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💬 Taaloga A. “Women contribute most of the labor in farming, yet without secure land rights, their efforts remain invisible.”

📚 The Gender and Public Policies Course for Women Family Farmers, promoted by the World Rural Forum, generates reflections like this one: powerful testimonies from the women themselves that highlight challenges still to be overcome and reaffirm the need for change and for a vital conversation in this Year of the Woman Farmer.

The course’s mid-term online session provided another opportunity to share experiences and continue learning and exchanging together. It was also a chance to highlight initiatives such as WRF’s Rural Women in Action Network, which plays a key role in advancing genuine gender equality.

We heard valuable insights and experiences. Rose Pelagie (REFACOF) spoke about women’s access to land in Cameroon; Karina David (INOFO) discussed the barriers faced by young rural women seeking access to decision-making spaces in Brazil; and Meenakshi Choudry (SEWA) presented her work with women leaders driving the green transition in India.

📍An open and participatory space for dialogue, directly linked to the key themes of the Year of the Woman Farmer and aligned with Pillar 3 of the United Nations Decade of Family Farming (UNDFF 2019–2028): Promote gender equity in family farming and the leadership role of rural women.

The knowledge gained through the course will remain and continue to spread: these women are training to train others, creating a chain of learning that reaches communities on the ground.

🟣 Change is moving forward. By and for rural women.

🇪🇺 Co-funded by the European Union. Its contents are the sole responsibility of the World Rural Forum and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union.




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Rangelands: Recognize. Respect. Restore.

This is the theme of Desertification and Drought Day 2026, and it couldn’t be timelier.

Rangelands cover nearly half of the Earth’s land surface. They sustain biodiversity, anchor water cycles, store carbon, and, above all, support the livelihoods of millions of people, including the family farmers and pastoralists who have managed these landscapes for generations.

In the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists , it’s time to change how we approach their engagement in policy making from just being beneficiaries and start recognising them as strategic and fundamental land stewards who hold powerful solutions.

Family farmers and rural communities don’t just live on these lands. They know them, protect them, and restore them with irreplaceable knowledge and commitment.

The World Rural Forum will be present at UNCCD COP17 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, next August, to ensure that family farming and rural communities have a seat at the table where global responses to desertification and drought are shaped.

Because restoring the land means investing in the people who care for it.



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🟢 At SB64 in Bonn, the World Rural Forum co-organised a side event bringing together frontline food systems actors, youth and NGO practitioners to advance a shared agenda on climate finance and just transitions in agriculture across the three Rio Conventions.

The event also marked the launch of a Call to Action co-developed by WRF with Ambition Loop, which is the result of a dialogue process with frontline actors across food systems.

Family farmers, indigenous peoples and other frontline actors deliver proven climate solutions across the Rio Conventions, but remain underrepresented in the formal processes that shape the very policies meant to support them. The Call to Action offers concrete recommendations to change that.

Among the key takeaways are:

✅To recognise frontline food systems actors as strategic partners in implementation.

✅To support front line food systems actors to attend international events, ensuring their voices are present when decisions are made.

✅To support preparatory processes such as thematic Pre-COPs and field visits ahead of summits as a space to articulate and make community-led solutions visible.

We firmly believe that an inclusive, participatory approach enriches global discussions with lived experience and shapes decisions that benefit communities on the ground, bringing us closer to our collective climate goals.

We invite COP Presidencies, Parties, specialised agencies and philanthropic actors to engage with frontline actors and turn these proposals into reality.

📄 Read the full Call to Action: https://bit.ly/43Ce60N



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The Sharm el-Sheikh Joint Work on Agriculture and Food Security (SJWA) was established to raise ambition on climate action in food systems. At in Bonn this week, the World Rural Forum ensured that family farming was central to that conversation.

🗣️ Participating in the World Café on means of implementation, we brought a clear message: the gap between what family farmers contribute and what they receive from climate finance is a structural problem that must be addressed to build resilient and sustainable food systems.

🌎Across the world, family farmer organisations are already building climate resilience and delivering solutions through peer-to-peer learning and community-led adaptation.They are doing this with very little support from the current climate finance and policies architecture.

Models exist that work: financing windows co-led by family farmers organisations, direct access mechanisms, multistakeholder policy dialogue platforms, and small grant facilities. They deliver and they need to be scaled up.

As negotiations head toward COP31, we are calling for three things:

Better policies that recognise and support family farming in national and global frameworks.

More and better quality finance that is direct, flexible, and designed with family farmers

Real partnership with family farmers as decision-makers in climate governance, not just beneficiaries.

Family farmers are already adapting, innovating, and building resilience. The question now is whether the international climate system will finally be designed to meet them where they are.

🇪🇺🌳This initiative is financially supported by the European Union and the Forest and Farm Facility (FFF).



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SB64 in Bonn is a key milestone in the climate calendar and an opportunity to position family farming as a provider of climate solutions.

Family farming arrives in Bonn, on its road to COP31 in Antalya, with a united voice with the aim of accelerating implementing mechanisms for climate action that deliver for rural communities.

🟢 As UNFCCC observers, the World Rural Forum and its member organisations call for stronger, more coherent and more inclusive climate action, placing family farmers at the centre of both negotiations and the Action Agenda.

📗 Our key messages are:

- Recognition of the strategic role of family farming and its contribution as a provider of climate solutions.

- Access to climate finance so it reaches the ground through direct, effective mechanisms

- Meaningful participation of family farmers in the implementation of NDCs and National Adaptation Plans.

- Delivering a just and inclusive transition for rural communities underpinned by secure land tenure and access to water as foundational conditions.

- Seeking a comprehensive transformation of climate governance and establishing a dedicated fund for family farming to channel resources to the ground.

- Empowerment of rural women and youth in climate action.

At , family farming is ready to engage and help shape critical outcomes: defining the future work under the agriculture item, building confidence in the GGA indicators, securing an ambitious arrangement for the just transitions mechanism, and ensuring climate finance architecture is aligned to the needs and realities of family farming communities in their territories.

These June Climate Meetings represent an opportunity to recognise the vital role of family farmers across the UNFCCC work and we are ready to seize the moment.

🤝 If you are attending SB64 in Bonn, get in touch with us to explore opportunities for meeting and collaboration.

🇪🇺🌳This initiative is financially supported by the European Union and the Forest and Farm Facility (FFF).



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🌍 The planet is sending signals.

Intense droughts, heatwaves, flooding, biodiversity loss. Across the world, family farmers are the first to feel these changes: they rely directly on land, water, soils, forests and natural cycles to thrive.

Despite being disproportionately affected by the climate crisis, family farmers are providing solutions on the ground.

🌱 Through sustainable practices adapted to the territories they know so well —such as soil conservation, agroecology and the efficient use of water— family farmers help protect ecosystems, strengthen communities and ensure food security.

📝 A new study by the World Rural Forum analyses 12 public policies on family farming around the world and concludes that the most innovative ones integrate sustainability and climate resilience approaches. Because environmental health and agricultural progress go hand in hand.

You can access the full study in English via 👉 https://bit.ly/3PukyUh

The WRF articulates the diversity of its network to engage proactively in global environmental governance, elevating the voices and lived experiences of family farmers across the Rio Conventions.

On this , we remember that caring for the planet also means supporting those who know, work and protect the land every day.



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“I love seeing women achieve financial control and independence within their households. Together with my late husband, Don, I founded South Sea Orchids, an orchid business through which we developed an outgrower programme that trained village women to grow flowers and supply them to us. But our journey was never just about flowers. The basic premise of my idea was to empower local women through training, employment and business opportunities. Being a woman in agriculture means navigating what has historically been a male-dominated field. Accessing finance has been a massive hurdle for many of the women I have worked with. When I started training women farmers to run their own small florist businesses, they struggled to secure start-up loans because bankers simply trusted men more. I had to knock on many doors. The banks did not believe the women would repay their loans, but they proved them wrong: not only did they pay off their debts, but they went on to secure even more financing. Seeing what these women have been able to achieve continues to be a constant source of inspiration for me. Yet we still desperately need systems that improve women’s access to financial capital. Furthermore, there must be supportive frameworks for business and agricultural training specifically targeted at vulnerable groups — such as single mothers, women living with disabilities, and survivors of gender-based violence. That is what I am truly passionate about: the broader impact of our work. We are not just growing flowers or agricultural products; we are nurturing communities, preserving traditions, and paving the way for future generations. I want women entrepreneurs to know that the journey will certainly have its challenges, but with determination, passion and adaptability, they can build something truly remarkable. My name is Aileen Burness, I am Chair of the Pacific Farmer Organisations (PFO), and it is an honour to hold this responsibility during the 2026 United Nations International Year of the Woman Farmer.”



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The World Rural Forum has published a new study, carried out by Aliades, Coop. V., in which we analyse 12 public policies on family farming in Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Pacific. The aim is to draw lessons and make concrete recommendations that will contribute to a new generation of more innovative, inclusive and effective policies.

💡Why is this important? The current global landscape reinforces the need to innovate, design and update the political and legal frameworks that support the multidimensional nature of family farming.

Thus, the WRF is committed to promoting innovative public policies, built on dialogue between different sectors and stakeholders, which understand food systems as a whole.

The study highlights a series of key lessons:
✔️ The importance of coordinating financing, technical assistance and market access in a coordinated manner.
✔️ The need to design differentiated policies that cater to the diversity of producers.
✔️ The multiplier effect of innovation (financial, technological and social) on the impact of policies.
✔️ The decisive role of civil society organisations in providing legitimacy, local knowledge and the capacity to engage with rural communities.
🖊️The study highlights that Family Farming will remain key to food security, the agroecological transition and the climate resilience of local areas.

You can access the full study in English via 👉 https://bit.ly/3PukyUh
You can access to the summary of the study in English via 👉 https://bit.ly/4uBQbKQ

🇪🇺 With the support of the European Union.
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🌍 in Belém do Pará marked a milestone for family farming. A record delegation of 25 representatives from the World Rural Forum — half of them women — brought our voice to negotiation rooms, the Action Agenda, and side events. There was greater recognition of key issues: just transition, adaptation, climate finance, and gender.

However, important challenges remain. Food systems were not included in the central political declaration of COP30, and rural communities that depend most on a stable climate continue to face growing adaptation and climate finance needs with every season.

In this context, the World Rural Forum — with the support of the Forest and Farm Facility (FFF) — brought together family farming organisations from around the world. The online session “Road to COP31: Family Farming Participation in the June Climate Meetings (SB64) in Bonn” was moderated by Cristian Barrazueta, WRF Climate Change and Biodiversity Officer.

Together with the Brazilian COP30 Presidency, the Government of Australia as Presidency of the COP31 negotiations, and ActionAid as a member of the Climate Action Network, among others, we reflected on the progress achieved, defined key messages, and outlined priorities for the Bonn Climate Meetings ( ).

🤝 Bonn will lay the groundwork for and represents the first step towards Antalya. must be present with a united voice.

Join us on this journey.



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