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Towards stronger family farms
Voices in the International Year of Family Farming
This publication draws from reports and notes from a series of events in the International Year of Family Farming: Regional Dialogues on Family Farming were organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization in collaboration with the World Rural Forum, the International Cooperative Alliance and the World Farmers Organization to increase the understanding of the family farming context in each region,and...
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Journal
Farming Matters: The many faces of resilience
Poverty and vulnerability combine in a vicious circle for many family farmers. To break that and turn it into a virtuous cycle, resilience must be built into farming and the systems in which farmers operate. There is an urgent need for a change in mindset regarding family farming, agriculture and...
Germany - United States of America
2014 - ILEIA, Center for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture
Policy brief/paper
International Young Farmers’ Manifesto
“To make family farming a solution for the future”
While family farmers comprise 40% of the world's active working population, their livelihood is not given due recognition. Its socio-economic and legal recognition at both a national and international level is crucial to achieving world food security and halting the drastic decline in agriculture-related jobs. Such recognition constitutes the basis...
France
2014
Guidelines
Farming with Alternative Pollinators (FAP)
A practical guide for smallholders
Pollinators play a key-role in agriculture, for biodiversity protection, ecosystems and climate change adaptation. But globally rapid decline of wild pollinators threatens mankind; honey bees cannot compensate the losses. Central Asia has been identified as the second most vulnerable area worldwide concerning economic loss in consequence of pollinator loss. But...
Uzbekistan
2014 - ICARDA
Website
Family Farming website
The website about family farmers and their farms, begun in 2014 to show the diversity of family farmers ‘Feeding the World, Caring for the Earth‘ by a collection of first hand experiences (snapshots) as an educational resource for anywhere in the world. The concept of this comes from the International...
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2014 - Family farms.enviroed4all
Guidelines
Aksakals’ guide on Community-based Landscape Restoration (CLR)
A century ago forests covered large foot hill chains in Uzbekistan and provided manifold benefits. Currently, only 7.3% of Uzbekistan is forested. Specifically villages below mountains or lower ranges suffer from mud flows after hails and even slight rains. Climate change will fuel the serisks, e.g. by increase of hails....
Uzbekistan
2014 - ICARDA
Journal article
Family Farming, Sociologia ruralis, Aug. 2014
The United Nationals declared 2014 as the International Year of Family Farming to highlight the importance of family farms and smallholders farmers (International Year of Family Farming - IYFF). Throughout the world family farms constitute the majority of all farms, which underlines their importance for food security. FAO promotes the...
Lithuania - United States of America
2014
Blog article
区域合作社是如何在北部弗里斯兰人林区开创一种 非传统合作方式
每个景观都有一段历史，而每段历史都充满抗争。令人着迷的是，如果奶农没有自发组 织起来，结成区域联盟去挑战政策、法律以及农业生产和自然景观管理的主流观念，今天荷 兰北部弗里斯兰人林区将会完全是另一番景象。农民已经把他们的田地、文化景观和本地传 统掌握到自己手中，这将进一步推动可持续生产体系的发展，增强地区经济。
Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
2014 - Center for Biodiversity and Indigenous Knowledge
Website
Protection of indigenous agricultural products and foodstuffs
Important possibility for small family farmers is protection of their speciffic, indigenous agricultural products so they can obtain better recognition and market position. On this web page potential beneficiaries can find all relevant information about protection and labeling of their products.
Croatia - European Union
2014 - Ministry of agriculture
Newsletter article
Turkish bank’s ad campaign honours family farms
This video advertisement combine dazzling rural images with a nostalgic Turkish song and the Twitter hashtag #senbirakipgitmediye. They are part of a major campaign launched in late November by Sekerbank, targeting small-scale farms with special loan products.
Türkiye
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Video
“New Success Factors” - The organic cave
Documentaries on the Best Practices in Rural Development carried out by young farmers that have been granted support under EU Rural development policies.
2014 - Rete Rurale Nazionale
Journal
Spore: Family farming, the beginning of a renaissance
More than 500 million family farms dominate agriculture around the world ensuring food security and providing employment to hundreds of millions of people. Family farms are also essential in safeguarding agro-biodiversity, and sustaining communities and cultures. However, family farming faces numerous challenges including insecure land rights, and limited access to...
Côte d'Ivoire - Kenya - Samoa - Uganda
2014
Report
Family farming in Europe: challenges and prospects
In-depth analysis
This note discusses the definitions, challenges and future prospects of family farming in the EU. Some challenges, such as market volatility and climate change, are general for all EU farm structures, but some are specific to family farmers: their smallness, lack of power within the food chain, and intergenerational farm succession. However, family farming...
2014 - European Parliament
Fact sheet
Empowering Smallholders and Family Farms in Europe and Central Asia
Smallholder and family farming has come to dominate agriculture in the lower and middle-income countries of Europe and Central Asia as a result of the land reforms implemented in the 1990s. Food security in the region is under threat as many of the small farm units are presently not economically...
2014 - FAO
Statement
Differences between Family Farming and Other Types of Farming in the EU
There are many different combinations such as partnerships (GbR, OHG, KG), registered cooperatives (eG), limited liability companies (GmbH), investment companies, producer groups, purchasing groups, joint management, even cooperatives that concentrate on urban farming and other – with and without family farmers. There are many more differences between the legal basis...
2014
Journal article
Cross Country Analysis of Agriculture and Agricultural Policy of South-eastern European Countries in Comparison with the European Union
Agriculture in the South-eastern European countries (SEEs) is very diverse in terms of natural and structural conditions, development status, and the manifold production potentials. It carries prominent historical and social components and great economic importance to rural development. There are noticeable structural and technological deficiencies. Another significant factor is the...
2014 - FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
Book part
Agriculture and Agricultural Policy in Albania
The future alignment of the Albania’s agriculture and rural development policy with the CAP requires a new vision for policymaking as well as a new approach to the design of policy measures, similar to the transformation carried by the new Member States before accession.
In this context, understanding the diversity and...
Albania
2014 - FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
Case study
Family farming research expertise in Languedoc-Roussillon
World agriculture is overwhelmingly dominated by family farming, which is the leading rural employment source and food provider. The 2014 International Year of Family Farming launched by the United Nations spotlights the importance of this system, providing an opportunity for the Agropolis International scientific community to showcase its high long-standing...
France
2014 - Agropolis international
Book part
Agriculture and Agricultural Policy in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) is characterized by a complex government structure as a result of the General Framework Agreement for BiH, signed in late 1995 in Dayton. Under the agreement, BiH is a state consisting of two entities; namely the Federation of BiH (FBiH) and Republic of Srpska (RS), as...
Bosnia and Herzegovina
2014 - FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
Book part
Agriculture and Agricultural Policy in Croatia
Even though Croatia is a small country (56 594 km2 ), it has very diverse topography; from Mediterranean, through Central European, mountainous and flat, to coastal and continental. It ranks as one of the top five European countries with regard to biodiversity, with some parts being among the richest areas...
Croatia
2014 - FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
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