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More than 1.5 billion smallholders throughout the world depend on forest landscapes to produce food, fuel, timber and non-wood forest products to meet their subsistence needs and generate cash income. Despite the large number of smallholders and the large collective scale of their production, policy makers have overlooked smallholders’ role...
From a small seed, a mighty trunk may grow
31/05/2018
31/05/2018
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Women are the backbone of rural economies, particularly in Africa, but they are much less likely to be involved in the decision-making.
One woman debunking that trend is Charity Kathambi Chepkwony. A forest and farm producer, she is also the first woman elected to Kenya’s parliament for the Njoro Constituency in...
FFF Summary report 2012-2017
02/05/2018
02/05/2018
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Focusing on strengthening forest and farm producer organizations (FFPOs) as the primary agents of change works in practice. That is the most important message following more than four years of experience by the Forest and Farm Facility (FFF), a proven implementing mechanism set up as a partnership between FAO, the...
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16 April 2018, Stockholm — Stronger women’s leadership roles and improved gender equality in forest and farm producer organizations can make a critical contribution to overcoming rural poverty and building community resilience.
Participants at an international panel discussion on gender equality, organized by the Forest Farm Facility (FFF), based at the Food...
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Jeffrey Campbell, Manager of the FAO Forest and Farm Facility, brings to the fore the acute agroecological knowledge that people who have lived in or around forests possess.