34th World Food Day Observance in Kathmandu, 2014
THEME
Family Farming: “Feeding the World, Caring for the Earth” to stress the vast potential family farmers have to eradicate hunger and preserve natural resources
Presentation on : Urban Agriculture: Family Farming for Food Security
A presentation made in World food day in Kathmandu, 2014_ rajendra p sharma
1. Urban Agriculture: Family Farming for Food Security
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Rajendra P Sharma
THEME
Family Farming: “Feeding the World,
Caring for the Earth” to stress the vast
potential family farmers have to eradicate
hunger and preserve natural resources
Kathmandu, Nepal, 2014
2. founded in 1943 during the UN Conference on Food and
Agriculture
United Nations General Assembly Resolution: 35/70
Core objectives:
to raise public awareness
focus attention on food security
disseminate information
mobilize public opinion and funds in favor of the global fight
against hunger
FAO marks World Food Day each year on 16 October, the day on
which theOrganization was founded in 1945.
World Food Day was first held on 16 Oct 1981.
Family Farming is the focus of World
Food Day 2014. 2
3. Family farming includes
all family-based agricultural activities, and it is linked
to several areas of the rural and urban 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
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What is family farming?
4. Why is family farming
important?
Family farming has an important socio-economic,
environmental and cultural role.
linked to world food security.
preserves traditional food products
contributes to balanced diet and safeguarding the
agro-biodiversity and sustainable use of natural
resources.
4 an opportunity to boost local economies
5. Family Farming is the predominant form of
agriculture both in rural and urban setting,
developed and developing countries
Family farmers are an important part of the
solution for a world free from poverty and
hunger
Family Farmers can deploy their potential
productivity when the appropriate pro-family
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Main messages
8. Nepal: Overview of the situation
Nepal: Land locked, mountainous and least developed
26.6 million population
13th poorest country in the world
Economy: natural resources (Uneven distribution
and Use)
Unemployment rates are highest among people
just out of college
38.8 % of the population are either unemployed or
underemployed
15-29 years young people: 6.131 million people
(26.2 % of total population of which 11.4 % are out
of work)
9. Situation
Agriculture: small holder, traditional and
subsistence farming
Fast growing but haphazard urbanization
58 municipality, New 72, recommended 66 and more
coming up
Small towns
Market centers
Urban bound migration left rural land abandoned
Small land holding: A total of 34 lakhs people holds
less than 0.5 Hector
Climate change and its impact: severe weather
events
10. Food Security: Scenario
3 global parameters: 79/105 countries, GFSI 2012
34 districts food deficit (MoAD 2013)
2/3 suffers from food insecurity each year
Currently 3.7 million people are food insecure
People from rural and remote areas are dependent
on external and emergency food supply
The continued food insecurity and lack of
employment opportunities
Leading out migration of youth !!
11. Food Security: policies
Agriculture Prospective Plan, 1995
National Agricultural Policy, 2004
Agribusiness Promotion Policy, 2007
10th five year plan; 11st three year plan
National Agriculture Sector Development Priority
Plan, 2011-2015
Country Investment Plan
Agriculture Development Strategy, 2015-2035
(Upcoming)
12. Youth Prospective
Young people are future and future generations
of farmers
Young are adept at spreading new habit, raising
awareness and advocates for change
To meet present growing population and future
projected population; food security =
sustainable agriculture practices
Here comes the role of YOUTH
13. Sustainable Agro Practices through
Family Farming
Change in food habit
Demand based production
Cash cropping
Environment friendly farming
Lease hold farming
Product diversification
Sustainable crop management practices
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Different name but same purpose!!
(Family, Kitchen garden, Terrace garden, Lease
Greeneri
es
hold farming etc.)
Use of free
time
Family
Farming
Fresh
Nutrients
Lovely
Aesthetic
atmosph
ere
Less
Pollutio
n
Income
Generati
on
Free Time or Full Time ? Choice is ours !!
15. Rural Urban Transformations
Agricultural land reduction
Multifunctional use versus
specialized use
Land abandonment versus
revitalization
Systematize urban agriculture
Use of open space, home
garden, roof tops, terrace etc
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16. Revitalisation of both Rural and Urban
Today
Patchworks of nucleus and
plasma, clusters?
Abandonment of rural
areas
Smaller numerous multi-functional
systems of activity linked to local
markets of diversified products
Fewer large agro-industrial
systems of activity linked to
global markets of
standardised products
Wealth of
family farms
Urban farming
Marginalizati
on
Concentration
of production
Agro-Practice
17. Future
Presen
t
COMPLICA
TED
Cause and effect are
separated in time and
space and can be
researched
Analyze/Guideline
COMPLEX
emergent
practice
Uncertainty Certainty
s
good
practice
The cause-effect
relationship does not
repeat and is
unpredictable
Experiment/Principle
s
CAHOTIC
No cause-effect
relationship can
be observed
Decide/Vision
new
practice
SIMPLE
The cause-effect
relationship is
repeatable
Act/rules
best
practice
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Adapted from Cynefin and D. Snowden 7