Welcome to the Thematic Presentation on “Family Farming”. We the MSW II year student of School of Social Work Roshni Nilaya select this topic for thematic presentation because 2014 is The”International Year of Family Farming”. Through this presentation our focus is to inform about the family farming, importance of family farming, what is International Year of Family Farming, 2014, Objectives of family farming and so on.

1. MSW (III Sem)
Community Development
Thematic Presentation
On
Family Farming

2. Social Change Management
Office Bearers
• Sanky
• Sr. Jayasree
• Sr. Shanthi
Members
• Akshitha
• Amit
• Edelin
• Manasa
• Mellora
• Muneer
• Rajashree
• Shilpashri
• Shrinath
• Shwetha
• Suhashini
• Thanushri
• Umesh

3. THE CONCEPT OF FAMILY FARMING

4. What is family farming?
• Key to reducing poverty and improving global
food security.

5. What is family farming?
• 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 and men

6. Video

7. THE INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF FAMILY
FARMING (IYFF)
• The objective of raising the profile of family
farming
• Alleviating hunger and poverty, providing food
security and improving livelihoods, while
protecting the environment and biodiversity
• Reposition family farming at the centre of
agricultural, environmental and social policies in
the national agendas by identifying gaps and
opportunities to promote a shift towards a more
equal and balanced development

8. • UN has designated year 2014 as the International
Year of Family Farming (IYFF)
• Rural Youth engaged in family farming produce over
half of the world's food and they have the potential
to produce more.
• 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.

9. What are the objectives of the IYFF?
The key objectives of IYFF
• Support the development of policies that will foster sustainable
family farming
• Increase knowledge and public awareness on the vital role that
family farmers play in the agricultural and development sectors
• Raise awareness of the needs and potential of family farmers,
along with the constraints that they face, and ensure that they
have access to technical support
• Create synergies for sustainability

10. • Recognize the role and rights of women in family farming
• Strengthen the legitimacy of farmers’ organizations and their
capacity to effectively represent and defend the interests of
family farmers;
• Create rural economic opportunities for family farmers that
provide alternatives to migration to urban areas
• Promote local and indigenous knowledge and know-how
• Encourage research that improves food security and supports
sustainable rural development, safeguards cultural heritage,
protects the environment and maintains biodiversity
• Promote dialogue on policy and decision making processes
• Identify and share lessons learned and successful pro-family
farming policies, and capitalize relevant knowledge on family
farming
• Enhance communication, advocacy and outreach.

11. The importance of family farming
• common operational farming model in
developing countries
• A majority of Indians are dependent on
Agriculture and most of them are involved in
family farm.

12. The importance of family farming
• Generates food and income for hundreds of millions of
rural people, including the poor and marginalized
• Creates jobs for women, men and young people, both
within their family farms and in related enterprises
along food and agricultural value chains
• Provides models of adaptability and resilience for more
sustainable food production
• Is socially and culturally part of communities and
territories constituting nations, and as such underpins
national food security in most countries
• Safeguards and protects environmental assets and
natural resources, biodiversity and cultural heritage.

13. Did you know that?
• 1.5 billion people worldwide are estimated to be involved in family farming
• There are over 500 million small farms worldwide;
• Growth in agricultural production to meet rising global needs using prevailing (large-scale)
farming practices is unsustainable
• 76 per cent of the world’s poorest people live in rural areas, where agriculture is their main
source of livelihood
• Households in developing countries spend 70-80 per cent of their disposable income on food
• There are an estimated 842 million hungry people in the world, three-quarters of whom live
in rural areas
• Our future food security depends on smallholder farmers, yet they are often neglected
• Almost half of the developing world’s farmers are women
• Climate change threatens to increase the number of hungry and impoverished people,
especially in the developing world
• With the right economic, social and environmental conditions, smallholder family farmers can
be at the forefront of a sustainable transformation in world agriculture.

14. CHALLENGES OF FAMILY FARMERS

15. Why to Promote Family farming?
• GUARANTEE OF FOOD SUPPLY
• GENERATES WELFARE
• POVERTY ALLEVIATION
• BIO-DIVERSITY PROTECTION
• WOMEN AS FARMERS

16. SPOTLIGHT ON FARMERS

17. THE ROLE OF COMMUNITY WORKER
AND SOCIAL WORKER

18. • Raise awareness of the needs and potential of
youth in family farming,
• ensure that they have access to technical
support along with the creation of synergies
for sustainability
• Identification of rural economic opportunities
for youth in family farming
• Development and formulation of policies that
will foster sustainable family farming

19. Strengthening links between the forestry and family farming.
To increase partnership and dialogue in the broad and diversified sectors of
family and small scale agricultural activities.
Improve access to finance information and services to help beneficiaries
economic, social and environmental sustainability.
Create enabling environment in order to promote legal and policy reforms to
tackle the challenges that the
forest committees are facing.

20. WE THE STUDENTS OF
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT II
MSW ARE VERY GREATFUL TO ALL
THE FACULTY FOR GIVING US THIS
OPPORTUNITY AND TIME.
THANK YOU