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Book (stand-alone)Commercialization of smallholder farms in Kosovo 2021
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No results found.Smallholders play an important role in agriculture and in rural areas in the countries in South Europe and Central Asia. Furthermore, the countries are still largely dominated by smallholders. Supporting smallholders is one of four priorities for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Europe and Central Asia. As such, during 2018-2019, FAO REU conducted country studies on the needs and constraints of smallholders in eight countries of the region1. A Regional Synthesis Report was prepared based on these studies. The generic needs, constraints and challenges for smallholders were outlined, and policy recommendations were generated. -
Policy briefFamily farming 2022Guided by the Global Action Plan of the United Nations Decade of Family Farming 2019-2028, this legal brief examines concrete ways that legislation can effectively support policy processes aimed at advancing family farming’s contribution to the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals. Building on Legal Paper 108 “Legislative and Regulatory Frameworks for Family Farming”, it aims to present different legislative and regulatory options to decision-makers to facilitate their appreciation of the complexity of existing frameworks that underpin family farming while favouring the design of supportive approaches best suited to respective national context. With the multisectorality of family farming at its core and mindful of family farmers’ overwhelming contribution to nutritiously and sustainably feed the world, this legal brief discusses legislative and regulatory processes in four interrelated areas – 1) access to resources and opportunities, 2) sustainability and traditions, 3) nutrition and healthy diets; and 4) resilience and socioeconomic services - that are conducive to a sustainable and inclusive agri-food systems transformation for a better production, better environment, better nutrition and better life for all, leaving no one behind.
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Book (stand-alone)Enhancing the potential of family farming for poverty reduction and food security through gender-sensitive rural advisory services 2015
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Rural advisory services (RAS) can play an important role in addressing gender inequalities. However, RAS programmes have often fallen short of expectations to design and implement relevant services to help rural women and men achieve food security and generate more income. This paper is based on an examination of a broad selection of existing literature on gender-sensitive RAS. It looks at gender-differentiated barriers in access to RAS and challenges of effectively targeting women family farmers when delivering these services. Examples of good practices provided are those that have been successful in responding to women farmers’ specific requirements in supporting their economic empowerment. The paper provides recommendations on what can be done to improve the gender-sensitivity of RAS. It offers a reflection on actions needed to ensure that good practices and lessons learnt translate into the design and provision of demand-driven and gender-sensitive RAS for improved food security and poverty reduction.
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