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Model consensus proposal Participatory Guarantee System in Nicaragua

producers and agro-ecological and organic production, consumer representatives, public and private institutions, aid agencies and NGOs, succeeded in establishing a consensus to create, organize and implement a proposed model Participatory Guarantee System (SGP) National during the national workshop held on 21 and 22 September 2010 at the Hotel Seminole, Managua, Nicaragua.

The proposed model National SGP is to create a participatory certification system capable of ensuring national and local consumer products and agro-quality organic and attached to the agricultural policy Nicaraguan organic.

The model envisions full participation by small producers (as) and consumer groups are excluded from the standard certification system, differing in their methodology of implementation, costs, recognition and credibility. It also aims to become a conformity assessment body recognized by the government and its institutions, businesses, industries and retail outlets.

The administration of the GSP will be in charge of governing body is the National Commission is a body "public private" attached to decentralized public institutions and recognition of the private sector. Under the National Commission there will be a management board made up of a technical secretariat and a facilitator (coordinator), a Committee for Standardization and Documentation, Legal Assistance and the Departmental Council are responsible for the support and operationalize the GSP.

The workshop included the special participation Laércio Meirelles (Brazil) agroecology specialist who shared the different models implemented in the World GSP. Brazil is the only country where the government has recognized the GSP; created apart from the traditional system of certification, Conformity Assessment System, Organic (SisOrg) which has its own stamp to identify the organic and recognize that two types of GSP: A formal system controlled by the Government and an informal system known as Social Control Organizations, not integrated into SisOrg.

The workshop ended with closing remarks by Mrs Amanda Lorio, Vice Minister of MAG-emphasize a concern and a priority for the Central Government, is the recovery of traditional farming systems as a strategy food sovereignty and security and where the agro-ecological and organic production play a key role, for it that the GSP could be used as effective instruments for the promotion and consumption of traditional products.

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Alliance for the Promotion of Alternative Markets and Solidarity


By Harold Calvo Reyes

With the involvement of cooperative sector in Nicaragua, international agencies and public and private institutions, Inter-Alliance was formalized for the Promotion of Alternative Markets and Agroecological Product Solidarity (MASPAE).

This Alliance aims

1.Promocionar and promote the implementation and recognition of Participatory Guarantee Systems as a means to boost local and national trade of organic products and agro-ecological.

2.Promote and encourage good manufacturing practices in the agro-ecological and organic inputs are used, methods and techniques in harmony with the environment, minimizing use of nonrenewable resources.

3.Promote and promote local and national markets as a space for community level where producers (as) and consumers (as) develop a fair and equitable trade relationship. 4.Promover

economic solidarity and associational form of organization based on solidarity and mutual aid, social and economic objectives, which aims is to satisfy the needs of its partners and members of the community.

Based on the experience of the Alliance of Agroecology Carazo with the implementation of the SGP in the department of Carazo, Inter Alliance, has been undertaking actions to prepare the conditions to develop and implement a national SGP capable to coordinate all existing national experiences to certify and ensure quality of produce grown by small producers (as) currently excluded from the traditional certification system.

is why, from June 2010, the Alliance decided to create a national SGP model adapted to the conditions social, economic, political and institutional Nicaragua, where the main leaders and actors, are the small farmers' organizations (as) and consumers.

This model will be discussed at a national workshop that the Partnership held on 21 and September 22, 2010 in Seminole, where participating hotel, in addition to members of the Alliance, including the following national and international organizations:

• Foundation for Women of Estelí (FEM)
• Association Nandaime
NOCHARI-Community Movement of Managua
• Ministry of Economy and Trade (MIFIC)
• Ministry Agriculture and Forestry (MAG)
ADDAC-Matagalpa
• National Agrarian University (UNA)
• Ecovida (Brazil)
• Producers Association Turrialba Costa Rica (APOT)