FFORA was established to support both Indigenous territorial authorities and smallholder farmers’ organisation. We facilitate and broker finance flows directly to farmers and Indigenous organisations for climate resilience and biodiversity protection. Managed by a lean team, our vision is to build capacity in Indigenous and farmers’ organisations by working directly with their staff.
Set up to promote the innovation of Indigenous and smallholder farmers and open opportunities for them, FFORA envisions that the local Indigenous and farmers structures will be strong enough, or finally recognised as such, to change the current paradigm of climate finance and investments.
The aim is that re-imagined finance, tailored to local organisations’ needs, actually reaches them. This will enable farmers and Indigenous Peoples to own and manage their mechanisms to support their networks to build, or strengthen, just and biodiverse forests and farming systems.
FFORA is fighting for local funding based on trust, equal partnerships and anchored in local realities. Current support systems need to change so local people are in the ‘driving seat’ of any project, business or investment planned to benefit them. Moving away from an end beneficiary status, Indigenous Peoples and smallholder farmers must have an equitable and leading role in fair and transparent decision-making processes.
