2005 International Activities of the Farmers’ Mutual Fund

Publiée le : 01 September 2006

Within the European Union, the highlights of the farmers’ fund activities are the Cafrat and Agriquadra projects, which the fund has been involved in since 2005. The Cafrat project, financed under the European Leonardo programme, concentrates on improving conditions and reducing injury in work involving a human-animal interface. Agriquadra, a project implemented under the Equal programme, seeks to improve salaried agricultural employment - particularly for older workers – through actions to promote activate ageing and gender equality. The fund has also been solicited by the European Commission to share its expertise with Hungary on social welfare programmes for rural communities.
In the emerging countries, the main cooperation programmes of 2005 concerned Morocco, Tunisia and Senegal. In Morocco, efforts focused on trials to simplify the declaration and payment of social contributions for daily paid agricultural labourers. In Tunisia, a network of local structures was tested across three governorates. And in Senegal, cooperation efforts were directed at incorporating a social protection component in the law on agricultural and forestry policy (LOASP) passed in 2005.

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