capacity - to provide members with the tools they need to manage their own development.

Training and funding allow rural organizations’ members to increasingly use technology in agricultural production in a number of areas:

• sound input use techniques
• soil conservation practices
• efficient irrigation
• use of appropriate genetic resources.