About Us

The Agro-forestry Coordinating Association of Indigenous Peoples and Farmers is an association of community-based organizations, apolitical, dynamic and remarked for its flexibility and adaptation capacity to the accelerated changes that rural communities in Central America are facing.

This adaptive capacity is focused on seeking local socio-productive integration, promoting eco-development and community empowerment for indigenous peoples and farmers, based on their experiences, as a hands-on solution to socio-environmental and cultural vulnerability in Central America.

Our focus is directed to communities’ social, cultural, productive, economic and environmental development in their communal ecosystems, based on their experiences, aiming to generate empowerment and local sustainability, which has been called Community eco-development. In ACICAFOC, our approach to working in the communities and the organizational practices is based on a work philosophy, where gender and equity are key for development.

This approach has allowed ACICAFOC building work methodologies that integrate, as cornerstone of all activities carried out, features from every participant community. This is possible because ACICAFOC is a base organization that works from multiple communities; therefore, its specificity is a reflection of our member communities’ multiethnic and multicultural composition.

Our vision

“ACICAFOC will be the Central American Organization leader in community agro-forestry, agro-ecology, and political advocacy in order to support human, social, economic, and environmental development for indigenous peoples and local communities.”

Our mission

“ACICAFOC is a non-profit community based organization, that works facilitating responsible use and management of natural resources, in order to contribute to socio-productive development, respecting indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ cultural dynamics in Central America.”