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Agenda

Background

Preconference - 22 NOV

National Committees of Family Farming Global Exchange Meeting

OBJECTIVES:

  • Knowledge sharing and capacity building of the NCFFs to promote and participate in the development of UNDFF National Action Plans (NAP) and other policies to support family farmers and strengthen their role in achieving sustainable, resilient, inclusive, and viable food systems.
  • Showcase experiences of UNDFF Regional/National Action Plans processes as an inspiration to other countries and stakeholders.
  • Reflect among participants in the key elements, as well as the critical points for the NCFFs to promote the implementation of the UNDFF at the national level. Encourage collaboration and coordination of relevant actors to implement the UNDFF 2019-2028.
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Welcome and opening remarks

Ms. Laura Lorenzo, Director, WRF

Mr. Willem Olthof, Deputy Head of Unit for Sustainable Agri-Food Systems and Fisheries, European Commission - DG INTPA

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Presentation: Policy dialogue and new alliances to strengthen the participation of family farming in food systems

Mr. Alvaro Ramos, Former Minister of Agriculture and Foreign Affairs of Uruguay, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA)

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Part 1: Development of UNDFF National Action Plans - Exchange of experiences

Philippines: Philippine Action Plan for Family Farming
Presentation: Ms. Antonieta J. Arceo, OIC - Assistant Director of the Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Training Institute, DA-ATI

Costa Rica: National Action Plan for Family Farming of Costa Rica 2020-2030
Presentation: Ms. Karen Rodriguez, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, member of the NCFF - Red Costarricense de Agricultura Familiar

Togo: Process for the joint construction of a National Action Plan
Presentation: Mr. Arthur Zogan, Executive secretary, CTOP, member of the NCFF of Togo

Portugal: UNDFF process in Portugal
Presentation: Ms. Sara Rocha, Actuar and Ms. Fernanda Castiço, Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development of Ministry of Agriculture of Portugal

Q&A

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Part 2: Presentation of the conclusions of the NCFFs regional meetings and plenary discussion

Conclusions of the NCFF exchange meetings. 1 NCFF representative per region:  Africa; Latin America and the Caribbean; Asia

Plenary discussion

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Conclusions and the way forward

Ms. Laura Lorenzo, Director, WRF

Mr. Guilherme Brady, Head of Unit, FAO - Family Farming Engagement and Parliamentary Networks, FAO-IFAD Joint Secretariat of the UNDFF

Day 1 - 23 NOV

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WELCOME & GLOBAL INSTITUTIONAL OPENING

  • Mr. Martin Uriarte, President of the WRF
  • Mr. Willem Olthof, Deputy Head of Unit for Sustainable Agri-Food Systems and Fisheries, European Commission - DG INTPA
  • Ms. Isabel Bombal, Director General of Rural Development, Innovation and Agri-Food Training, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food of Spain
  • Mr. Renato Alvarado, Minister of Agriculture and Livestock of the Government of Costa Rica (video)
  • Mr. Anani Kodjogan Kpadenou, Director of plant sectors in the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Rural Development of Togo
  • Ms. Esther Penunia, Asian Farmers Association General Secretary

1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Panel 1, ENHANCING SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION OF DIVERSIFIED, SAFE, AND NUTRITIOUS FOOD BY FAMILY FARMERS AND ITS CONTRIBUTING TO SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOOD

Objective: to present and discuss ways in which family farming can provide both a viable and sustainable livelihood for producers and a source of healthy and diverse food for communities.
Panel 1: Enhancing sustainable production of diversified, safe, and nutritious food by family farmers and its contribution to sustainable livelihood

Ep. 1: Enhancing sustainable production of diversified, safe, and nutritious food by family farmers

TIME ITEM  
1:00 pm Welcome Ms. Lavinia Kaumaitotoya, Programme Officer at Pacific Island Farmers Organisation Network (PIFON) and WRF Board member
1:10 pm Presentation of Panel 1 Mr. Jean-Michel Sourisseau, Economist and Head of Department at the Centre de recherche agronomique et de coopération internationale pour le développement durable (CIRAD) and facilitator of Panel 1
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Dialogue between family farming actors

“Enhancing sustainable production of diversified, safe, and nutritious food by family farmers ”

 Open dialogue
2:35 pm Comments on the dialogue

Mr. Alvaro Ramos, Former Minister of Agriculture and External Relations of Uruguay,  Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA)

Mr. Etienne Coyette, Policy Officer on Land Governance, Food Systems & Climate Change, European Commission – DG INTPA

Ms. Cristina Timponi Cambiaghi, Senior Thematic and Global Policy Specialist, International Land Coalition
2:50 pm Conclusions and closing Representative of ROPPA
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3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. SPECIAL SESSION: RURAL YOUTH

Objectives

This session co-organized by IFAD and the WRF will provide youth with a space where they can express their proposals in terms of Public Policies and programs that can help them address the challenges that threaten the Family Farming generational renewal. The young farmers might position themselves on how the UNDFF should be exploited to promote more effectively their own policy proposals at the global level and in specific countries in Latin America, Asia and Africa.

The results from this session could feed the UNDFF implementation strategies and the IFAD, the WRF and other actors’ agendas.

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SPEAKER
3.30 Welcome & Introduction
  • Ms. Sylvie Guillaud, Regional Coordinator for Africa, WRF
  • Mr. Yoro Thioye, Agricultural Policy Advisor, CNCR, Senegal

 

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First segment

Engaging young farmers in policy dialogues
UNDFF and its second pillar
  • Ms. Elizabeth Ssendiwala, Senior Technical Specialist on Rural Institutions for the Asia and the Pacific Region, IFAD
  • Ms. Anna Korzenszky, Family Farming Consultant, Partnerships and UN Collaboration 3 Division, FAO
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Second segment

Youth Public policies proposals to address their main challenges

The UNDFF as a support for the creation of a right policy environment  for the rural youth

Open discussion

  • Mr. Afantchawo Koudasse, ROPPA, West Africa
  • Ms. Evaline Aiya, ESAFF, East Africa
  • Mr. Jumer Marcaida, PAKISAMA-PAMANAKA and AFA, Asia
  • Ms. Melina Rodríguez, COPROFAM and CNFR, South America
  • Ms. Sandrine Tsogo, PROPAC, Central Africa
4.25

Conclusions

 Ms. Elizabeth Ssendiwala, Senior Technical Specialist on Rural Institutions for the Asia and the Pacific Region, IFAD

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CLOSING OF THE DAY

Day 2 - 24 NOV

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WELCOME & FRAMING: STRENGTHENING FF AS A PATHWAY TO SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS TRANSFORMATION

  • Mr. Dominik Ziller, Vice-President of International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD )
  • Ms. Beth Bechdol, Deputy Director-General Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
  • Mr. Zainal Arifin Fuad, International Coordination Committee member of LVC
  • Mr. Sok Sotha, Miembro de la Junta Directiva de la Organización Mundial de los Agricultores (WFO-OMA)

1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Panel 2, PROMOTING INCLUSIVE VALUE CHAINS AND ACCESS TO MARKETS FOR FAMILY FARMERS

Objective: to discuss proposals for market access and the creation and distribution of greater value for family farming production, ensuring family farming’s leadership in the shift towards more sustainable, resilient, inclusive and viable food systems
Panel 2: Promoting inclusive value chains and market access for family farmers

TIME (pm) ITEM  
1.00 Welcome Mr. José Angel Coto Hernández, Regional Rural Dialogue Programme (PDRR) Coordinator and WRF Board member
1.05 Presentation of Panel 2 Ms. Marlene D. Ramirez, ASIADHRRA Secretary General and facilitator of Panel 2
1.15 Learning from success experiences

3 successful experiences on access to inclusive markets and value chains:

  • Experience about partnership between farmers and private sector in Senegal. Presented by Mr. Pierre Ndiaye, CEO of the Senegalese SME Mamelles Jaboot.
  • Experience from Bolivia about mobile markets during pandemic period and beyond
    Mr. Rene Genaro Rojas Velasco, President of CIOEC Bolivia
  • Experience about generation of added value in the cacao production from Indonesian farmers. Presented by Ms. Dyah Aryani, Ngudi Mulyo Farmers Union.
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Dialogue between family farming stakeholders

“Promoting inclusive value chains and access to markets for family farmers”

  
2.40 Comments & Conclusions
  • Mr. Regis Méritan, Head of Agriculture Growth Sector at Sustainable Agri-Food systems and Fisheries Unit, European Commission – DG INTPA
  • Mr. Hakim Balinaire, President of ESAFF
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3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. SPECIAL SESSION: WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP AND FAMILY FARMING

Objective

This session, co-organized by FAO Gender and the World Rural Forum (WRF), will offer a space for an exchange between representatives of rural women’s organisations and women parliamentarians from different parts of the world on the pathways to effectively include within the political agenda the current challenges of gender equality in family farming.

TIME (pm)  ITEM SPEAKER
3.30 Welcome and Introduction Ms. Marcela Villarreal, Director of the Division of Partnerships and South-South Cooperation, FAO
3.35 How to include women’s demands in the political agenda and how to address them?      Ms. Giovanna Vásquez Luque, Director of the Directorate for the Promotion of Women Agricultural Producers of the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation of Peru
3.45 Round table with Parliamentarian on gender issues in Family Farming & public policies
  • Hon Mme Shandana Gulzar Khan Parliamentary Representative of Pakistan
  • Angelique Ngoma, Parliamentarian Representative of Gabon and Chair of the Cooperation and Development Committee of the APF
  • Flora Perdomo, Parliamentarian Representative of Colombia
  • Risa Hontiveros, Parliamentary Representative of the Philippines (Video)
4.25 Conclusions Ms. Laura Lorenzo, WRF Director

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CLOSING OF THE DAY

Day 3 - 25 NOV

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Opening of the day

12:50 p.m. - 2:50 p.m. Panel 3, PUBLIC POLICIES INCREASING THE PARTICIPATION OF FAMILY FARMING IN FOOD SYSTEMS

Objective: to present and discuss the generation of enabling policy environments (legal and institutional frameworks, political commitments, etc.), which ensure family farming leadership in the shift towards sustainable, resilient, inclusive and viable food systems. A key element to ensure that challenges and opportunities are well identified is to increase the participation of family farmers in decision-making processes. National Action Plans for the Decade and family farming laws and regulations will be outlined.
Panel 3: Public policies to increase the participation of family farming in the food systems

Ep. 2: Public policies to increase the participation of Family Farming in the Food systems

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12:50 pm Welcome Mr. Alberto Broch, President of COPROFAM and Vice-President of the WRF
1:00 pm Presentation of Panel 3 Mr. Lautaro Viscay, REAF-Mercosur Technical Secretary and facilitator of Panel 3
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Dialogue between family farming actors

“Public policies increasing the participation of family farming in food systems”

 Open dialogue
2:15 pm Comments on the dialogue

Mr. Pierre Ferrand, Senior Agriculture Officer, FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific

Mr. Conrad Rein, Responsible for policy issues European Commission (DG INTPA)

Ms. Fanny Grandval, Senior Regional Technical Specialist, IFAD
2:40 pm Conclusions and closing Ms. Montserrat Cortiñas, Vice Secretary General of UPA and member of the WRF Board of Directors
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3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. SPECIAL SESSION: LAND TENURE RIGHTS

Objectives

This session, co-organised by the ILC and the WRF, will provide a space to understand the inequalities around the access to land and the impact it has on family farming; and to show the potential of National Plans to address land inequality in favour of family farming.
Special session on land tenure rights

TIME ITEM SPEAKER
3.30 Welcome & introduction Ms. Laura Lorenzo, WRF Director
3.35

State of Play:

Land Inequality report

 Mr. Ward Anseeuw, Senior Technical Specialist Knowledge, Learning and Innovation, International Land Coalition
3.45 Round table on how to ensure Land’s Rights in the NAP
  • Mr. Aleksandr Temirbekov, NUWUA – National Civil Society Committee on Family Farming of Kyrgyzstan
  • Mr. Esteban Daza, IEE – National Committee for Peasant Family Farming
  • Mr. Adriano Campolina, Representative FAOFR
4.30 Conclusions Ms. Cristina Timponi Cambiaghi, Senior Thematic and Global Policy Specialist, International Land Coalition

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Closing of the day

Day 4 - 26 NOV

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Opening of the day

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HIGH LEVEL PANEL: SCALING UP THE UN DECADE OF FAMILY FARMING

Welcome

Mr. Martin Uriarte, WRF President
Moderated by: Ms. Marcela Villarreal, Director of FAO's Office for Partnerships, Advocacy and Capacity Development

Emerging opportunities for the success of the Decade of Family Farming. Introduction to the Family Farming Coalition

  • Ms. Pilar Cancela Rodríguez, Secretary of State for International Cooperation of the Government of Spain
  • Mr. Jose Bernardo Gonzalez, National Director of Rural Development, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development from Panamá
  • Mr. Mario Arvelo, Ambassador of the Dominican Republic to the Rome-based UN Agencies
  • Ms. Josyline C. Javelosa, Ph.D., Agriculture Attaché and Deputy Permanent Representative of the Philippines to the Rome-based International Organisations
  • Ms. Esther Penunia, Secretary General of AFA
  • M. Nathanael Buka Mupungu, President of PAFO (Organisation Panafricaine des Producteurs Agricoles) and PROPAC (Plateforme Régionale des Organisations Paysannes d’Afrique Centrale)
  • Ms. Laura Pacheco Ovares, Vice-Minister of Agriculture and Livestock of Costa Rica

Dialogue: priority actions for scaling up the UNDFF

Moderated by Ms. Marcela Villarreal

Conclusions and closing

Mr. Gabriel Ferrero, Ambassador-at-Large for Global Food Security at Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, Spain, and Chairman of the Committee on World Food Security

2:20 p.m. - 2:50 p.m. Communication initiatives for Family Farming and the UNDFF: experiences and priorities:

Session coorganized by FAO.

  • Mario Acunzo, FAO – Regional Initiatives & UNDFF Participatory Communication Plans
  • Phouttasinh Phimmachanch, AFA – ComDev Asia: Enhancing communication capacities of family farmers
  • Mateus Costa Santos, LVC – Yenkasa Africa: Giving voice to African farmers.
  • Laura Ramirez, READCAF Costa Rica – Onda Rural: Estrategia CpD para el PNAF
  • Namita Sing, Digital Green – Promoting Rural Communication Services for Family Farming

UNDFF awareness campaigns “Family farming at the heart of sustainable food systems”:

  • Gissela Davila, Ciespal – Launch of Regional UNDFF awareness campaigns

Closing remarks:  Goizargi de las Heras, WRF

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3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. SPECIAL SESSION: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND FAMILY FARMING

Objectives

This session co-organized by Farm and Forest Facility, World Rural Forum, and the FAO Indigenous Peoples Unit, will aim to identify how Indigenous Peoples could, within the framework of the UNDFF and its implementation plan, promote agendas of work that enable Indigenous peoples´ to engage in policy making. It will present the main principles of Indigenous Peoples’ food systems and explore the common characteristics shared between family farmers and Indigenous peoples. It will examine some of the main concerns and proposals that Indigenous Peoples have in relation to food systems and rural policies both at global as well as at regional and country level.

With that in mind, participants will discuss what opportunities the UNDFF present to advance on the Indigenous Peoples agenda.

TIME (PM)  ITEM SPEAKER
3.30 Welcome and introduction of session objectives Ms. Laura Lorenzo, WRF Director
3.35 The importance of Indigenous Peoples´ food systems Ms. Anne Nuorgam, Chair UNPFII
3.40 The pillars of the UNDFF that connects with the Indigenous Peoples’ Agenda
  • Mr. Guilherme Brady, FAO Head of Family Farming Engagement and Parliamentary Networks Unit
  • Yon Férnandez-de-Larrinoa, FAO Head of Indigenous Peoples Unit
3.50 Policy identification to support Indigenous Peoples´ food systems in the frame of the UN Decade of Family Farming
  • Mr. Phrang Roy, Coordinator of the Rome-based Indigenous Partnership for Agrobiodiversity and Food Sovereignty
  • Ms. Rukka Sombollingi, Director AMAN (TBC)
  • Ms. Tania Martinez, member Global-Hub on Indigenous Peoples’ food systems, Food security and native seeds
  • Mr. Daniel Kobei, Executive Director, Ogiek Peoples´ Development Program (OPDP)
  • Ms. Mariam Wallet Aboubakrine, Kel Tamasheq people, Tin Hinane Association
4.15 Q&A  
4.25 Conclusions and way forward
  • Mr. Yon Férnandez-de-Larrinoa, FAO Head of Indigenous Peoples Unit

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Global closing

  • Mr. Nathanaël BUKA MUPUNGU, President of PAFO (Organisation Panafricaine des Producteurs Agricoles) and PROPAC (Plateforme Régionale des Organisations Paysannes d’Afrique Centrale)
  • Mr. Alberto Broch, General Secretary of COPROFAM
  • Ms. Arantxa Tapia Otaegi, Secretary of Economic Development, Sustainability and Environment of the Basque Government
  • Ms. Laura Lorenzo, Director of the WRF