The Asia-Pacific Regional Dialogue preparing the International Year of Family Farming (IYFF), was organized in Bangkok, on the  21st and 22nd of November 2013. This regional dialogue aimed at gathering different regional actors to identify and discuss of family farming challenges, opportunities for agricultural investment, and policy priorities to achieve food and nutrition security in the Region.

Damien Jourdain (a CIRAD Researcher based in the Asian Institute of Technology AIT, Bangkok) attended to the different sessions of this Meeting. He underlined that the event gathered together an important panel of farming organizations from Asia and Pacific, as well as government representatives. The debate focused, among other things, on the characteristics of family farming and its diversity, the role & contribution of women, and sustainable development. Case studies and examples of supporting policies – such as in Indonesia – were developed.