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Small Family Farms

Agricultural Development Economics Thematic Brief










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    A comparative analysis of the Global Action Plan of the United Nations Decade on Family Farming 2019–2028 and the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-ScaleFisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication 2024
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    This publication aims to directly contribute to the development of an enabling policy environment to innovate, formulate and reform policy and legal frameworks to support the multidimensionality of small-scale aquatic food producers. The comparative analysis identifies how the recommendations of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication could be implemented when informed by the indicative actions presented in the United Nations Decade of Family Farming 2019–2028 Global Action Plan, as well as thematic areas where one instrument can complement the other.
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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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