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Prosperous and inclusive rural societies

Despite the enormous natural potential of the region, half of the rural inhabitants live in poverty and 20 percent in extreme poverty. This context imposes a double challenge: to continue the region's progress in reducing poverty and hunger, addressing the ethnic, economic, social, territorial and gender inequalities that still mark the rural societies of the region, while also implementing broader rural development agendas, which can lead to an inclusive growth dynamic for all actors.

• Providing technical assistance for the design, implementation and evaluation of rural development policies, promoting the development of political dialogue and technical exchanges.
• Supporting the countries of the region in building economic development strategies aimed at increasing productivity, social inclusion and sustainability.
• Contributing to strategic cooperation between the social, productive and environmental Sectors.
• Making available its technical resources, tools and standards developed and validated Internationally.
• Providing technical assistance to countries to develop rural development policies adapted to the needs of each population group, and in the implementation of a rights-based approach at the programmatic level, especially in the case of women, rural youth, indigenous peoples and Afro-descendants.
• Supporting the countries of the region in the political, social, organizational and technical strengthening of family farming and artisanal fishing organizations, and related public institutional frameworks; making them visible.

• Meeting of family farming in the SICA region
• Impacts, challenges and strategies against COVID-19 in Family Farming
• Launch of the United Nations Decade of Family Farming in Peru 2019-2028

• Covid-19 crisis in Chile gives prominence to family farming
  By Luiz Beduschi
• The pandemic has led us to rethink food production
  By Mauricio Mireles
• Rural, indigenous and Afro-descendant women are the key to articulating social protection policies with economic inclusion
  Carolina Trivelli interview

• Public purchases from family farming in Colombia and Brazil is the subject of a virtual seminar (spanish only)

• FAO: the pandemic opens the opportunity to rebuild by transforming the agri-food systems of Latin America and the Caribbean (spanish only)
• FAO member states approved 3 new priorities for Latin America and the Caribbean (spanish only)

Family Farming Knowledge Platform

The Family Farming Knowledge Platform gathers digitized quality information on family farming from all over the world; including national laws and regulations, public policies, best practices, relevant data and statistics, researches, articles and publications.

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