Our principal partners

SFSA has many partners: government and non governmental organizations, research institutes, other foundations, banks and private corporations, all sharing a common goal to work with farmers to improve their livelihoods.

Brazil	Eritrea	Ethiopia
Projeto Dom Helder Camara (PDHC), co-financed by the government of Brazil and International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Secretariat for Territorial Development of the Ministry of Agrarian Development Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (EMBRAPA) National Confederation of Agricultural Workers (NCAW)	Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) University of Bern, Switzerland University of Asmara, Department of Geography and College of Agriculture National Agricultural Research Institute (NARI) Vision Eritrea	Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research, Melkassa Research Station
India	Kenya	Mali
Maharogi Sewa Samiti (MSS) Pragati Pratisthan KARRTABYA Shamayita Math Maharashtra Institute of Technology Transfer for Rural Areas (MITTRA) Centre for Development Education India (Gardens for Life)	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo (CIMMYT) Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) Rockefeller Foundation Kenya's Commercial Bank of Africa (an ASPIRE participant) Bank of Africa (an ASPIRE participant)	Farmer Organizations of Cinzana Gare and Katiena Faso Jigi Government of Mali, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Rural Economy (IER) International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development Promavi-Ranford
Nigeria	Rwanda	Tanzania
Lake Chad Research Institute	Banque Commérciale du Rwanda (an ASPIRE participant)	Tanzania's Eurafrican Bank (an ASPIRE participant)
Uganda	Switizerland	CGIAR
Kayunga District Farmers Association Uganda National Farmers Federation (UNFFE) Uganda Microfinance Union Ministry of Water, Lands & Environment, Department of Meteorology MTN Village Phone Uganda Helika Ltd Uganda's DFCU Bank (an ASPIRE participant)	Swisscontact Intercooperation The Swiss Business and Mission Councils Foundation(Third World Solidarity) The Swiss Commission for Research Partnerships with Developing Countries (KFPE) The Swiss Forum on International Agricultural Research and the The Center for International Agriculture (ZIL).	In October 2002, the Foundation joined the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), a consortium that sustains public agricultural research centers worldwide. The CGIAR welcomed the Foundation´s membership as marking "an important new direction in addressing hunger and poverty around the globe," one that establishes "new models for public-private partnerships."