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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)