Annual Report

2024-2025

Annual Report

2024-2025

Our Projects

Benin

Since our initial exchanges with Beninese agricultural organisations in 1998, several projects have emerged, allowing us to continue promoting family farming in the country.

Femmes-Hwé-Nou

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Bolivia

Since 2015, UPA Développement international has supported Bolivian organisations through its Agro-Innov Network volunteer cooperation program. Activities in the country have grown significantly since 2020.

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Burkina Faso

Even before the creation of UPA Développement international (UPA DI) in 1993, visits and exchanges were carried out in Burkina Faso by Quebec agricultural leaders.

Corn Processing Center

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Canada

Since 1993, our roots in Quebec's agricultural community have nourished and shaped our international initiatives.

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Guinea

Following a major project supporting onion and potato farmers from 2003 to 2010, we are delighted to be working once again in Guinea.

Femmes Pro-Forêts

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Haiti

UPA DI has been working continuously in Haiti since 2009, in solidarity with our partners, despite the difficult context in the country.

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Indonesia

Thanks to the efforts of the AgriCord alliance, of which we are a member, this was UPA DI's first project in Asia.

UPSCALE

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Mali

Since the mid-1990s, collective marketing of cereals has been underway in Mali with Faso Jigi, a long-standing partner of UPA Développement international.

Dou Touloma

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Peru

After several projects in Latin America, UPA DI is now present in Peru since 2020, particularly in the coffee sector.

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Senegal

This West African country enabled us to innovate in 2004 with our training approach, Les Savoirs des gens de la terre (Knowledge of the People of the Land), and we have been active there ever since.

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Tunisia

PSSEETAT

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Martin Caron

President of the Board

The future of agriculture, here and around the world, depends greatly on the decisions we make and the actions we take today. Hence the expression, “The future starts now.”

This projection into the future calls for deep reflection. Are the necessary resources available? Is the sustainability of family farming assured? Are collective marketing systems alive and well? Are structural initiatives continuing to emerge? Does the next generation of farmers have confidence in the future?

Each of these questions is relevant and deserves careful consideration. If the answer to most of them is yes, we must continue along the same path. If the answer is no, we must act, innovate, unite, and collectively change the course of events —preferably sooner rather than later.

This concern for the future is central to the mission of UPA Développement international (UPA DI), which, since 1993, has drawn on Quebec's agricultural values to support the development of a large number of rural communities around the world. To do this, we pilot environmentally friendly projects that are transferable to future generations and designed to enhance food security and autonomy for populations.

Our local farmers can take pride in all these projects, as well as in the many forms of representation that UPA DI provides to numerous international organizations. Reading this annual report will surely convince you!

Hugo Beauregard-Langelier

Chief Executive Director

While many are content to believe that the future will be the same as the past or trying to revive an idealized version of the past, others are forging ahead, dreaming of a future they are building. For them, the future is not something that simply happens to us, but something shaped by the actions we take.

These dreams to be built and actions to be taken, have been central in the past year at UPA Développement international (UPA DI). All this leading to the adoption of a new strategic plan, an opportunity to reflect on the mark UPA DI seeks to leave in the evolving landscape of agriculture and international solidarity.

Rooted in its history, engaged in the present, and ambitious towards the future, UPA DI's vision is for those who feed the world and inhabit our agricultural lands to live with dignity from the fruit of their labour. This vision is built on ecological economic growth, strong collective action, and the socio-economic empowerment of women.

But the realization of these aspirations will inevitably depend on young people, the next generation, who will live in a time where the potential for technological and social innovation has never been greater, yet crises have never been more frequent or severe.

If, as they say, history repeats itself, we must trust these young people who will feed us tomorrow to rise to the challenges they will face, just as our ancestors did before us. And if history repeats itself, UPA DI will be by their side to dream, innovate, and build a future driven by collective action, solidarity, equity, social justice, respect, and democracy.

Happy reading!