The United Nations has decided to devote 2014 to family farming. This type of agriculture accounts for the vast majority of farming systems worldwide: it involves some 2.6 billion people, or almost 40% of the world's population, on 500 million farms. This topic has long been a priority for CIRAD, for which people - rural inhabitants and farmers - are a major priority, and which launched a "family farming and globalization" programme as long ago as 1998. In 2014, the organization's teams will be making expert contributions on both the national and international stage.
via CIRAD - Actualités / News http://www.cirad.fr/news/all-news-items/articles/2013/institutionnel/family-farming-a-hot-topic-for-the-un-and-cirad-in-2014
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