The UNDFF Global Action Plan-built upon a wide consensus, provides a series of comprehensive actions, from the global, regional to the local levels, to address the challenges and opportunities of family farming.
The Global Conference on Family Farming and Food Systems seeked to scale up the implementation of the UNDFF 2019-2028 towards more sustainable, resilient, inclusive, and viable food systems, contributing directly to the achievement of the SDGs.
Welcome & Introduction
The Global Conference on Family Farming and Food Systems seeked to scale up the implementation of the UNDFF 2019-2028 towards more sustainable, resilient, inclusive, and viable food systems, contributing directly to the achievement of the SDGs.
More than 300 representatives of governments, family farming organizations, regional platforms, research centers and National Family Farming Committees, international institutions (such as the EU, FAO, IFAD) and development agencies from five continents are invited to participate in the conference.
The World Rural Forum has organized several Global Conferences over the past 20 years, having held the VI GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON FAMILY FARMING: A Decade to Improve the Lives of Family Farmers from March 25-29, 2019 and the Vth entitled LET’S BUILD THE FUTURE: Family Farming, held in 2015, which marked the path towards the implementation of the successful IYFF+10, an initiative that has resulted in the adoption of the Decade for Family Farming 2019-2028.
23/11 Global institutional opening
- Mr. Martin Uriarte, President of the WRF
- Mr. Willem Olthof, Deputy Head of Unit for Sustainable Agri-Food Systems and Fisheries, European Commission - DG INTPA
- Ms. Isabel Bombal, Director General of Rural Development, Innovation and Agri-Food Training, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food of Spain
- Mr. Renato Alvarado, Minister of Agriculture and Livestock of the Government of Costa Rica (video)
- Mr. Anani Kodjogan Kpadenou, Director of plant sectors in the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Rural Development of Togo
- Ms. Esther Penunia, Asian Farmers Association General Secretary
23/11 Rural youth
This session co-organized by IFAD and the WRF provided youth with a space where they can express their proposals in terms of Public Policies and programs that can help them address the challenges that threaten the Family Farming generational renewal. The young farmers might position themselves on how the UNDFF should be exploited to promote more effectively their own policy proposals at the global level and in specific countries in Latin America, Asia and Africa.Welcome & Introduction
- Ms. Sylvie Guillaud, Regional Coordinator for Africa, WRF
- Mr. Yoro Thioye, Agricultural Policy Advisor, CNCR, Senegal
- Ms. Elizabeth Ssendiwala, Senior Technical Specialist on Rural Institutions for the Asia and the Pacific Region, IFAD
- Ms. Anna Korzenszky, Family Farming Consultant, Partnerships and UN Collaboration 3 Division, FAO
- Mr. Afantchawo Koudasse, ROPPA, West Africa
- Ms. Evaline Aiya, ESAFF, East Africa
- Mr. Jumer Marcaida, PAKISAMA-PAMANAKA and AFA, Asia
- Ms. Melina Rodríguez, COPROFAM and CNFR, South America
- Ms. Sandrine Tsogo, PROPAC, Central Africa
24/11 Strengthening family farming as a pathway to sustainable food systems transformation
- Mr. Dominik Ziller, Vice-President of International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
- Ms. Beth Bechdol, Deputy Director-General Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
- Mr. Zainal Arifin Fuad, International Coordination Committee member of LVC
- Mr. Sok Sotha, Miembro de la Junta Directiva de la Organización Mundial de los Agricultores (WFO-OMA)
24/11 Promoting inclusive value chains and market access for family farmers
This panel discussed proposals for market access and the creation and distribution of greater value for family farming production, ensuring family farming’s leadership in the shift towards more sustainable, resilient, inclusive and viable food systems
Panel 2: Promoting inclusive value chains and market access for family farmers- Experience about partnership between farmers and private sector in Senegal. Presented by Mr. Pierre Ndiaye, CEO of the Senegalese SME Mamelles Jaboot.
- Experience from Bolivia about mobile markets during pandemic period and beyond
- Mr. Rene Genaro Rojas Velasco, President of CIOEC Bolivia
- Experience about generation of added value in the cacao production from Indonesian farmers. Presented by Ms. Dyah Aryani, Ngudi Mulyo Farmers Union.
Comments & Conclusions
- Mr. Regis Méritan, Head of Agriculture Growth Sector at Sustainable Agri-Food systems and Fisheries Unit, European Commission – DG INTPA
- Mr. Hakim Balinaire, President of ESAF
25/11 Public policies to increase the participation of family farming in the food systems
This panel discussed the generation of enabling policy environments (legal and institutional frameworks, political commitments, etc.), which ensure family farming leadership in the shift towards sustainable, resilient, inclusive and viable food systems. A key element to ensure that challenges and opportunities are well identified is to increase the participation of family farmers in decision-making processes. National Action Plans for the Decade and family farming laws and regulations will be outlined.
Ep. 2: Public policies to increase the participation of Family Farming in the Food systems- Mr. Alberto Broch, President of COPROFAM and Vice-President of the WRF
- Mr. Lautaro Viscay, REAF-Mercosur Technical Secretary
- Mr. Pierre Ferrand, Senior Agriculture Officer, FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
- Mr. Conrad Rein, Responsible for policy issues European Commission (DG INTPA)
- Ms. Fanny Grandval, Senior Regional Technical Specialist, IFAD
25/11 Land tenure rights
This session, co-organised by the ILC and the WRF, will provide a space to understand the inequalities around the access to land and the impact it has on family farming; and to show the potential of National Plans to address land inequality in favour of family farming.
- State of Play: Land Inequality report - Mr. Ward Anseeuw, Senior Technical Specialist Knowledge, Learning and Innovation, International Land Coalition
- Mr. Aleksandr Temirbekov, NUWUA – National Civil Society Committee on Family Farming of Kyrgyzstan
- Mr. Esteban Daza, IEE – National Committee for Peasant Family Farming
- Mr. Adriano Campolina, Representative FAOFR
26/11 HIGH LEVEL PANEL: SCALING UP THE UN DECADE OF FAMILY FARMING
Emerging opportunities for the success of the Decade of Family Farming. Introduction to the Family Farming Coalition- Ms. Pilar Cancela Rodríguez, Secretary of State for International Cooperation of the Government of Spain
- Mr. Mario Arvelo, Ambassador of the Dominican Republic to the Rome-based UN Agencies
- Ms. Josyline C. Javelosa, Ph.D., Agriculture Attaché and Deputy Permanent Representative of the Philippines to the Rome-based International Organisations
- Ms. Esther Penunia, Secretary General of AFA
- M. Nathanael Buka Mupungu, President of PAFO (Organisation Panafricaine des Producteurs Agricoles) and PROPAC (Plateforme Régionale des Organisations Paysannes d’Afrique Centrale)
- Ms. Laura Pacheco Ovares, Vice-Minister of Agriculture and Food of Costa Rica
- Mr. Gabriel Ferrero, Ambassador-at-Large for Global Food Security at Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, Spain, and Chairman of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS)
26/11 Communication activities
- Mario Acunzo, FAO – Regional Initiatives & UNDFF Participatory Communication Plans
- Phouttasinh Phimmachanch, AFA – ComDev Asia: Enhancing communication capacities of family farmers
- Mateus Costa Santos, LVC – Yenkasa Africa: Giving voice to African farmers.
- Laura Ramirez, READCAF Costa Rica – Onda Rural: Estrategia CpD para el PNAF
- Namita Sing, Digital Green – Promoting Rural Communication Services for Family Farming
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