CIRAD and AFD launch the first fund to support geographical indications in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific 04/02/2021 - Press release CIRAD and the Agence Française de Développement recently launched the “Geographical Indications Facility”, to run for a period of four years from 2021. Its goal is to provide actors in the African, Caribbean and Pacific States with technical and financial support for the development of geographical indications. Geographical indications (GIs) are intended to recognize and promote local products whose quality, reputation or characteristics are fundamentally linked to their territory of origin. Penja pepper and Oku honey (Cameroon), Ziama-Macenta coffee (Guinea), sugarloaf pineapples from the Allada plateau (Benin), and Teboursouk olive oil (Tunisia) are just some examples in Africa, along with Kampot pepper (Cambodia) in Asia. GIs are both a quality process within a sector linked to a collective territorial project, and an intellectual property right recognized by the World Trade Organization (WTO).