The Global Dialogue, a two-day event held at FAO headquarters in October 2014, put the spotlight on the consensus reached on the importance of family farming in addressing a number of challenges, from eradicating hunger and poverty to achieving sustainable systems of food production and consumption. This publication synthesizes the main outcomes of the Global Dialogue on Family Farming and captures the variety of views expressed throughout the event. As seen throughout the event, there is great diversity in views and experiences in relation to family farming. While embracing this diversity, the Global Dialogue also revealed the shared resolve and understanding on what needs to be done to ensure family farmers are protagonists in a more sustainable future. The Global Dialogue shed light on how governments, farmers’ organizations and other non-state actors can transfer current global momentum created by the IYFF into concrete action beyond 2014. The voices of family farmers, as heard throughout this publication and throughout the Year, demonstrated that targeted public policies that respond to their specific needs are needed. They must take account of family faming as a way of life and as key to preserving natural resources, in addition to being indispensable for food production and employment.