To commemorate the International Year of Family Farming, the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF), Chennai and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nation (FAO) Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, organised an Asia-Pacific Regional Consultation at Chennai in August 2014. Several background papers were prepared for discussion at the conference. The present publication brings together these background papers, which are rich in data and content on issues relating to family farming. Family farming has multiple advantages. It provides opportunities for year-round employment to all members of the family. It provides food security for the family. In recent years, MSSRF has been engaged in converting family farms into nutri-farms by introducing biofortified crops—crops which are rich in specific micro-nutrients like vitamin A-rich sweet potato and quality protein maize—in the farming system. In addition to strengthening household food, nutrition and livelihood security, family farming helps to conserve agro-biodiversity. Unlike corporate farming based on mono-crops, family farming promotes the cultivation of a wide range of crop varieties. Seed production and storage also become a part of family farming culture. Thus, in the interest of sustainable agriculture, it is important that our heritage in family farming is not only preserved but is enriched through the introduction of new technologies. The papers in this book bring out clearly the role family farming has so far played in the evolution of agriculture. They also highlight gender roles in family farming and methods of mainstreaming nutrition in the design of family farming. Further, they indicate approaches to achieve an ever-green revolution, which can help to increase productivity in perpetuity without ecological harm.