Profil des membres
Mme Heather Elaydi
Organisation:
Housing and Land Rights Network
Pays:
Égypte
Domaine(s) de spécialisation
Mme Heather Elaydi
In 2017 the FAO published a Study on Small-scale Family Farming (SSFF) in the Near East and North Africa (NENA) Region. The study states that its outcomes are intended as policy guidance to enhance SSFF technical and social efficiency of SSFF and to adopt environmentally friendly practices. In addition to the overarching regional study, FAO has published six additional SSFF country case studies from Egypt, Lebanon, Mauritania, Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia.
Civil society organizations (CSOs) welcomed this study as the first of its kind by FAO on small-scale family farming across the NENA region. One noted feature of the SSFF study is its commitment to security of tenure of land for small-scale farmers, which CSOs encourage as a consistent feature of FAO policy and practice going forward.
In 2019 Habitat International Coalition—Housing and Land Rights Network (HIC-HLRN) undertook an analysis of the study, outlining key issues and values at stake, and identifying a number of points of concern. We take this opportunity to highlight those concerns, which we hope will be addressed in the forthcoming UNDFF Regional Action Plan:
While we are happy to see that the 8-page pamphlet on the NENA Regional Initiative on Small-Scale Family Farming and the SDGs and the Global Action Plan on the UN Decade of Family Farming do include significant reference to human rights, SDGs and agroecology, we take this opportunity to remind the FAO of our concerns with the most comprehensive NENA publications on SSFF to date. We hope these concerns will be taken into account in the development of the UNDFF Regional Action Plan.