The International Year of Family Farming (IYFF) is meant to drumbeat the issues of family farmers before policy makers and other stakeholders in the rural development community. But, it is not only that. It is also aimed at bringing back the dignity of farming by recognizing the contribution of family farmers in feeding our country and cooling our earth. It is important for us to put faces to the oftentimes unseen yet valuable members of our society. Thus, this small initiative of AsiaDHRRA and PhilDHRRA to document stories of model family farmers to serve as inspiration to others in the farming and development community. We hope that the gains and challenges shared by the family farmers brings us lessons in our efforts to develop a sustainable smallholder agriculture that will benefit majority of our rural poor. We believe that thousands more of these stories abound. While we are constrained to document as many, we hope that this effort will help us become more mindful and respectful of their contribution and move us to do more and to commit to accompany them and their organizations in their journey as relevant participants in the development of their communities and our country. Let us continue to invest in documenting and sharing family farming experiences for their stories serve as our guide and barometer in policy engagement and programming work. This initiative would not have been possible without the participation of the members of the national CSO Committee for IYFF 2014 in the Philippines,, of partners from the AgriCord agri-agency synergy, and, the support from Fondation de France. We thank everyone for the cooperation and the goodwill amidst the constraints faced in the conduct of the case documentation.