Their vision is a world where each and every one has the means to have sustainable, sufficient, healthy and balanced food, to make a decent living from one’s activities and to exert one’s fundamental rights.

ADG, a Belgian development NGO, are legitimate and recognized for their expertise in supporting family agricultures, promotion of agro-ecology and the achieving of greater food sovereignty, activities of farming families in the regions where they operate, responsible consumer habits and healthy diets.

To help make this vision a reality, in collaboration with their partners, they provide capacity-building to families, mainly farming families, and their members to help them exert their rights (to food, to a decent income, to sustainable access to natural resources, to collective expression and individual choices, to respect and valorization of cultural identities and non-discrimination, to education, social protection and health), through information and awareness-raising of their stakeholders in the South or in Belgium; supporting local initiatives with technical, methodological, material and financial assistance; improving the knowledge of these families and of the development actors; promoting dialogue between farmers’ organizations, authorities and other stakeholders; concerted advocacy activities when these rights are not respected.

They achieve this by paying particular attention to integrating their activities into local dynamics and evolutions, by making sure they respect and promote the key role played by local actors in the conception of activities, their implementation and monitoring; taking into account the needs of all, by promoting inclusive development and paying a particular attention to vulnerable groups; the sustainability of their actions from environmental, cultural, institutional, technical, economic and political points of view; their responsibility and accountability towards the populations with whom they work; a joint construction and sharing knowledge and skills, especially with their partners, and to involve their teams in a process of shared learning; the satisfaction of their personnel and members; the efficiency of their actions and of their processes; their responsibility and accountability towards their donors and the organizations that finance them.
 

Their positioning, their actions and their processes are based on the following values: respect of others, integrity, quality work, respect of the environment, responsibility, cooperation, dialogue, critical sense and creativity, independence, commitment and coherence.