Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum)

Re: Voluntary guidance tool for the sustainable enhancement of small-scale livestock productivity – Need, scope, nature, and development process

International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty - MENA region

The objectives of the process should also consider a first phase of collecting existing practices of small-scale food producers in the livestock sector. Not only the practices, but also the already existing policies that protect the work of small-scale livestock or differentiate the small-scale livestock from the industrial model. This would help in highlighting the needs and gaps to be filled with the guidelines.

 

It is important that the guidelines focus on the small-scale food producers and not on all farmers. The scales are fundamental to be applied in this kind of global tools. We are suffering from the agro industry proposing always the same phytosanitary rules to our scale, and those rules cannot be afforded.