The Agribusiness Support Fund (ASF), in partnership with the FPCCI Central Standing Committee on Agriculture, organized the “Seminar on National Consultation on Climate Action and Family Farming in Pakistan” on 12 September 2025 at FPCCI Capital Office, Islamabad, Pakistan. The seminar, conducted with support from the APFP-FO4A program, was attended by stakeholders from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, […]
? Rural women and family farmers are the protagonists of our food system but still face structural barriers. On the occasion of International Women’s Day, the Rural Women in Action Network launches the campaign “Rural Women in Action: Building a Sustainable Future,” aiming to highlight their key role in transforming food systems, environmental sustainability, and […]
As part of the UN Decade of Family Farming, the Voices for Change video series highlights perspectives from key actors in family farming. Watch how the FFF is linking forestry and farming and supporting family farmers’ organizations through insights from Esther Penunia (Asian Farmers’ Association), Ross Hilton (UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office), Zhimin Wu […]
Family Farmers’ Review of the First 5 Years and the Path Towards Sustainable and Resilient Food Systems Assessment of the First Five Years and Recommendations for the Second Half of the United Nations Decade of Family Farming 2019-2028 (UNDFF) This document underscores the significance of the UNDFF as a unique tool for supporting family farmers […]
Fostering the engagement of smallholder farmers and fishers in the policy processes and program development within the context of UNDFF: The Case of ARDKPP in the Philippines Irish P. Baguilat, AFA, Honey Bermudez Tabiola, UPCIDS-AltDev, and Raul Socrates Banzuela, PAKISAMA This abridged version of the case study was produced through the partnership of the Asian […]
This article is originally posted by the World Rural Forum (WRF). The final declaration of the Conference “Sowing Sustainability: Scaling up the Vital Contribution of Family Farming“, calls for ” greater joint efforts to overcome daunting challenges faced by the sector”. Vitoria-Gasteiz, March 21, 2024. The VIII Global Conference on Family Farming: ” Sustainability of […]
The Conference, which takes place halfway through the implementation period of the United Nations Decade of Family Farming (UNDFF 2019-2028), will convene nearly 200 distinguished participants from over 55 countries to discuss the varied, complex, and interconnected challenges faced by family farming worldwide, coupled with proposals to ensure the sustainability —economic, social, and environmental— of […]
The $250,000 World Food Prize, considered by many the Nobel Prize of food and agriculture, was awarded today to an Indian scientist credited with launching a "blue revolution" (a rapid increase in fish production) in the developing world.
Modadugu Gupta has spent 30 years creating a cheap and ecologically sustainable system of small-scale fish-farming using abandoned ditches and seasonally flooded fields and water holes smaller than the average swimming pool.
