As Phase I of the Forest and Farm Facility partnership closes, Duncan Macqueen reflects on its impressive achievements and the role that the mass mobilisation of forest and farm producers has played in its success. The Forest and Farm Facility (FFF) met in February, in an unusually snow-clad Rome, to plan...

In this video interview Vu Le Y Voan, Vice Director of the International Cooperation Department of the Viet Nam National Farmers Union (VNFU), explains how market and analysis development training supported by the Forest and Farm Facility has empowered small-scale forest and farm producers. Such training at grassroots level helps...

Forest business incubation is a support process that accelerates the successful development of sustainable businesses in forest landscapes. While more than 7,000 business incubators exist worldwide, few serve forest landscapes. Low densities of educated entrepreneurs, high logistical costs, scarce infrastructure to distant markets, and few capable business mentors present major...

Vu Le Y Voan is Vice Director of the International Cooperation Department of the Viet Nam National Farmers Union (VNFU) and Facilitator of the Forest and Farm Facility programme in Viet Nam. In this video interview she explains how small-scale forest and farm producers can contribute to halting deforestation and...

27 February 2018, Rome - FAO and AgriCord, a global alliance of agri-agencies mandated by farmers' organizations, are joining efforts to facilitate the engagement of family and smallholder farmers in decision making and policy dialogue, increase their institutional and organizational capacities and improve their access to markets and finance. Doing so will...