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      • Step 1: Creating and enhancing awareness on the importance of Farmers' Rights
      • Step 2: Ensuring farmers' participation in the implementation process
      • Step 3: Developing a national consultative process, joining forces, pooling resources
      • Step 4: Establishing an institutional framework for implementation
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      Step 3: Developing a national consultative process, joining forces, pooling resources

      Whereas steps 1 and 2 are concerned with the foundation for the implementation process, this third step describes how a broad-based national consultative process can be designed for the implementation of Farmers' Rights. It is based on the workshop module developed for this purpose.

      Published: 13.09.2022
      - Last updated: 15.12.2022

      • Photo: Jan Kroon / Pexels

        Consultative process as dialogue – the foundation

        From history we know how discussions on Farmers' Rights have caused heated debates and conflicts rather than progress in the implementation of these rights. After decades of conflicts and mounting barriers against the realization of Farmers' Rights, it is now vital to move beyond the earlier controversies, build bridges and join forces across sectors to make Farmers' Rights a reality.

      • Photo: Viviana Meixner / FNI

        Participants for national consultative processes

        A broad based consultative process should ensure participation from all central stakeholder groups, from all regions of the country, from different ethnic groups (if relevant), from men and women.

      • Photo: Regine Andersen / FNI

        Design of national consultative processes

        A good starting point for a national consultative process is creating or enhancing awareness on the importance of Farmers' Rights. The more operational parts of the consultative process can be designed as a series of workshops/seminars leading towards a framework for implementation of Farmers' Rights, and if required, monitoring such implementation.

      • Photo: Regine Andersen / FNI

        Contents of national consultative processes

        Here, possible contents of a core workshop on the design of a national framework for implementation of Farmers' Rights are outlined. This is based on the workshop module prepared for that purpose, and further details can be found there. The outline below may however also serve as points of inspiration to develop an own workshop program, or program for the workshop series.

      • Photo: Miguel Á. Padriñán / Pexels

        Joining forces and pooling resources

        In most countries of the world institutions and people involved in Farmers' Rights are few and resources scarce. Thus, joining forces and pooling resources for the realization of Farmers' Rights are vital. This means that all stakeholders are invited to join forces and pool resources, including stakeholders that have traditionally not been thought of as allies in terms of Farmers' Rights.

      How to realize Farmers' Rights

      • 1. Options for recognition of farmers contributions
      • 2. Options for financial contributions
      • 3. Options for encouraging income-generating activities
      • 4. Options for documentation of PGRFA
      • 5. Options for in-situ on farm management of PGRFA
      • 6. Options for farmers’ access to crop diversity (CSOs etc.)
      • 7. Options for participatory research on PGRFA
      • 8. Options for farmers’ participation in decision making
      • 9. Options for training, capacity and awareness development
      • 10. Options for legal measures to implement Farmers’ Rights
      • 11. Options for other measures/practices
      • Stepwise approach
        • Step 1: Creating and enhancing awareness on the importance of Farmers' Rights
        • Step 2: Ensuring farmers' participation in the implementation process
        • Step 3: Developing a national consultative process, joining forces, pooling resources
        • Step 4: Establishing an institutional framework for implementation
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