Following interactions with the regional office of FAO, proposition was made to work with El Salvador considering a rich data base and a strong policy interest on family farming. Various meetings were organized with FAO office in El Salvador FAO as well as with IFAD country program manager of El...

After a first mission in Tunisia, WAW Secretariat has achieved an exploratory mission in Senegal (2-7 march 2015) following an official request from the Ministry in charge of Agriculture (MAER, ministère de l’Agriculture et de l’équipement rural), in order to define how Senegal could strengthen its capacity to better define...

Following the IYFF 2014 and an initial workshop organized by WAW and partners during the 10th symposium of the International Farming System Association, this special issue highlights some threats and opportunities of family farming in a context of agricultural transformations.  After an editorial, a general review of transformations process is...

With the aim of targeting policies towards smallholders, Tunisia has recently joined the WAW network and inter-regional collaboration will be facilitated by a newly approved TCP.  This TCP aims to reinforce national capacities to better analyze the diversity of agricultural holdings within the country, feeding into more targeted policy and...

INRA and CIRAD produced an updated report proposing a characterization of the French agricultural holdings based on data coming from the censuses 2000 and 2010.  A comparison is initiated and leads to trends of transformations achieved during these last 10 years in France. The report builds on the outcomes of the...