In the 2021 international agenda on food systems, the Decade of Family Farming 2019-2028 offers the international community an umbrella to achieve positive change with fair transition in food systems. The UNDFF Global Action Plan-built upon a wide consensus, provides a series of comprehensive actions, from the global, regional to the local levels, to address the challenges and opportunities of family farming.

The Global Conference on Family Farming and Food Systems will seek to scale up the implementation of the UNDFF 2019-2028 towards more sustainable, resilient, inclusive, and viable food systems, contributing directly to the achievement of the SDGs.

The Global Conference will be a high-level platform to enhance the relevance of Family Farming in achieving sustainable, resilient, inclusive, and viable food systems, under the UNDFF 2019-2028 umbrella and stimulate concrete commitments in favor of the 2500 million of people depending on family farming activities around the world. Indeed, the main objectives of the event will be

1. to mainstream family farmers’ participation in the definition of policies towards sustainable food systems (inclusive food systems)
2. to contribute to the definition of policies and programs strengthening family farming;
3. generate reflections and commitments towards sustainable food systems based on the development of family farming models of production and organization.

By setting family farming at the core of food systems the Conference will aim to both

• contribute to the different dimensions of sustainability of food systems but also
• to address the family farmers’ challenges by coping with the inequalities of food systems.

More than 300 representatives of governments, family farming organizations, regional platforms, research centers and National Family Farming Committees, international institutions (such as the EU, FAO, IFAD) and development agencies from five continents are invited to participate in the conference.