Family Farmers Facing the Challenges of the Twenty-first

Family Farmers Facing the Challenges of the Twenty-first Century

Published in November 2001

Family farmers, who experience every day the degradation of their conditions of production and existence, and who are conscious that their very survival is at stake, have been committing themselves for almost 10 years in a reflection at international level with partners from NGOs, research organisms, etc.

This document is both a primary warning signal and a step within a process of reflection that must continue, until peasants, and all those conscious that family farming is essential to the balance of our societies, those conscious of the teachings of history, are heard: "a peasantry is easily destroyed; it is impossible to build again" (Louis Malassis).

Contact

Family farming, society and globalisation network (APM)
FPH, 38, rue Saint-Sabin, 75011 Paris.
http://www.apm-monde.com

Coordinated by ...

- Silvio Marzaroli

Farmer, union leader. He has participated in the Alianza Cono Sur. Co-facilitator of RIAD. Coordinator of the organizations of rural producers of Mercosur - National Commission of Rural Development

Documents

Topics Included

economic globalization . family farmers . governance . grassroots movement . local democracy . local development . world

Workgroup Papers

Conceiving Tomorrow’s City: What City Dwellers Say
Family Farmers Facing the Challenges of the Twenty-first Century
From the Conversion of the Arm Industries to the Search for Security
Land Policies and Land Reform
Law and Global Governance
Local Authorities or Local Facilitation
Principles of Governance for the Twenty-first Century
Redefining Global Governance to Meet the Challenges of the Twenty-first Century
Social Leaders in the Twenty-first Century: Challenges and Proposals
State and Development
The Military and Peace Building
The Territory, a Place of Relations: Toward a Community of Linkage and Sharing
The Troubled Waters of Traditional Fishing
Urban Violence