The GSDM: Professionals of Agro-ecology

Created in 2000 as an association, the Direct Seeding Madagascar Group (GSDM) brings together 15 members involved in agro-ecology and more particularly the techniques of Direct Seeding on Permanent Plant Cover (SCV):

• ANAE (National Association of Environmental Actions)
• the NGO TAFA (Earth and Development)
• FAFIALA,
• Center of experimentation and dissemination for the peasant management of the Tanety
• FIFAMOR,
• Center for Research and Rural Development in Agriculture based in Antsirabé
• FOFIFA,
• National Center for Applied Research in Rural Development
• BRL, Bas-Rhône Languedoc-Madagascar company
• SD-MAD Semis Direct de Madagascar, SARL involved in the dissemination of DMCs in Lac Alaotra
• VERAMA (VERgers d´Anacardes de MAsiloka), a subsidiary of the UNIMA group, works in the rural town of Antonibe, district of Analalava, region of Sofia
• AVSF (Agronomists and Veterinarians Without Borders), French NGO involved in the dissemination of DMCs in Lac Alaotra and in the South East.
• INTER AIDE Manakara, a French NGO that has been working for a long time in rural development in the Manakara region
• GRET (Groupe de Recherches et d´Echanges Technologiques): French NGO which runs a rural development program known as Objectif Sud in the Ambovombe region.
• CARE INTERNATIONAL Madagascar, international NGO that carries out rural development actions in different regions of Madagascar.
• FEKRITAMA (Confederation of Malagasy Farmers), umbrella peasant organization. It brings together 9 national producer organizations.
• WWF Madagascar, NGO headquartered in Switzerland and operating on Malagasy territory with representation in Antananarivo Funded by the French Global Environment Facility (FFEM)
• Mr. RAMAROSON Ignace, former PCA and former Executive Director of the NGO TAFA