The International Year of Family Farming represented a historical recognition of the actual and potential contribution of close to 40 per cent of the worlds—and a majority of the developing worlds—population, to poverty eradication, food and nutrition security, as well as to the sustainable management of natural resources. These relate directly to the three dimensions of sustainable development—economic, social and environmental—enshrined in the United Nations Conference for Sustainable Development (UNCSD) — Rio+20 outcome document, ‘The Future We Want’, which form the conceptual pillars of the recently adopted SDGs.