GFFF celebrates essential role of family farmers in building sustainable agrifood systems and tackling the impacts of the climate crisis.

• GFFF also marked the halfway completion of the United Nations Decade of Family Farming 2019-28 (UNDFF).
• UNDFF was declared by United Nations General Assembly and it serves as a framework for countries to develop public policies and investments to support family farming.

About Family farming

• Family Farming: Is a means of organizing agricultural, forestry, fisheries, pastoral and aquaculture production that is managed and operated by a family, and is predominantly reliant on the family labour of both women and men.
• Significance of Family farming
  • Food security: With over 550 million farms worldwide, it is the backbone of food production.
    • It produces 70 to 80%of the world’s food in value terms.
  • Nutritional diversity: Family farming, in low- and middle-income countries, grow diverse, nutritious food and support cropbiodiversity.
  • Sustainable stewardship: Family farmers use traditional methods, minimal external inputs to maintain soil health and build climate resilience naturally.
• Challenges faced by Family farming: Financial barriers, limited access to assistance, genetics and knowledge., fragmentation of land, market access difficulties, climate threats, lack of generational succession support, etc.