The objective of this work was to analyze the process of inclusion of family farming in the ABC+ Plan. Initially, a historical contextualization of the emergence of the ABC Plan was made. Little participation of family farming in this Plan was verified. With the emergence of the ABC+ Plan, which...

At the present moment in history, humanity is faced with several major challenges, one of them being that of feeding an increasingly populous and urbanised planet. The challenge is even greater as it becomes clearer that it is not just a matter of producing enough fibres and primary products...

The starting point for this study was the consideration of future climate change scenarios and their uncertainties. The paper presents the global projections from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) and compares them with regional scenarios...

The Asia and the Pacific region has the largest number of family farms in the world. It is home to 60 per cent of the world's population and to 74 per cent of the world's family farmers, with China alone representing 35 per cent and India 24 per cent of the estimated 570 million farms worldwide...

The persistent agrarian crisis facing sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and the recent food price hikes have provoked greater urgency among governments, civil society actors and development agencies to identify public policies that can accelerate agricultural transformation towards achieving food...

The United Nations International Year of Family Farming 2014 came at an important time for the region of the Near East and North Africa (NENA). This is because the political turmoil and uprisings that have structured politics and social policy in the region since 2010 (and as we will also see,...

Most people have a clear understanding of what the term 'family farm' means. This is especially true in Europe. The term refers, in a seemingly straightforward and unambiguous way, to well-known and self-evident realities. It is solidly internalised in the memory of most people, even those with...

This special edition of Policy in Focus aims to follow up on discussions and debates instigated by the International Year of Family Farming (IYFF 2014) by drawing attention to specific cases as well as more general policy recommendations related to family farming in countries of the Global...

Recent technological advances both on the farm and in the lab are boosting not only the efficiency of modern farming but have made it also more independent form nature than ever before. Increasingly affordable and accessible new technologies are helping us to better understand and ‘manage’...

Im Jahr 2015 wurden österreichweit landwirtschaftliche BetriebsleiterInnen von Dauerkultur-, Forst- Futterbau-, Marktfrucht-, Veredelungs- und Gemischtbetrieben schriftlich zur Risikobewertung und zum betrieblichen Risikomanagement befragt. Dieses Diskussionspapier präsentiert deskriptive...