This story presents the experiences and voices of family farmers leading the waytowards greater sustainability in agrifood systems through a blend of traditionalknowledge and innovation. The story itself showcases how family farmers areconserving and restoring biodiversity, adapting to climate change, and/or sustainablymanaging natural resources.This story was selected from 273 stories received from 68 countries around theworld through an open call held in 2025, entitled “Global Call for Stories: Familyfarmers at the heart of climate-resilient and sustainable agrifood systems” led by theFAO Family Farming Knowledge Platform (FFKP), the FAO Family FarmingEngagement, Parliamentary Networks and ComDev Initiatives Unit and a coalition ofAllies.The call was part of the United Nations Decade of Family Farming 2019-2028(UNDFF), which aims to shed new light on what it means to be a family farmer in arapidly changing world and highlights more than ever before the important role theyplay in eradicating hunger and shaping our future of food, through the FamilyFarming Knowledge Platform.