United Nations Decade of Family Farming and Peasants’ Rights in Times of crisis

This side event aims to discuss the solutions that the United Nations Decade of Family Farming brings for food security in times of crisis and the necessity of elevating human rights in rural areas and across the food and farming sector.

The side event is organized by the Nyéléni Food Sovereignty Network in Europe and Central Asia, a political and social alliance of grassroots, community-based movements and organizations representing small-scale food producers (including pastoralists and fishers), indigenous peoples, agriculture and food workers, consumers, non-governmental organizations and academics.

The key objective of this side event is to demonstrate the interrelatedness of these topics, particularly in times of crisis, in the framework of the United Nations Decade of Family Farming (UNDFF). Additional goals are to highlight the solutions provided by the human rights approach based on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP) and to emphasize the importance of agroecology.