Video – Foro Rural Mundial https://www.ruralforum.org/en/ El desarrollo rural y desarrollo sostenible son los objetivos del Foro Rural Mundial. Organización no gubernamental ONG comprometida con el desarrollo sostenible, desarrollo local, y el desarrollo social. Fri, 09 Apr 2021 07:14:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://www.ruralforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/cropped-FRM512-32x32.png Video – Foro Rural Mundial https://www.ruralforum.org/en/ 32 32 AgriCOOPDS is born; new initiative to promote agricultural cooperativism https://www.ruralforum.org/en/agricoopds-is-born-new-initiative-to-promote-agricultural-cooperativism/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=agricoopds-is-born-new-initiative-to-promote-agricultural-cooperativism Tue, 02 Jun 2020 12:15:22 +0000 https://www.ruralforum.org/nace-agricoopds-nueva-iniciativa-para-promover-el-cooperativismo-agrario/ In the face of the global crisis generated by COVID-19, the organization of family farmers into cooperatives (or similar collaborative figures) may be key to meeting the challenges of the future.

The initiative has an important component that targets women and youth in family farming.

​The initiative has been designed in collaboration with a number of organizations, which we would like to publicly thank for their participation: LORRA, KONFEKOOP, CSCE-EKGK, Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias de España, COGECA, Agriterra, ACODEA, Kaiku Cooperativa, Fundación Cándido Iturriaga, Laboral Kutxa, Cajamar, UDAPA S.Coop, ABERE S.Coop and ABELUR S. Coop.

2 June 2020 – The World Rural Forum-WRF launches a new initiative with the aim of promoting agricultural cooperatives and associations, taking advantage of the opportunity offered by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Under the name of AgriCOOPDS, the initiative promotes the agricultural cooperativism, through the dissemination of good practices and clearly showing the contribution of cooperativism to the fulfillment of SDGs, and will seek to create an enabling environment that facilitates the adoption of better public policies.

Cooperativism allows for the pooling of supply and the improvement of prices, thus increasing the income of its members. It improves access to quality services for its members and creates sustainable and quality employment. The organization of the agricultural sector in cooperatives allows the mobilization of more capital and resources and contributes to a greater redistribution of wealth.

For all these reasons, cooperatives are an intrinsically social and sustainable business model that contributes directly to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.

In this regard, the United Nations Decade of Family Farming 2019-2028 (UNDFF) highlights, for example, the importance of the participation of women and men family farmers in cooperatives to improve their negotiating skills and conditions and as a catalyst for a steady supply of products in the market (UNDFF Global Plan of Action, 2019).

The AgriCOOPDS initiative is primarily aimed at agricultural cooperatives themselves, who will have the opportunity to learn about their contribution to SDGs through a web-based survey, which will also show where they can make the greatest effort to increase that contribution.

 

WOMEN AND YOUTH IN THE COOPERATIVE MOVEMENT

The AgriCOOPDS initiative has an important component that targets women and youth, farmers and family farmers affiliated to trade unions or agricultural organisations on all five continents.

In this sense, the initiative aims to increase the incorporation of more women and young people as members of existing cooperatives in their regions, which would strengthen the cooperatives themselves and contribute to improving the quality of life of youth and women in family farming.

 

COOPERATIVES ARE ESSENTIAL TO ACHIEVE THE SDGs

Agricultural cooperatives are directly linked to 69 SDG targets, 41% of the total existing targets.

The contribution of cooperatives to rural development, facilitating the achievement of targets related to inclusive economic development, climate change, hunger or inequality in rural communities, is done through their work in the productive area of the primary sector, but also through the development of the cooperative and collaborative spirit that facilitates the development of more cohesive and resilient societies.

Now more than ever, let us take advantage of, value, support and trust the enormous potential of family farming and agricultural cooperativism to ensure food security and sustainability of the planet. Family farming and its cooperatives today are the key that will prevent food crises of the future.

 

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]]> The WRF wants to give voice to the emergency measures proposed by family farming in the face of the covid-19 crisis https://www.ruralforum.org/en/the-wrf-wants-to-give-voice-to-the-emergency-measures-proposed-by-family-farming-in-the-face-of-the-covid-19-crisis/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-wrf-wants-to-give-voice-to-the-emergency-measures-proposed-by-family-farming-in-the-face-of-the-covid-19-crisis Fri, 03 Apr 2020 15:08:01 +0000 https://www.ruralforum.org/el-frm-quiere-dar-voz-a-las-medidas-de-emergencia-propuestas-por-la-agricultura-familiar-ante-la-crisis-del-covid-19/

April 3, 2020.- The World Rural Forum-WRF calls on family farming organizations, National Committees of Family Farming (CNAF) and other dialogue platforms to collect, share and give voice to the proposals and emergency measures they are requesting or proposing at the national or sub-national level, to ensure that family farming continues to play the role guaranteeing the food safety during this time of crisis caused by COVID-19 and immediately afterward.

Even before the crisis generated by COVID-19, family farming faced enormous challenges in access to land, credit, economic viability, climate change, while 821 million people suffered from food and nutritional insecurity.
Although there are many uncertainties about the evolution and consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, the scenario that is drawn is, in any case, of increasing challenges for family farming.

In addition to the immediate health crisis, there are short, medium and long-term impacts on food systems, and especially on family farmers, who are at the center of these food systems.

Family farmers are acting with enormous responsibility, being the cornerstone in feeding the entire population. At the same time, the crisis is causing serious problems for family farmers due to the breakdown of numerous distribution channels and access to markets, difficulties in getting supplies, increasing fuel prices, etc.

Undoubtedly, this crisis is demonstrating the strategic importance of having, in each of the territories, a solid family farming, the basis of sustainable food systems and the development of rural areas.

In this context, the WRF is collecting emergency proposals/measures that family farmers’ organizations, NCFF and other dialogue platforms are requesting or proposing at the national or sub-national level, in order to share them and give them voice. These proposals can be sent by email to WRFSecretary@ruralforum.org.

#BuyLocal, buy family farming products.

#NowMoreNever support, value and trust family farming.

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Despite the crisis provoked by Covid-19, family farmers and their cooperatives continue producing and ensuring food supply.

It is a strategic sector and, therefore, family farming requires strong public policies and social recognition. 

Buy local, buy family farmers’ products. Let’s support those who feed us.

First, the WRF would like to express its deep condolences to the families who have lost a loved one. We also share our strength and solidarity to those still fighting against the virus.

The unexpected global crisis created by Covid-19 will probably change the way we understand health, work, solidarity, globalization and, ultimately, our lives. This might be the moment to start reflecting on our priorities as a society. Probably, this crisis will grant greater value to the caring for our health and to the need of having solid and universal health systems in our countries. Probably, this crisis will also give higher value to our food and, more specifically, to the need for food to be always available in our streets, markets, shops and supermarkets. Hopefully, we will all finally understand food exists, above all, due to the effort of 2.500 million family farmers working every day in difficult contexts, with few social recognition and absolutely insufficient public policies. Hopefully we will all understand family farming is a fundamentally strategic sector for the subsistence and development of every country on earth.

According to FAO statistics (FAO, 2014) globally there are 570 million farms of which 500 million are family operations, that is to say that they employ from, and are managed by, the family. Two and a half billion people pursue this activity which produces 80 percent of the world’s food in terms of value (FAO, 2014). Remember this each time that you are in front of the supermarket shelf or a restaurant menu. Our individual and collective action can also be a powerful instrument of change.

Family farming is more than an agrarian economic model given that it can be considered the foundation of sustainable food production, a pillar of environmentally sensitive land management, caretaker of the world’s biodiversity and a development creator for rural areas.

The United Nations General Assembly, aware of the strategic importance of Family Farming, declared the Decade of Family Farming 2019-2028 (resolution A/RES/72/239). The Decade aims to improve the quality of life of family farmers in all five continents, promoting the implementation of public policies and accelerating the fulfillment of Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development and its SDGs. The promotion of agri-coops will also be needed to ensure a better future to our food producers. Let’s value, support and trust the great potential of family farming to sustain our food supply and boost sustainability of our planet.

Family Farming; feeding the world, caring for the earth

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