Small farmer entrepreneurship

  1. GFAR at the General Assembly of the World Famers Organization
    GFAR participated at the Fourth Edition of the General Assembly of the World Farmers Organization (WFO) held in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 26-28 March 2014. The WFO brought together agricultural confederations from 80 different countries and international organizations to discuss critical…
  2. Livestock Development: How it contributes to smallholder farmers
    by K.M.L. Pathak Almost every smallholder farming family in a developing country owns livestock, whether chickens, rabbits, sheep, goats, pigs, cows, buffaloes, donkeys, horses, yaks, llamas, or camels. In India and many other countries, there is greater equity in livestock ownership…
  3. A national policy of seeds recognizing farmers’ rights: Guatemala, an example to be followed
    Guatemala, a rich country in cultural diversity and center of domestication of important crops for food security, such as maize, has advanced in the development of legal and policy frameworks relevant for the implementation of Farmers’ Rights.   In 2013, a committee, lead by the…
  4. Building on local dynamics: 5 policy recommendations for enhancing innovation by African smallholder farmers
    Introducing improved technology does not automatically lead to innovation and desired change! It is one of many inputs into an ongoing, collective, interactive and multi-faceted innovation process that involves continuous adaptation to new conditions so as to improve system productivity, food…
  5. 5 policy recommendations for enhancing innovation by African smallholder farmers
    Introducing improved technology does not automatically lead to innovation and desired change! It is one of many inputs into an ongoing, collective, interactive and multi-faceted innovation process that involves continuous adaptation to new conditions so as to improve system productivity, food…
  6. National Meeting on Farmers' Rights in Guatemala
    On 28 November 2013 GFAR, the Ministry of Agriculture of Guatemala and other organizations held the first National Meeting on Farmers' Rights in Guatemala with the aim of achieving a common understanding of Farmers' Rights by the public and private sector, and to raise awareness on the…
  7. Indigenous peoples’ rights to lands, territories, and resources
    Source: ILC   This study assesses the international instruments, mechanisms, UN bodies, and other regional and global initiatives that address concerns relating to indigenous lands, territories, and resources. In addition, it carries out an extensive regional review, showing how the situation…
  8. International Farmer Innovation Day
    29 November is International Farmer Innovation Day, coordinated through the Prolinnova-PROmoting Local INNOVAtion in ecological-oriented agriculture and natural resource management global network. The Day heightens awareness of farmers’ innovations in adapting to a continuously changing…
  9. Joint statement for the ECOSOC side event on “Innovation Systems for Family Farming”
    3 July 2013, Geneva   CGIAR, FAO, GFAR and IFAD, by convening this side event on “Innovation Systems for Family Farming” during the High-Level Segment of the ECOSOC Substantive Session 2013, wish to draw the attention of the ECOSOC members to the crucial importance of innovation in…
  10. Smallholder farmers putting on the business lens
    Those of us working with smallholder farmers in Colombia have experienced their proud and passionate narratives about planting, growing and harvesting their crops. Only when we ask about selling them do their faces become grim, most of them answering something like: “Ay si la comercialización,…
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