Youth and iyff in africa festiva africa sceaux 2014

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4ème Edition du Festival Africa Sceaux, Journée 1 – mercredi 12 mars 2014

Jeunes et Agriculture familiale en Afrique de l’Ouest

Ariel Djomakon, Université Paris-Sud XI


Structure of the presentation  2014: International Year of Family Farming IYFF  FF in the long run: adaptability, dominance, diversity  Contributions of FF to sustainable development

 Family Farming: how to define it?  FAO gives its definition

 CIRAD introduces its typology

 Youth and IYFF in Africa (West-Africa)  Awareness-raising Campaign (Councils, Farmers’ org)  AFFW, an innovative platform – Let’s Be A Farmer


 2014: International Year of Family Farming IYFF  FF in the long run: adaptability, dominance, diversity  Multiple functions of family farming (FF)

 Family Farming: how to define it?  FAO gives its definition

 CIRAD introduces its typology

 Youth and IYFF in Africa (West-Africa)  Awareness-raising Campaign (Councils, Farmers’ org)  AFFW, an innovative platform – Let’s Be A Farmer


Family Farming in the long run: adaptability, dominance, diversity  Family farming has been present since the beginning of agriculture Family farming has passed through technical revolutions A structural and deep asymetry...

Source : AVSF, 2014

Source: Mazoyer, 2009, Des écarts de productivité considérables entre les agricultures du monde


Contributions of Family farming to food production…  Family farmers are responsible for the production of 70% of the world’s food (FAO, 2013); 80% (AFD, 2014)

 Family farmers provide many tons of West Africa’s imported-rice Source: Sourisseau et al (2013), Cirad, Enquêtes consommation des ménages


… and sustainable development

FAO’s Eve Crowley

“Family and the farm are linked and co-evolve, they combine not only economic functions but also a range of other ‘hidden’ functions, including environmental, reproductive, social and cultural ones, often in lieu of state institutions or the private sector”

Credit : IFAD, FAO, Mario Dudar


International Year of Family farming : 03 Global lines of action

 Promotion processes

of

dialogue

in

policy

decision-making

 Multi-way communication with all stakeholders

 Identification, documentation and sharing lessons learned and successful experiences of existing pro-family farming policies at national and/or other levels to capitalize relevant knowledge on family farming  Interactive website (www.familyfarmingcampaign.net)

 Communication, advocacy and outreach  Effective advocacy campaign; ad’hoc activities as well


 2014: International Year of Family Farming IYFF  FF in the long run: adaptability, dominance, diversity  Contributions of FF to sustainable development

 Family Farming: how to define it?  FAO gives its definition

 CIRAD introduces its typology

 Youth and IYFF in Africa (West-Africa)  Awareness-raising Campaign (Councils, Farmer’s org)  AFFW, an innovative platform – Let’s Be A Farmer


Family farming : How to define? The FAO gives its definition

 WHAT IS FAMILY FARMING?

“Family farming includes all family-based agricultural activities, and it is linked to several areas of rural development. Family farming is a means of organizing agricultural, forestry, fisheries, pastoral and aquaculture production which is managed and operated by a family and predominantly reliant on family labour, including both women’s and men’s.”


Family farming : How to define? The CIRAD introduces its typology  « Our definition is an attempt to escape from :  Context dependant dimensions  A too large definition putting all together too different farms  The confusion between analytic and policy oriented definitions »

Source: Sourisseau et al (2013), Cirad


 2014: International Year of Family Farming IYFF  FF in the long run: adaptability, dominance, diversity  Contributions of FF to sustainable development

 Family Farming: how to define it?  FAO gives its definition

 CIRAD introduces its typology

 Youth and IYFF in Africa (West-Africa)  Awareness-raising Campaign (Councils, Farmers’ org.)  AFFW, an innovative platform – Let’s Be A Farmer


Youth and IYFF in Africa: Awareness-raising Campaign (councils, farmers’ organizations)

Institut Africain pour le Développement Economique et Social (INADES, Côte d’Ivoire)

Fédération Nationale des Organisations Paysannes (FENOP, Ouagadougou)

Conseil national de concertation et de coopération des ruraux (CNCR, Sénégal) travaille avec les jeunes ruraux


Youth and IYFF in Africa: Africa Family Farming Workshops, an innovative youth-led platform

 « AFFW has three main objectives:  encourage innovative scientific approaches and best practices of family farming;  promote interdisciplinary collaboration;  highlight the young professionals working in the field of agricultural research for development »

Blog : www.familyfarmingafrica.wordpress.com


Youth and IYFF in Africa: Let’s Be A Farmer, Benin Youth is volunteering for family farmers  Global Youth Service Day + International Year of Farming  Led us to Let’s Be A Farmer in Benin, our way to support their family farmers;

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