Desktop wallpapers 2014 - International Year of Family Farming

In resolution (A/RES/66/222 ), the General Assembly designated 2014 as the “International Year of Family Farming”, inviting the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to facilitate the observance of the International Year of Family Farming, in collaboration with governments, the World Food Programme, the United Nations Development Programme, the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research and other relevant organizations of the United Nations system, as well as relevant non-governmental organizations.

Family farming i includes all family-based agricultural activities that are related to various areas of rural development. Family farming is a way of classifying agricultural, forestry, fishing, pastoral and aquaculture production managed and operated by a family and that depends mainly on the family's workforce, including both women and men.

In both developing and developed countries, family farming is the predominant form of food production.

At the national level there are several key factors for the successful development of family farming such as agroecological conditions and territorial characteristics, the regulatory environment, access to markets, land and natural resources, technology and extension services, financing, demographic, economic and sociocultural conditions, or the availability of specialized education, among others.

Family farming has an important socioeconomic, environmental and cultural role.