The International Year of Family Farming: IFAD’s commitment and call for action
The United Nations declared 2014 the International Year of Family Farming (IYFF) to recognize the importance of family farming in reducing poverty and improving global food security. The IYFF aims to promote new development policies, particularly at the national but also regional levels, that will help smallholder and family farmers eradicate hunger, reduce rural poverty and continue to play a major role in global food security through small-scale, sustainable agricultural production.
Organization: International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Year: 2014
Type: Fact sheet
Full text available at: https://www.ifad.org/documents/10180/5fe2f0d8-4b43-4598-8b7b-429ee24b6635
Content language: English