When the PELUM Board tasked me to coordinate the Small Farmer Convergence (SFC) process in April 2002, I felt a big load lending on my shoulders. For, even though most of the PELUM member countries had already begun the sensitisation and agenda setting process, we had no resources then, nor did we have the farmer issues and concerns in consolidated form. There was too little time to raise the resources and to make the necessary preparations. But today, as I write this foreword in Johannesburg, I realise that there was indeed enough time for the SFC got to do what we set out to do. I am touched and inspired by the accomplishments we made so soon. The teamwork, energy, synergy and vision made this possible