WFP BROLL
P4P CONNECTS GUATEMALAN COOPERATIVES TO MARKETS
Footage
TRT: 2:47
Shot 
GUATEMALA - September  24 - 28, 2012

:00-:05 GUATEMALA shot: 25 September 2012
TAMAHO 
Guatemala Valley shot.

:05-:15 GUATEMALA shot: 28 September 2012
YUPILTEPEQUE, 
Jutiapa Province
Test plots for bean cultivation – allows hands on learning

:20-:44 GUATEMALA shot: 28 September 2012 
MOYUTA Municipality
ASSOCIATION CETREPSA
P4P Staff arrive in village for training session with cooperative members

:44-:52 GUATEMALA shot: 28 September 2012
IDALMA CANO - Member of cooperative
"Before the most we harvested was 4000 pounds, but now, thank God, we are harvesting between 9000 to 10000 pounds."

:44-:57 GUATEMALA SHOT: 28 September 2012
ASSOCIATION CETREPSA
Training on storage of maize after harvest, to avoid losses.

:57-1:41  GUATEMALA Shot:  28 September 2012
Moyuta Municipality
FELIPE LEHNOFF - P4P Guatemala
"These women before P4P, they sold their maize to the trader, to the coyote, the price was put by the trader and they sold it in the farm. Right now because of the trainings and the technical assistance they receive, through better practices they now sell their maize in a collective way, they know how to storage and they negotiate with WFP and other industries to receive better prices and better incomes for their families." 

1:41-1:56 GUATEMALA Shot: 27 September 2012
CHIQUIMULA - Ipala
ASSOCIATION ADEGO
Sifting sorting / packaging black beans which then get sold to supermarket chain - customer + checkout.

1:56-2:13 GUATEMAL Shot: 27 September 2012
EVANGELINA MARTINEZ - " I am happy with the credit they gave us and am cultivating more maize and black beans. Since i started work here i feel very happy because I have enough grains to live."

2:23-2:47 GUATEMALA Shot: 27 September 2012
CHIQUIMULA
Packaging black beans which then get sold to supermarket chain - customer + checkout  

ENDS 2:47

STORYLINE

In Guatemala, small scale farmers making a living from small plots of land struggle to produce bigger crops and become linked to markets so they can earn more income.
Under a pilot initiative – Purchase for Progress (P4P) - the UN is working with technical partners and farmers cooperatives to change that.
Working with 81 farmers organisations in Guatemala, P4P aims to secure food purchases of more than 20,000 metric tons of basic commodities, maize and beans, over four years. 
More than 50 percent of the members of these organisations are women, who have often been on the sidelines of family farming.
In Guatemala, women from one farmers cooperative have been able to grown high quality beans and increase their marketing skills. They are not just selling to the UN World Food Programme but also to a national supermarket chain.

BACKGROUND 
P4P works with financial institutions to improve smallholders’access to credit and with other partners to establish community-level plots to demonstrate farming techniques; deliver training on post-harvest handling; and facilitate access to storage facilities.  
P4P, through its partners, is working to strengthen the management capacities of cooperatives so they can capture a greater share of the market. There is a focus on enhancing the skills of women and their involvement in farmers cooperatives.   
WFP expects to connect smallholders through farmers cooperatives to government food security programmes, donor-run food assistance programmes, commercial buyers, and food processors.  
Sponsors of P4P in Guatemala include the Howard G. Buffett Foundation and the Government of Canada.   

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Contacts:
Frances Kennedy, Spokesperson, Rome frances.kennedy@wfp.org Office: +39 06 6513 3725 Tobias Bauer, Purchase for Progress P4P, tobias.bauer@wfp.org +39 06 6513 2227
Elizabeth Sagastume, WFP Guatemala, Elizabeth.sagastume@wfp.org +502 23336206