After three years of implementation, the UN Decade of Family Farming 2019-2028 (UNDFF) will host its first Global Forum on 19-22 September 2022. Co-organized by FAO-IFAD, the Forum will leverage the experiences of different actors to take stock of the achievements and challenges faced since launching the UNDFF. Discussions will lead to the identification of priority policies and technical areas that will shape the UNDFF agenda for the next period of implementation, to accelerate the transition to context-specific, diversified, resilient and sustainable agri-food systems, for a better environment and a better life for rural communities.

Objectives of the Forum

1. Exchange good practices, successful processes, experiences and concrete policy solutions for the support of family farming;
2. Highlight the key emerging policy/technical areas, actions and instruments to enable family farmers to achieve diversified, innovative and dynamic farming systems;
3. Scale out and scale up efforts to promote multistakeholder partnerships and cooperation for the promotion, development and effective implementation of policies, strategies and programmes, enabling family farmers to fulfil their transformative potential.

Structure of the Global Forum

• An opening, High-Level session, to focus on the global results from the UNDFF report, on the ongoing global initiatives, such as the Coalition on Family Farming, and strengthening actions in support of the United Nations Decade of Family Farming (CFF);
• 7 Technical sessions related to the 7 pillars of the Global Action Plan of the UNDFF, to focus the discussion on results achieved, main challenges encountered, lessons learned, as well as on emerging priorities;
• A closing session with a regional roundtable to highlight key recommendations, and a discussion on how to include the priorities emerged during the Pillars sessions prior and during the Global Forum, into processes related to the development and implementation of public policies and action frameworks at national level.

Agenda of the Global Forum

19 September

• High-level opening
• Develop an enabling policy environment to strengthen family farming (UNDFF Global Action Plan-GAP Pillar 1)

20 September

• Support youth and ensure the generational sustainability of family farming (GAP Pillar 2);
• Promote gender equity in family farming and the leadership role of rural women (GAP Pillar 3);
• Strengthen family farmers’ organizations and capacities to generate knowledge, represent farmers and provide inclusive services in the urban-rural continuum (GAP Pillar 4)

21 September

• Improve socio-economic inclusion, resilience, and well-being of family farmers, rural households, and communities (GAP Pillar 5);
• Promote sustainability of family farming for climate-resilient food systems (GAP Pillar 6);
• Strengthen the multidimensionality of family farming to promote social innovations contributing to territorial development and food systems that safeguard biodiversity, the environment, and culture (GAP Pillar 7)

22 September

• Closing: Key findings and recommendations for the way forward

The sessions will have simultaneous interpretation in English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese and Russian.

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