Securing land tenure rights for sustainable food systems: The role of smallholder and family farmers

UN Food System Stocktaking Moment
Rome, 24-26 of July 2023

REGISTER

Family Farming presents the most promising prospects for achieving the required transformation, encompassing production systems and food governance in the context of climate change and interconnected crisis. It entails the transition towards more agroecological and resilient practices, ensuring the preservation of biodiversity, efficient management of natural resources, and the capacity to confront climate change while respecting the contexts, cultures, approaches, and constraints of each farmer.

Secure tenure of land is the cornerstone of this transition: meeting the right conditions to invest, protect, and restore their land, accessing credit, improving farming techniques to fight against land degradation, and improving productivity sustainably.

Bringing in the voices of smallholder and family farmers, including pastoralists, organisations, to the UN Food System Stocktaking Moment will shine light to their enormous potential as solution providers. In connection with their long-standing experience in building public policies and in the context of the implementation of the United Nations Decade of Family Farming, they will share the priorities of public policies and actions related to securing land tenure to be included in their national pathways.

As a follow-up, the farmers and pastoralists organizations will continue strengthening multistakeholder dialogue and policy processes to drive the transformation towards more sustainable, resilient, socially and culturally appropriate, and nutrition-sensitive food systems.

OBJECTIVES

This is a 60 minutes virtual session with a “talk show” format, targeting Member States and actors of the land and rural community, smallholders and family farmers, and pastoralists, engaged in the discussion around sustainable food systems, climate change, human rights and land rights, with the following objectives:

• to bring in the voices of smallholder and family farmers, including pastoralists, as critical actors in achieving sustainable food systems;
• to raise awareness about the importance of securing land tenure for sustainable food systems;
• to present the state of legal and policy implementation around land tenure rights in the national pathways;
• to recommend actions to Member-States in order to include public policies related to secure land tenure to family/small-scale farmers in their national pathways. As follow-up actions, the International Land Coalition, through its members will work together with governments to achieve inclusive national pathways.

WHEN: 26^th July, 8h-9h CET

WHERE: Zoom

MODERATOR: Adriano Campolina, Rural Institutions, Services and Empowerment and Land Tenure Team Leader at Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

SPEAKERS

Esther Penunia, Secretary General of the Asian Farmer’s Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA)

Alberto Broch, President of the Confederation of Organizations of Family Producers of the Expanded Mercosur (COPROFAM) *recorded video

Paine Eulalia Makko, Executive Director of the UJAMAA COMMUNITY RESOURCE TEAM (UCRT)

Rikke Grand Olivera, Lead Global Technical Specialist, Land Tenure & Natural Resources Management at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

Laura Lorenzo (closing remarks), Director of the World Rural Forum (WRF)