How to Influence better policies for FFPOs
How to unite your voices to secure land rights and win fairer laws for your community. Empower local producers to lead the policy changes that protect their future.
Featured publications
How good governance has transformed an agroforestry cooperative in Vietnam into a thriving business (2024)
Shows how improved governance structures boosted transparency, trust, and business success in a Vietnamese cooperative.
Advancing internal governance within an association of sustainable cocoa producers in Ghana (2024)
Explains strategies for strengthening governance systems to improve participation and sustainability in Ghana.
Enhancing internal governance within a national federation of community forestry users in Nepal (2024)
Focuses on democratic structures, conflict resolution, and inclusive leadership for FFPOs in Nepal.
How to convene cross sector platforms (Gambia, Guatemala, Liberia, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicaragua).
Content highlights
- Forest and Farm Producer Organisations: Operating Systems for the SDGs (2016)
It explains how FFPOs underpin multiple SDGs through locally led action. - Advancing agrobiodiversity: why organisations of smallholders and Indigenous Peoples are vital (2024)
Advocacy framing for biodiversity, climate resilience, and food systems. - The Forest and Farm Facility (FFF) approach: delivering climate‑resilient landscapes and improved livelihoods (2022)
Evidence base for scaling FFPO support. - Strong governance makes smallholder farmer organisations vital partners (2024)
Highlights why robust governance is key for FFPOs to become credible development partners.
- Engaging FFPOs for impact at scale: protocol for Dryland Sustainable Landscapes IP (2024) Practical guidance for country teams on inclusive FFPO engagement.
- Increasing private sector involvement and investment in forestry in Nepal (2016)
Policy brief on enabling environment reforms. - Forest and farm producers working together to improve policy and secure tenure (2016)
Case highlights on tenure and policy processes. - Stronger forest and farm producer groups can reduce poverty in the Gambia (2013)
National policy pathways for FFPOs.
- Multi sectoral platforms for planning and implementation (2014)
How to convene cross sector platforms (Gambia, Guatemala, Liberia, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicaragua). - The Forest and Farm Facility: building strength in numbers (2014)
Pathways for cross sector collaboration and scaling. - Forest and Farm Producer Organisations: Operating Systems for the SDGs (2016)
Cross sector SDG alignment lens for FFPOs.
Tools and training
Roadmap for strengthening Forest and Farm Producer Organizations (2014)
Policy-oriented tool for improving governance structures and partnerships.
Engaging FFPOs for impact at scale: proposed protocol for engaging FFPOs in Dryland Sustainable Impact Program (2024)Provides a protocol for inclusive engagement of FFPOs in large-scale dryland restoration programs.
Forest and Farm Producer Organisations: Operating Systems for the SDGs (2016)
Strategic guide for aligning FFPO actions with global policy goals.