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Sustainable Agricultural Productivity Growth and Bridging the Gap for Small-Family Farms

Interagency Report to the Mexican G20 Presidency









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    Price Volatility in Food and Agricultural Markets: A policy response 2011
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    Under the Food Security pillar of the Seoul Multi-year Action Plan on Development, the G20 “request that FAO, IFAD, IMF, OECD, UNCTAD, WFP, the World Bank and the WTO work with key stakeholders to develop options for G20 consideration on how to better mitigate and manage the risks associated with the price volatility of food and other agriculture commodities, without distorting market behaviour, ultimately to protect the most vulnerable”. This report has been prepared by FAO, IFAD, IMF, OECD, UN CTAD,WFP, the World Bank, the WTO, IFPRI and the UN HLTF. The approach taken in this report reflects the view of the collaborating international organisations that price volatility and its effects on food security is a complex issue with many dimensions, agricultural and non-agricultural, short and long-term, with highly differentiated impacts on consumers and producers in developed and developing countries. The report begins with a discussion of volatility and of the ways in which volatility af fects countries, businesses, consumers and farmers.
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    Support to family farming and small scale agriculture as a strategy to achieve rural poverty reduction:Support to family farming and small scale agriculture as a strategy to achieve rural poverty reduction 2016
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    The goals of poverty eradication and of promoting sustainable patterns of consumption and production constitute the overarching framework and the rationale of the new global development agenda. In this context, FAO restates its commitment to achieving these goals, while sustaining the legacy of the International Year of Family Farming, through its strategic goal of reducing rural poverty in support to of family farmers and smallholder agriculture. As part of the strategy, it is fundamental to re cognize global and regional structural transformations and related policy trends in the field of family farming, as well as partnerships with key players influencing regional and national processes. The workshop “Support to Family farming and small scale agriculture to achieve rural poverty reduction. Opportunities and priorities to Strengthen FAO Regional Initiatives” will focus on assessing the trends in family farming and debating the strategy and achievements of the three FAO Regional Initia tives (RIs) related to family farming and smallholders. It will assess the impacts and gaps in FAO’s assistance to countries, identifying areas of focus to scale up the work at the policy level and promote the collaboration across regions to improve results.
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    Study on small-scale family farming in the Near East and North Africa region. Synthesis 2017
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    This report provides an overview of a study conducted in the NENA region in 2015-2016 in partnership with FAO, CIRAD, CIHEAM-IAMM and six national teams, each of which prepared a national report. In the six countries under review in the NENA region (Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Mauritania, Sudan and Tunisia), agriculture is carried out primarily by small-scale family farmers, the majority of whom run the risk of falling into the poverty trap, largely due to the continuous fragmentation of inherited landholdings. As such, the development of small-scale family farming can no longer be based solely on intensifying agriculture, as the farmers are not able to produce sufficient marketable surplus due to the limited size of their landholdings. An approach based strictly on agricultural activity is also insufficient (as small-scale family farms have already diversified their livelihoods with off-farm activities). In fact, developing small-scale farming cannot be achieved by focusing strictly on t he dimension of production.

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