International IDEA, Yale Divinity, Grace Initiative Global

AGRICULTURE, FARMING AND FOOD SECURITY

& PEACEFUL SOCIETIES

Agriculture, Farming and Food Security

Peaceful and Inclusive Communities

UN Headquarters: Conference Room 8 

3 October 2019 - 10:00 am to 1:00 pm 

In the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development[1]the international community set out to transform our world by tackling multiple challenges through holistic and synergistic mechanisms to ensure well‐being, economic prosperity, and environmental protection. Agriculture and sustainable farming represents an integral component for the global community to realize the 2030 Agenda’s interrelated transformational goals. 

In the Secretary-General’s report on Agriculture, Food Security and Nutrition noted that most of the world’s 570 million farms are small and family-run; with family farms cultivating about 75% of the world’s agricultural land.[2] Also, the  UN Decade of Family Farming (2019–2028) calls for Governments to develop public policies and investments to support family farming from a holistic perspective, to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and “To Leave No One Behind.”