Togo’s expanding populations need both food and means of generating income. After a recent visit, Duncan Macqueen reflects on how multi-tiered self-organisation is supporting sustainable solutions among tapioca producers.

Forest and farm producer organizations (FFPOs) are providing immediate emergency responses and offering grounded solutions for resilience in building back better secure landscape-based production systems The FFF is helping FFPOs in documenting best practices and facilitating the implementation of locally adapted measures.

Biodiversity – forest and farm producers are critical agents for a healthy planet. Today is 2020 International Day of the Forest and for that matter, the Ghana Federation of Forest and Farm Producers (GhaFFaP) acknowledges the central role of the forest in ensuring sustainable biodiversity for all forms of live on ...

This article analyses how locally-controlled forestry (LCF) enterprises contribute to a broad notion of prosperity as ‘that which people value and have reason to value in line with the common good’.

The Forest and Farm Facility participated in the resource partner consultation of the Flexible Multi-Partner Mechanism (FMM) held in FAO HQ on Friday 29 November 2019. In the context of the UN reform, where flexible and less earmarked funding is encouraged by the new Funding Compact, the FMM becomes a ...

With their ability to mobilise 1.5 billion smallholder producers, forest and farm producer organisations (FFPOs) can help drive a paradigm shift away from large-scale monocultural systems, which are vulnerable to climate change and highly inequitable. FFPO businesses embody greater diversity and equity, pursuing market opportunities for a diverse basket of ...

As global leaders embrace natural climate solutions at the UN Climate Summit in New York, IIED’s research shows how to tap the potential of nature-based solutions in tackling the impacts of climate change. Read the blog written by Xiaoting Hou Jones and Hannah Reid, IIED.

El concepto de cadenas de valor para la "canasta de productos" da un giro al enfoque predominante del análisis y desarrollo de la cadena de valor y busca reconocer la realidad de la mayoría de los sistemas agroalimentarios tradicionales. La mayoría de los enfoques actuales de la cadena de valor ...

As in many African countries, Madagascar’s forests are under increasing pressure from agricultural expansion as growing populations seek to produce more food in an increasingly erratic climate. After a recent visit to the country, Duncan Macqueen reflects on how agroforestry could be a key part of a response.  Madagascar’s expanding population ...

Follow on twitter the dialogues at the stand: #ThinkTwice, #EDD19, #TomorrowsCoffee, #NextGenerationCoffee, #ForestFarmFacility. The generational and gender inequality poses sustainability issues in the coffee sector, where the predominantly male  sectors’ farmers are rapidly aging. As for now, the sectors production capacity is stretched to its limit to satisfy the growing demand ...