2014 - International Year of Family Farming
In December 2011 the General Assembly of the United Nations officially declared 2014 as the International Year of Family Farming (see Declaration). This decision reinforces the growing recognition of the United Nations on the important role of family farms and small producers to produce food sustainably in order to eradicate hunger and poverty.
Specifically, and in view of the consecration of 2014 - International Year of Family Farming, the CPLP Farmer's Platform intends to fight and work together towards:
- Achieve a definition and recognition of small farmers for the purpose of dialogue and political dialogue and defining the object of public policies that impact on agriculture and food security and sovereignty;
- Require that 80% of public funds (national, regional, global) invested in agriculture are directly channeled to support small producers and family farms;
- Require policies, programs and strategies to promote agroecology and strategic orientation focused on small family farms and agriculture, and effective regulation of the emerging "technology package" associated to the third green revolution;
- Fight for the consecration of agrobiodiversity and traditional knowledge as well of universal public interest and require effective regulation of access and management of sustainable land, water and other natural resources;
- Require access to local markets for small producers through public regulation, in particular the adoption of protective tariffs and positive discrimination to promote production, processing and marketing of agricultural family.
Specifically, and in view of the consecration of 2014 - International Year of Family Farming, the CPLP Farmer's Platform intends to fight and work together towards:
- Achieve a definition and recognition of small farmers for the purpose of dialogue and political dialogue and defining the object of public policies that impact on agriculture and food security and sovereignty;
- Require that 80% of public funds (national, regional, global) invested in agriculture are directly channeled to support small producers and family farms;
- Require policies, programs and strategies to promote agroecology and strategic orientation focused on small family farms and agriculture, and effective regulation of the emerging "technology package" associated to the third green revolution;
- Fight for the consecration of agrobiodiversity and traditional knowledge as well of universal public interest and require effective regulation of access and management of sustainable land, water and other natural resources;
- Require access to local markets for small producers through public regulation, in particular the adoption of protective tariffs and positive discrimination to promote production, processing and marketing of agricultural family.