Global hunger and malnutrition are rising. To feed the world in a healthy and sustainable way, an urgent and radical shift in our food systems is necessary, and family farmers must be a part of the solution. Family farming is the foundation of food security and improved nutrition and is key to deliver food systems that produce enough healthy food, that bring economic benefits and development to rural people and territories, and that ensure economic and physical access to adequate food for all, especially for vulnerable groups, all while safeguarding biodiversity and the environment. The global Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic highlighted weaknesses, gaps and inequalities in food systems, the urgent need for systemic efforts in their transformation, and the crucial role that family farmers play in eradicating hunger and shaping our future of food. As promoted by the United Nations Decade of Family Farming 2019-2028 (UNDFF), there is an urgent need to innovate, formulate and reform policy and legal frameworks to support the multi-dimensionality of family farming, including a wide range of issues such as gender equality, youth, climate change, resilience, digitalization, nutrition, agroecology, and territorial development, to name just a few. In this regard, the UNDFF serves as a framework for countries to develop affirmative public policies and investments to support family farming and devotes special attention to the establishment of an enabling policy environment to strengthen it. Laws and regulations are essential to ensure this enabling environment. Therefore, the Global Action Plan (GAP) for the UNDFF clearly states that governments need to develop and improve context-specific legal and institutional frameworks to better tailor, prioritize and target interventions and investments for the support of family farming (FAO and IFAD, 2019a).