Participatory capacity building
Description
The StateWide Small Farm Program is an active participatory capacity building program designed to provide participatory education, hands-on training, and technical assistance to underserved farming populations and their communities in the areas of alternative agriculture systems-organic farming systems, alternative market development, sustainable food systems, and sustainable living to improve quality of life, well-being, and small-scale farm sustainability.<br />
We work together with underserved farming populations to identify needs, priorities, and provide solutions through strategies that enable access, gaining knowledge, and solution-ownership, encouraging a thriving sustainable development; Partner-collaborators assist in promoting organic farming systems and capacity building strategies that meet participant- identified needs and potential solutions (i.e. education/training benefits of organic agriculture, nutrition, food sovereignty, access to land, value-added markets, agricultural research and extension, etc.)
The StateWide Small Farm Program is an active participatory capacity building program designed to provide participatory education, hands-on training, and technical assistance to underserved farming populations and their communities. Capacity-building and technology transfer takes place on-farmers' farms and at community sites. Generally, participants take ownership in the implementation of the capacity building session due to participation in development and critical relevancy of knowledge, hands-on training, technical assistance- the message to enhance their livelihoods. The knowledge and gained training/technical assistance belongs to the farmers and their communities, and enables sustainable food systems, sustainable organic agriculture and enables steps toward ending hunger.
Participatory organic farming systems promote building healthy soils, healthy environments and supports resilient agricultural practices and animal care systems that maintain the ecosystem and adapt to extremes in climate conditions. Organic farming systems support the care and role of underserved farming populations, small-scale farmers, farm workers as critical solutions in their communities - to building sustainable food systems, food sovereignty, and enabling local access to nutritious good food. This initiative is governed through participatory capacity building efforts of the StateWide Small Farm Program, small farmers and partner collaborators.
SDGS & Targets
Goal 2
End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
2.1
By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round
2.1.1
Prevalence of undernourishment
2.1.2
Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity in the population, based on the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES)
2.2
By 2030, end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons
2.2.1
Prevalence of stunting (height for age <-2 standard deviation from the median of the World Health Organization (WHO) Child Growth Standards) among children under 5 years of age
2.2.2
Prevalence of malnutrition (weight for height >+2 or <-2 standard deviation from the median of the WHO Child Growth Standards) among children under 5 years of age, by type (wasting and overweight)
2.2.3
Prevalence of anaemia in women aged 15 to 49 years, by pregnancy status (percentage)
2.3
2.3.1
Volume of production per labour unit by classes of farming/pastoral/forestry enterprise size
2.3.2
Average income of small-scale food producers, by sex and indigenous status
2.4
By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality
2.4.1
Proportion of agricultural area under productive and sustainable agriculture
2.5
By 2020, maintain the genetic diversity of seeds, cultivated plants and farmed and domesticated animals and their related wild species, including through soundly managed and diversified seed and plant banks at the national, regional and international levels, and promote access to and fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge, as internationally agreed
2.5.1
Number of (a) plant and (b) animal genetic resources for food and agriculture secured in either medium- or long-term conservation facilities
2.5.2
Proportion of local breeds classified as being at risk of extinction
2.a
2.a.1
The agriculture orientation index for government expenditures
2.a.2
Total official flows (official development assistance plus other official flows) to the agriculture sector
2.b
Correct and prevent trade restrictions and distortions in world agricultural markets, including through the parallel elimination of all forms of agricultural export subsidies and all export measures with equivalent effect, in accordance with the mandate of the Doha Development Round
2.b.1
Agricultural export subsidies
2.c
Adopt measures to ensure the proper functioning of food commodity markets and their derivatives and facilitate timely access to market information, including on food reserves, in order to help limit extreme food price volatility
2.c.1
Indicator of food price anomalies
SDG 14 targets covered
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Resources mobilized
Partnership Progress
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| Partnership Progress 2019-07-30 | On track |
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Jennifer Taylor, Coordinator Small Farm Programs