Evaluating the viability of family farming in Maragondon, Cavite

Recognizing the role that small family farms contribute to ensuring global food security, improving nutrition, eradicating poverty, ending hunger, conserving biodiversity, achieving environmental sustainability, and helping in addressing migration, the United Nations General Assembly in 2017 declared 2019 to 2028 as the Decade of Family Farming. This resolution aims to promote projects and policies that will reposition family farming at the center of agricultural, environmental, and social policies in national agenda and to achieve a more equitable balanced development; recognize the important roles of women and young farmers and push for their empowerment as a necessary condition and consistent with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (FAO, 2015). IIRR continues to demonstrate the validity of the family farm approach as it worked with small family farmers in the Philippines, particularly in the town of Maragondon in Cavite Province.