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Call for experiences in the use and application of three sets of CFS policy recommendations on smallholder agriculture in the context of food security and nutrition

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Please use this submission form to share your experience in the use and application of three interconnected sets of CFS policy recommendations on smallholder agriculture in the context of food security and nutrition.

For the necessary background and guidance, please refer to the topic note:http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/activities/discussions/CFS-smallholders-fsn.

You can upload the completed form totheFSN Forum (www.fao.org/fsnforum) or send it via email to fsn-moderator@fao.org.

Title of your submission* Promoting Local Innovation and Agroecological Farming

Geographical coverageIndicate if your submission covers several levels, e.g. national level and regional level

(e.g. national, regional if several countries of the same region or/ and global if several countries in more than one region)

It is at Sub National Level

Country(ies)/ Region(s) covered by your submission

(e.g. Kenya, Tanzania and Malawi)

Uganda

Contact person Name: Kaganga JohnEmail address: johnkaganga@gmail.com

Affiliation (indicate your affiliation)

Government

UN organization

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YES:NGO known as Kikandwa Environmental Association (KEA)Private Sector

Academia

Donor

Other …………………………………………………………

*Please choose a title for your submission, referring e.g. to your organization or/ and geographical coverage

If the information provided in your submission results from a multistakeholder consultation, please also fill the table in annex.

(i) Awareness of CFS policy recommendations

- How have you heard of these policy recommendations (e.g. CFS meeting or event, internet, colleagues, government, civil society organization)?

Heard from Civil Society Organization and Internet

- Have you taken any actions to make these policy recommendations known to colleagues or other CFS stakeholders (Please tick the answer below)? Yes

If yes, please explain:

Through my organization, Kikandwa Environmental Association (KEA) and other networks where we are members, organized awareness creation meeting and trainings to member organization, local leaders and farmers on CFS Policy recommendations.

- What would you recommend to CFS member states, Rome-based Agencies or/ and other stakeholders to make CFS policy products more widely known? Please explain:

I recommend CFS member states, Rome-based to work so closely with grass root stakeholders especially smallholder farmers and their organizations and all those stakeholders in the whole value chain. Invite farmer representative in CFS meeting.CFS Visit farmers at grass root and see what they are doing so that they can learn and understand CFS at the same time CFS learn from them.

(ii) Use of the three sets of policy recommendations

- Which set(s) of policy recommendations have been used at sub-national, national, regional or/ and global level to support smallholder agriculture (please tick the answer below)?

[If these policy recommendations have not been used, please go directly to question (xi)]

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- For each set that has been used, please indicate for which main purpose(s) it has been used

(e.g training; awareness raising; capacity development; development/ assessment of projects, national strategies, plans of action, legislative or policy framework; investments by national governments or international financial institutions in favour of smallholders; development of finance proposals that are more favourable to small-scale producers; formulation and implementation of specific national strategies in favour of smallholder agriculture; other)

YES Set 1:Investing in Smallholder Agriculture for Food Security and Nutrition (Used)

Main purposes were:

Promoted local knowledge to increase food security, adapt and mitigate climate change, control soil erosion, water conservation, maintain and clean local community murrum roads in the area of intervention.

YES Set 2: Connecting Smallholders to Markets (Used)Main purpose were:

To enhance food security and nutrition, and reduce smallholder poverty by using and sharing indigenous knowledge using farmer field school (FFS) and value addition capacity building for market and marketing.

YES Set 3: Sustainable Agricultural Development for Food Security and Nutrition: What Roles for Livestock?

Main purpose were:

To promote agroecology and reducing the use of artificial fertilizers and pesticide, Livestock play great role by completing the cycle of farming, crop feed from manure from the livestock and livestock feed on crops grown, this means there is no need of going for artificial fertilizer which is not supported by agroecology system

- Which policy recommendations were found particularly useful to support smallholders and their food and nutrition security? Please explain:

All policies were useful because smallholder farmers became food and nutrition secure hence improved their livelihood. Smallholder farmers invest in livestock and crop farming as well as accessing market.

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(iii) Present and expected benefits for smallholders

Indicate the results obtained/ expected in the short term and in the medium-to-long term, with quantitative indications where feasible (i.e. estimate of the number of smallholders that have been or are expected to be affected)

How have smallholders benefitted (or are expected to benefit) from the use of these policy recommendations for food security and nutrition in the short and medium to long-term? How have they contributed to the progressive realization of the right to food? (please answer in the two boxes below)

Results in the short term (qualitative and quantitative):

(In addition to providing a qualitative assessment, please indicate where feasible the number of smallholders that have been directly involved in activities, e.g. six training involving a total of 250 people)

Smallholders gain from shorter, medium to long term because their system of agroecological farming being used is sustainable.

20 training and sensitization workshop, more than 2000 smallholder farmers benefited

Results in the medium to long term (qualitative and quantitative):

(In addition to providing a qualitative assessment, please indicate where feasible the number of smallholders that have been or are expected to be indirectly affected by activities, e.g. training leading to development of local plan of action expected to affect 1,000 smallholders)

Indirectly, the interventions made will benefit more than 5000 stakeholders, farmers and non-farmers inclusive.

Community members have learnt to diagnose and analyze their problems and look for solution without waiting for external support

(vi) Present and expected benefits for female smallholders

- Have any specific actions been taken (in line with these policy recommendations) topromote the realization of women’s empowerment, women’s rights and gender equality in the context of smallholder agriculture? Please explain:

More 60% of our interventions have been targeting women empowerment, women’s rights and gender equality which has been partially realized.

- How have female smallholders benefitted (or are expected to benefit) from these actions in terms of food security and nutrition and the progressive realization of the right to food? Please explain:

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Female smallholders benefited in the interventions we carried out in our area in terms of food security and nutrition because they learnt to grow and feed on fruits and green vegetative and other type of food crops and sell excess to others to buy other basic needs basing on the policies of CFS.

(vii) Present and expected benefits for the youth

- Have any specific actions been taken (in line with these policy recommendations) to promote the involvement of youth in agriculture and related activities in the context of smallholder agriculture? Please explain:

Female and male youth have been involved in all interventions although some have been not so active as old females but those who have been active benefited and have learnt a lot .

- How have youth benefitted (or are expected to benefit) from these actions in terms of food security and nutrition and the progressive realization of the right to food of youth? Please explain:

Youth mind set have started changing to love farming and take farming as business and a job rather that migrating to the urban centers to look for jobs which in many cases do not get them.

(viii) Contribution of the use of these policy recommendations to SDGs

- How has the use of these policy recommendations contributed (or is expected to contribute) to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in particular SDGs 1 & 2 and some of the SDGs targeted in the 2019 review, and to fostering policy coherence? (please tick the answer):

-YES: SDG 1 (no poverty)

Please explain:

Many smallholder farmers have improved their farming methods through adoption of CFS Policy recommendations, have enough balanced diet food for home consumption and for sale.

YES: SDG 2 (zero hunger)Please explain:

Following CFS Policy recommendations, many smallholders have enough food to eat throughout the year and always meet their other basic needs.

☐ SDG 8 (decent work and economic growth)Please explain:

☐ SDG 10 (reduced inequalities)

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Please explain:

YES: SDG 13 (climate action) Please explain:

By applying agroecology practices and methods, farmer can adapt to climate change as well as mitigation measures by using scientific and local knowledge, eg; nature based conservation, soil and water conservation through mulching using dead stock or live mulching practices using plants which fixes nutrients like nitrogen into the soil etc.

(ix) Relevance and expected benefits of the use of these policy recommendations to the UN Decade of Family Farming and the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition

- How could these policy recommendations contribute to the UN Decade of Family Farming or (further) contribute to the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition for improving the food security and nutrition of smallholders? Please explain:

Based on successful practitioners in the field and in trade in our area of intervention plus calls of world leaders in agriculture including FAO and the African Union, we believe that agroecology/ecological organic food production systems are the true future of food systems. These systems are very knowledge intensive and take advantage of both traditional knowledge and modern science through collaboration between farmers and researchers based on mutual respect. They can deliver not only economic objectives, but also on environmental, social, cultural, nutritional and health objectives, therefore, these policy recommendations contribute to the UN Decade of Family Farming and UN Decade of Action on Nutrition for improving the food security and nutrition of smallholders.

(x) Catalysts and constraints

What were the key catalysts that influenced positively the use of these policy recommendations for improving the food security and nutrition of smallholders?

CFS recognition, encouragement and giving a platform for stakeholders to share their experiences on smallholder development across the world on CFS recommendations such as “Connecting Smallholders to Market” “Investing in smallholders Agriculture for Food Security and Nutrition” etc are among the key catalysts that influence positively the use of these policy recommendations for improving the food security and nutrition of smallholders.

What were the main constraints and challenges in using these CFS policy recommendations for improving the food security and nutrition smallholders?

As already mentioned in my recommendation above, there is

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still a gap between CFS member states, Rome-based and stakeholders, CFS do not work so closely with grass root stakeholders especially smallholder farmers and their organizations and stakeholders in the value chain.CFS rarely invite farmer representative in CFS meetings. CFS rarely visit farmers at grass root and see what they are doing to share challenges and experiences with them face to face.

(xi) Good practices - What good practices would you recommend for successful use of these policy recommendations?

-We have many good practices we use to achieve our goal through promoting local innovation, participatory innovation development and agroecology to mention but a few; Nature Based Conservation (Half+Half 1000 Acre Community Forest Project); Community road water harvesting, soil conservation and erosion control, water management, community road cleaning and maintenance through self-help (volunteerism) etc.

(xii) Lessons learned - Do you have any suggestions to make to CFS in order to enhance the use of these policy recommendations for improving the food security and nutrition of smallholders?

Through intensive capacity building, sensitization and awareness creation from high levels to grass root level and adequate financing, CFS policy recommendations can be easily adopted and can effectively and efficiently work as driver to improve the food security and nutrition of smallholder locally and globally.

(xiii) Potential use of the policy recommendations for improving the food security and nutrition of smallholders

- If these policy recommendations have not been used (or not sufficiently used), how could they be (further) used in the future for improving the food security and nutrition of smallholders, advancing the progressive realization of the right to food, achieving SDGs or/ and fostering policy coherence? Please explain:

- What actions could be taken (in line with these policy recommendations) to promote the realization of women’s

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empowerment, women’s rights and gender equality in the context of smallholder agriculture? Please explain:

Actions should be taken through capacity building, financing and information dissemination at different levels to different category of stakeholders.

- What actions could be taken (in line with these policy recommendations) to promote the involvement of youth in agriculture and related activities in the context of smallholder agriculture? Please explain:

Action need to be taken to promote the involvement of youth in agriculture and related activities in the context of smallholder agriculture are; First of all inspire them to like farming and look at it as a business, using people like us who are change agents to create passionate in them, create awareness, feed them with proper information and give them financial support after training them in farming and skill development.

(xiv) Link to additional information www.kikandwaenvironmentalassociation.org

Annex: to be filled if the information provided results from a multi-stakeholder consultation

Date of the multistakeholder eventLocation of the eventWhich groups of stakeholders participated in theevent?

Government

UN organization

Civil Society / NGO

Private Sector

Academia

Donor

Other …………………………………………………………………Who organized the event?

Government

UN organization

Civil Society / NGO

Private Sector

Academia

Donor

Other …………………………………………………………………

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