The 1st Meeting of Rural Leaders and IFAD Project Managers in the Expanded Mercosur brought together, between September 17 and 19, 2019, in Juazeiro, Bahia, the leaders of family, peasant and indigenous agriculture organizations affiliated to COPROFAM, the team of IFAD in the region and IFAD-financed project coordinators in six countries in Latin America, with the aim of discussing project management by results achieved, exchanging good practices and lessons learned, and promoting rapprochement and dialogue between IFAD projects and COPROFAM organizations.

We hope that this content will serve not only as a memory of an important meeting moment between leaders and institutions in the regional scope of Mercosur, but also as an overview of the main challenges shared by family farming with initiatives that have been bringing positive results and reference to other realities. Good reading!