s.schneider presentation global dialogue on ff - copia
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Key Aspects of the Family
Farming in the World
GLOBAL DIALOGUE ON FAMILY FARMING
ROME-FAO, 27-28/10/2014
Prof. Dr. Sergio Schneider
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul/Brasil
Summary
1. A World of Family – small – Farms;
2. Contributions of Family Farming;
3. The Hidden Features and Advantages;
4. Main Constrains of Family Farming;
5. How to Support and Foster Family
Farming?;
1. A World of Family
– small – Farms
What we already know about family
farming in the world ?
1. There are around 500 million units of familly
farms in the world – total of units is 570 million; 13% in low income countries;
36% in lower middle income countries;
71 %FFs have less than 1 hectar of land;
2. Family Farms are Highlly Diversify: by acess to land;
by farming/production systems;
by income and economic position - poverty
3. Statistics and Information is misunderstood
about FFs.
Source: Lowder, S.K., Skoet, J. and Singh, S. 2014. What do
we really know about the number and distribution of farms
and family farms worldwide?
Source: Lowder, S.K., Skoet, J. and Singh, S. 2014. What do
we really know about the number and distribution of farms
and family farms worldwide?
Source: Lowder, S.K., Skoet, J. and Singh, S. 2014. What do
we really know about the number and distribution of farms
and family farms worldwide?
Family and Land
Rural Communities
Culture - Values and Tradition
Peasantry Small Scale Production
Family and Land
Rural Communities
Culture - Values and Tradition
Peasantry
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Family Farming
Food Production
Markets
Society
Land Access
Local resources
Environmental Resilience
Income Generation
Employment
Rural Development
Local Supply
National and Global Food Chains
Economic Development
FAO concept/definition of FAMILY FARMING:
1. It’s very diificult to define FFs: there were
find out more than 36 definitions: 13 Latin American family farms;
7 refere to Sub-Saharan family farms.
2. The International Steering Committee for IYFF:
Family Farming (which includes all family-based agricultural
activities) is a means of organizing agricultural, forestry,
fisheries, pastoral and aquaculture production which is
managed and operated by a family and predominantly
reliant on family labour, including both women’s and
men’s. The family and the farm are linked, co-evolve and
combine economic, environmental, social and cultural
functions
Fonte: Van der PLOEG, 2014 – Ten Qualities of Family Farming
2. Main Contributions
of Family Farming
1. Food Security and Production;
2. Rural Poverty Overcome;
3. Demographic dinamics;
4. Livelihood resilience – climate change;
5. Rural Development – local economies
3. The Hidden
Features and
Advantages
1. Cultural and Symbolic dimensions;
2. Gender;
3. Generation – young people and sucession;
4. Access to knowledge and traditions;
‘Art of farming and rural space with
people’
4. Mains Constrains
of Family Farming
To Better Understood 1.Family Farming is not just about SIZE – the key role of the
FAMILY and the WORK;
2.Family Farming is not against tecnology and Markets –
theoreticall and political misunderstandings;
3.The Risks of Climate Changes and the erosion of conditions to
work, produce and to live !!
4.The Squeeze of the Global Chains – food globalization – by prices
and tecnology;
5.Land Grabbing – strong pression for land;
6.The State and Policies – there is still a role to play !
Family Farming – main threaths
1.Sub- Saharan Africa :
Access to land;
Just 20% of arable land suitable for cultivation;
Gender inequalities.
2.Asia and the Pacif :
To warrant food sovereignty
3.Near Easth and North Africa :
War and political instability
Family Farming – main threaths
1.Europa and central Asia:
Price squeeze and increasing competition;
2.North America:
Demographic transition;
3.Latin America and the Caribbean:
Pressure on resources – land and
biodiversity
5. How to Support
and Foster Family
Farming?
What can be done to support and foster FFs ?
GUIDELINES - ENABLERS
1.Policies and public support must better
understand the diversity of FF and deal with it
at local, regional and globally;
2.Innovation and Tecnology- produce more with
less - agregate value and sustainable
intensification
3. Poverty and FF – overcome strutuctural
vulnerabilities
What can be done to support and foster FFs
POLICIES
1.Markets – not to much neither to less !!;
2.Strenght social capital and cooperation;
3.Support Gender and Generation – farmers
for the future
4.To conect FF to national and global rural
development strategy
