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“I see myself as an agent of development, a seed guardian, and a fundamental pillar of food security despite the systemic barriers to accessing resources. I am a daughter of farmers: my mother was a farmer and seamstress, and my father a farmer and carpenter. My six brothers and sisters and I grew up in a healthy environment, eating fresh food from our parents’ farm. My journey in agriculture began out of necessity, but also from a desire to dignify work in the countryside. I love watching crops grow; this work connects me to the land, provides us with fresh food, and reduces our dependence on external sources. The principles of ecology and health inspire me to keep moving forward. I want to reduce dependence on chemical inputs and optimise water use, while learning more about how technological resources can help us improve, combining them with the knowledge and wisdom of traditional practices. The lack of opportunities in rural areas is driving young people away from the land. In addition, improving the situation of women is vital. Their labour rights must be formalised, awareness must be raised to reduce the gender gap, women must be guaranteed land ownership, and their access to credit must be facilitated. Sister, make your essential work visible as a food producer and guardian of biodiversity. True peace is also built by caring for the land. My name is Enriqueta Nse Mico Mamondo, I am an agricultural technician and a member of Propac- Plateforme Regionale des Organisations Paysannes d'Afrique Centrale. Let us walk together towards a safe and just future in this .”

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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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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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