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Supporting the contribution of family farmers

Issue brief 7, April 2014

Year of publication 2014

Pages 4p.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Every day all over the world, millions of people rise with the morning sun and head into fields, forests and out to sea to tend the crops, rear the livestock and capture the seafood that end up on the tables of so many in their communities and countries. They are family farmers and the United Nations has declared 2014 the International Year of Family Farming - under the theme Feeding the World, Caring for the Earth - to shine a light on these unsung heroes of the global food production system. F or the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), family farming is understood to include crop, livestock, forestry, fishery and aquaculture producers who use predominantly family labour with the head of the household participating directly in the production process, and where the farm activity is the main source of income for the household, even though supplemental income may come from other non-agricultural activities.

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