Workshop on Small-Scale Farming in the Caribbean: "FAO Medium-Term StrategicFramework for Cooperation in Small-scale (Family) Farming in Latin America and the Caribbean 2012-2015”, by Salomon Salcedo, Senior Policy Officer, FAO Regional Officer, Santiago, Chile.

1. FAO MEDIUM-TERM STRATEGIC
FRAMEWORK FOR COOPERATION IN
FAMILY FARMING
2012 -2015

2. FAO Priorities in LAC
Regional Conference, March 2012, 4 priority areas:
1. Food security
2. Family farming
3. Transboundary diseases and food safety
4. Climate change and sustainable management of Natural
Resources
RC, a Governing body of FAO
1. Informs Council on regional priorities
2. Regional priorities inform new Strategic Framework

3. Strategic Framework for Cooperation
in Family Farming in LAC
1. Concept of family farming in the Region
2. Challenges and opportunities of Family Farming
3. Key institutions involved in Family Farming in the region
4. Comparative Advantages of FAO
5. Areas of cooperation and expected results
6. Implementation, monitoring and evaluation
Annexes

4. Definition of Family Farming in
the Region
 Definition in several countries
 Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica,
Paraguay, Uruguay
 Mercosur - REAF
 Common Elements (pluri-activities, home location, labor
force)
 Programs / Policy instruments

5. …defintion of Family Farming
> Family farming is a means of organizing agricultural production (agriculture
includes agricultural, forestry, fisheries, pastoral, and aquaculture activities
and combinations of these) which is managed and operated by a family and
primarily reliant on non-wage family labor.
> The family (in some contexts includes extended family members) and the
farm are inseparably linked, co-evolve and combine productive, social and
reproductive functions.
 Concept in evolution

6. Challenges and Opportunities
1. Development of an institutional framework
2. Rural development planning based on local participation mechanisms
3. Application of the territorial approach
4. Food security
5. Gender gap
6. Strengthening associations / cooperatives
7. Access to markets and participation in value chains
8. Access to financing
9. Insurance
10. Technological gap / access technology
11. Extension services / training
12. Climate change

7. Keys institutions in Family Farming
• National Goverments
•Argentina (Ministry of Rural Development and Family Farming)
•Bolivia (Productive Community Agricultural Revolution Act)
•Brazil (PRONAF, Ministeriy)
•Chile (INDAP)
•Uruguay (Programes, Research)
•Paraguay (PRONAF)
•El Salvador (Family Farming Plan)
•Costa Rica (Family Farming Sectorial Plan)
•Guatemala (Family Farming Program to strengthen the rural economy)
• International Insititutions
• REAF, IFAD, IICA, RUTA, RIMISP

8. Comparative advantages of FAO
• Good Agricultural Practices
• Integrated Pest Management
• Farmer Fields Schools
• Rural Development Agencies
• Production systems/ Seed distribution
• Project Formulation(Rural-invest)
• MicroBanking System
• Comunity Forestry
• Productive Partnerships in Agrochains
• Community development plans / territorial socioeconomic and gender
analysis; Field and Life Schools for young farmers
• Policy cycle, Policy Analysis Matrix ...

9. Objective
To work with the countries of Latin America
and the Caribbean in the formulation and
adoption of policies and programmes to
increase the production of goods and services
originating from family farming in a
sustainable manner, and thereby contribute to
the well-being of rural families in the region

10. Areas of Cooperation
Increase in the production of goods and services originating from family
farming in a sustainable way that promotes greater well-being of families
Development /
Sustainable reorientation of Access to
intensification the institutional markets and
of production framework for inclusion in
Family Farming value chains
Socio-economic, gender, rural youth and policy analysis

11. Area 1. Socioeconomic, gender, rural youth, and
policy analysis
• Strengthening of national, regional and local capacities for
undertaking socioeconomic and gender analysis of family
farming productive systems, applying methodologies such
as the policy analysis matrix (MAP) and socioeconomic and
gender analysis (ASEG), as well as tools and indicators to
make diagnostic assessment of the current rural
employment situation.
• Training and analysis of trade flows and marketing
margins that have an impact on the competitiveness of
family farming.
• Diagnostic assessments at the national level to identify, in
general, the potential and main constraints on family
farming, as one of the inputs for defining priorities and
support strategies in public policies.

12. Area 2. Sustainable intensification of family
agricultural production
• Development of production systems, conservation and
marketing of seeds and intensification of grain production
through the use of high quality seeds
• Development of Farmer Field Schools, empowering the
leading producers and extension workers
• Strengthening extension systems with self-management
approaches
• Promotion of Integrated Pest Management in smallholder
agriculture
• Development of sustainable livestock, agro-aquaculture,
silvopastoral, agroforestry family systems

13. Area 3. Access to markets and inclusion in value
chains
• Studying models and proposals for integrating family
farming into agrifood markets.
• Strengthening of the capacities of family farmers (business
capacities, preparation of investment projects, quality and
safety standards, etc.) and establishment of alliances with
buyers.
• Strengthening of associative management capacities and
negotiation in markets.
• Improving the competitiveness of local traditional markets
(open markets, specialized markets, mobile markets, flea
markets, etc.) as an important channel for the
commercialization of healthy food products from family
farming.
• Development of market information systems.

14. Area 4. Development of an institutional framework
for family farming
• Development of national strategies for the sustainable
intensification of family farming production, integration of
rural employment issues in relevant policy processes, and
evaluation of the trade-offs between different policy
alternatives.
• Strengthening of local, regional and national capacities for the
adoption of pro-family farming policies and strategies, and for
the design and implementation of new programmes and
projects, using a results-based management approach.
• Organization of national and sub-regional forums for the
discussion and exchange of experiences in public policies and
strategies for family farming.
• Facilitating the exchange of experiences by government
officials and civil society organizations involved in family
farming policies.

15. Management of the FAO Cooperation Framework in Family Farming in Latin
American and Caribbean Countries
Planning Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Final Report
Strategic and Medium-Term Plan Family Farming
World 2014-17 Functional
Technical Group2
Family Farming 1
Region Regional Priority Framework Biennial work plans and budget by
region :
Specific results with indicators and
goals Permanent Secretariat
of the Regional
Regional Conference for Latin
Sub-Region Family America and the
Farming Caribbean
Caribbean Sub-Regional Priority Biennial work plans and budget by Priority
Framework sub-region: Group3
Central America & Specific results with indicators and
goals
Mexico
South America
Biennial work plans and budget
Country Programming by country: National
Country Framework Specific results with indicators governments
and goals
1 Family farming is one of four regional priorities. Each country may have different or complementary priorities to the four regional priorities.
2 Family Farming Functional Technical Group: Comprised of focal points in national governments, officers of the headquarters of FAO in Rome, professionals of the
Regional family farming Focus Group and other relevant institutions; It will meet quarterly to evaluate work plans using established monitoring methods.
3 Regional Family Farming Priority Group: Comprised of professionals from various offices of FAO in the region working in family farming; it will provide technical
assistance for the implementation of the Strategic Framework and will monitor work plans on a monthly basis.

16. Functional Technical Group
Today:
 58 government focal points
 38 other institutions (civil society and academia)
 33 professionals from FAO in the Region
 10 FAO professionals HQ

17. Communication
Newsletter
 Editorial
 The interview
 Family Farming Observatory
 Good practices
 Did you Know?
 Agenda
2014 International Year of Family Farming

18. Thank you
Salomón Salcedo
Family Farming Priority Group
www.rlc.fao.org
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