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THE MOMENT IS NOW!

HOW WE PRODUCE, COMMERCIALIZE, CONSUME AND FEED OURSELVES WILL MARK OUR FUTURE.

 LET US PUT FAMILY FARMING AT THE CENTRE OF SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS! 

The World Rural Forum (WRF) invites you to the Global Conference: Family Farming at the core of Sustainable Food Systems, organised with the support of the European Union, and based on a participatory process involving family farming organisations, international organisations, governments, research centres and other relevant actors.

A Global Conference to scale up the implementation of the United Nations Decade of Family Farming (UNDFF) 2019-2028 towards more sustainable, resilient, inclusive, and viable food systems, contributing directly to the achievement of the SDG.

Simultaneous interpretation will be available in English, French & Spanish.

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The ultimate goal of the project is to unleash the unique potential of Family Farming in contributing to sustainable, inclusive, and resilient food systems and enhancing their leading role in the consecution of the SDGs. To this aim, the project will seek the development of an enabling policy environment to strengthen Family Farming and will stimulate the implementation of the United Nations Decade of Family Farming (UNDFF) 2019-2028 agenda, at the national level through the development of UNDFF National Action Plans, and at the international level raising the profile of the role of Family Farming in achieving sustainable, inclusive and resilient food systems.

Through a competitive challenge fund, the project will support the National Committees of Family Farming (NCFF) in their work to promote and participate in the elaboration and implementation of UNDFF National Action Plans in 12 countries of Asia (Philippines, Indonesia, and the Kyrgyz Republic), Africa (Sierra Leone, Kenya, Togo, Côte d’Ivoire and the Democratic Republic of Congo), and Latin America (El Salvador, Paraguay, Peru, and Ecuador).

The project will facilitate collaboration and knowledge sharing between the network of 45 NCFF and other numerous agents involved in the development of Family Farming worldwide (family farmers’ organizations, NGOs, academia, government institutions, and international organizations). Three Regional Exchange meetings (Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and the Caribbean) and one Global Exchange meeting will be organized virtually. Communication materials -dedicated to raise awareness and give visibility to the role of Family Farming in achieving sustainable food systems will also be elaborated.

And finally, the WRF will organize a high-level global conference on Family Farming and Sustainable Food Systems to enhance and put on the international agenda the relevance of Family Farming in achieving sustainable, inclusive, and resilient food systems, under the UNDFF 2019-2028 umbrella. It will be held virtually in November 2021.

We are convinced at the WRF that these actions funded by the EU will contribute to putting family farmers and the UNDFF 2019-2028 at the centre of food systems transformation in a sustainable, inclusive, and resilient way!

Arkaute, may 12, 2021. The Covid-19 crisis is impacting in a much deeper way on family farmers, who are, among the most vulnerable population. However, family farmers and their organizations have been in the frontline since the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis, ensuring consumers’ access to quality and healthy food, demonstrating their huge potential to ensure inclusive, equitable, and sustainable food systems and the basis of livelihood development.

The WRF together with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) worked on gathering the experience of family farmers in policy dialogue. The conclusions can be found in the report “Covid-19, family farming and the United Nations Decade of Family Farming 2019-2028 (UNDFF) Improving policy dialogue and supporting family farmers to better cope with future crises” (in English, Spanish and French). This synthesis report includes an analysis of the Covid-19 crisis on the implementation and emerging processes of the United Nations Decade of Family Farming (UNDFF) in 41 countries along with specific recommendations for using the Decade processes to strengthen family farming in the countries.

The UNDFF is an ongoing multistakeholders process to empower the family farming sector by supporting its resilience, profitability and sustainability, while continuing to contribute to the development of sustainable food systems. The National Committees for Family Farming (NCFFs) play a central role in implementing the UNDFF at the national level. The NCFFs are multistakeholders policy dialogue platforms on Family Farming started before 2014, in the framework of the International Year of Family Farming (IYFF 2014) and focused in promoting the development of public policies in favour of Family Farming. Nowadays  there are 45 NCFFs in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean that gather more than 1,570 Farmers’ organizations (FOs), NGOs, public institutions, research centres, cooperation agencies, etc. At least 925 of the members are farmers’ organizations.

During the Covid-19 crisis the National Committees and their farmers’ organizations were playing a strategic role at the national level to gather local information, report and share it with the local authorities, national government and its ministries+: state of the agricultural season, problems related to the shortages of seeds, inputs, difficulties in access to market, to transportation, to information, etc.

They were also fundamental in proposing responses to these and other challenges, in constant dialogue with governments and other stakeholders, emphasising the importance of connecting short-term measures with a strategic vision on how to improve the resilience of local family farming -based on sustainable food systems.

The NCFFs provide platforms for different stakeholders in the country to interact, analyse and discuss the current state of the agriculture and food sector, and to propose and agree on strategies to improve it. In many cases, they contribute to strengthening the role of civil society, especially farmers’ organisations, in the decision-making process, improving the capacity to organise, articulate and build relationships between a wide range of stakeholders.

The enormous potential of NCFFs in the policy dialogue processes should be unleashed to have the appropriate space and to propose debate and agree on public policy frameworks, laws, regulations needed to strengthen family farming and address food systems inequalities.