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  • Publication | 2019

The Global Action Plan of the UN Decade of Family Farming 2019-2022

Global Food and Nutrition Security

Highlights:

The Decade of Family Farming provides an extraordinary opportunity for the United Nations to achieve its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in an inclusive, collaborative and coherent way.

Putting family farming and all family-based production models at the focus of interventions for a period of ten years, will contribute to a world free of hunger and poverty, where natural resources are managed sustainably, and where no one is left behind–corresponding to the top commitments of the 2030 Agenda. Family farmers are acknowledged as holding unique potential to become key agents of development strategies. The report highlights that family farming is the predominant form of food and agricultural production in both developed and developing countries, producing over 80 percent of the world’s food in value terms.

UNDFF serves as a framework for countries to develop public policies and investments to support family farming and contribute to the achievement of the United Nations’ SDGs. It will address family farming from a holistic perspective for rural poverty eradication in all its forms and dimensions, while giving the SDGs a central role in the transition towards more sustainable food systems and societies.