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Book (stand-alone)Study on small-scale family farming in the Near East and North Africa region. Synthesis 2017This 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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DocumentThe Outcomes of the International Year of Family Farming 2014 (IYFF) 2014. Annex 1 2015The IYFF-2014 has reached the global aim to raise the profile and awareness on the important contribution that Family Farming can play in providing food security and nutrition and eradicating poverty in the attainment of the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals.
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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetBetter marketing opportunities for family farming and small-scale agriculture firms
Costa Rica’s Institutional Food Supply Program, a public initiative to promote local food production systems
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In response to a request from the country’s authorities, the Country Office en Costa Rica of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAOCR) has contributed to improving and strengthening the marketing services provided by the State to small and medium-scale farmers in Costa Rica. In particular, FAOCR has focused on the services provided to farmers by the National Production Council (CNP), an institution under the stewardship of the Minister of Agriculture and Livestock. It is in this context that FAO has supported, among other initiatives, the improvement of the Institutional Food Supply Program (PAI, acronym in Spanish), administered by the CNP. The PAI is responsible for supplying public entities with food products of agricultural, agro-industrial, aquaculture and fishing origin. Since 2008, public entities have been obliged to source food products through the PAI, which, in turn, must be supplied with national products from small and medium-scale producers. Through the improvement of marketing services and the institutional capacities of the CNP, currently chaired by the head of the Regional Network of Public Food Supply and Marketing Systems (SPAA), FAO has helped to strengthen the PAI, which has tripled its sales in the last six years. Today, the PAI generates nearly 24 000 jobs, partners with 273 agribusinesses that supply raw materials for food processing and has sales totalling USD 112.1 million, accounting for 41 percent of the country’s public food purchases.
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