FAO provided the framework for its civil society partners to gather virtually and discuss striking questions of food and agriculture in Europe and Central Asia. The Civil Society Consultation precedes the European Regional Conference and its main conclusions will enrich the Conference’s sessions.

At the consultation, civil society representatives stressed the need to have better cooperation with rural communities and incorporate a bottom-up approach – the voices of the field – in a more strategic way.

Altogether over 40 organizations, big and small, advocating for smallholders, family farming, better nutrition, peasants’ rights, rural development, and many other issues, participated in the three-day event that concludes today.