National Union of Autonomous Regional Peasant Organizations (UNORCA)

Mexico is home to tens of millions of small producers increasingly squeezed off their land by unfair trade policies and public neglect. The National Union of Autonomous Regional Peasant Organizations (UNORCA) is an autonomous, non-profit and non-partisan network of Mexican campesino and indigenous farming organizations advocating for small farmers’ livelihoods and rights.

Since 1985 UNORCA has provided technical assistance in natural resource management, marketing, and implementation of projects and programs for productive enterprises, rural development, human and indigenous rights and agrarian issues for peasant and indigenous peoples’ organizations. They provide support and financing for agricultural, livestock, forestry and fisheries projects.

In addition to its national agenda, UNORCA is one of the leading organizations of Via Campesina – North America which struggles for a sustainable and farmer and farmworker-oriented agriculture, for a dignified life in the countryside and for peoples’ food sovereignty.