Forest and farm smallholders and communities are essential at a global scale for food security, biodiversity conservation and climate-change mitigation. But they are under extreme pressure from a changing climate, political uncertainties and market stresses such as those arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. They need support to organize, pool their knowledge, increase their market power, and influence policies in their favour.
As the pandemic recedes, the war in Ukraine is giving rise to new threats to forest and farm producer organizations and their members, such as increasing prices for food, fertilizers and transportation. Never has it been more important to get money directly into the hands of such organizations for climate, nature and development action.
In this section we present key topics of FFF’s work in the ten core countries and globally to address key challenges forest and farm producers are facing.