World Farmers’ Organisation, WFO, Annual Meeting, FAO Rome, 17-21 June 2024
June 17 - June 21
The World Farmers’ Organisation (WFO) is a member-based organization whose current members are 82 national Farmers’ Organisations from 56 countries, representing more than 550 million family farms around the World.
The highest moment in the institutional life of the WFO is its Annual Meeting, where more than 100 farmers and farmers representatives gather to discuss the internal agenda of the Organization, as well as its positioning vis a vis the global political discussion on agriculture and food systems.
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The next Annual Meeting is scheduled to take place from June 17th to June 21st, 2024, at the FAO Headquarters’ in Rome, Italy. The theme will be “Harvesting Tomorrow: Farmers shaping the Future of Agriculture and Food Production,” The main expected outcome is to highlight the role of farmers as fundamental contributors to the sustainable development of agriculture and food production. The indispensable role of farmers, with their innovative practices and extensive knowledge, is crucial in tackling global challenges such as food insecurity, climate change, and the preservation of biodiversity.
Annually gathering hundreds of family farmers, young and women farmer leaders, farmers’ organizations and agricultural cooperatives from across the globe, as well as other relevant stakeholders such as government representatives, multilateral institutions, academia, scientists, private sectors, civil society groups, and financial institutions, the WFO Annual Meeting is a vibrant and inclusive platform for forward-looking dialogues, knowledge exchange, and multi-stakeholder collaboration to advance global agri-food systems’ sustainability.
FAO and WFO have worked together since 2014, during the International Year of Family Farming. Their partnership was formalized in 2018 with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which was then renewed in January 2023. As part of this effort, FAO was in full support of WFO’s proposal to hold its annual meeting at FAO headquarters in Rome.
“We are grateful to FAO for this decision to open its doors to the World Farmers Organisation. It confirms the importance that we mutually attribute to our partnership, and it offers a chance to family farmers and their organized structures from all over the world to visit the heart of the global political dialogue on Food and Agriculture,” commented the WFO President Arnold Puech d’Alissac.
The WFO 2024 Annual Meeting represents an advantageous momentum for enhancing and promoting the centrality of farmers in designing successful pathways to achieve more sustainable agrifood systems for our people and our planet, to respond to global challenges, to share innovation, and to safeguard biodiversity.
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Further information on the programme and the registration link is available here: WFO Annual Meeting 2024 – 17-21 June 2024 (wfo2024annualmeeting.org).