In the words of Jacques Diouf, the General Director of (FAO), "the time has come to re-launch farming, and the international Community should not squander the opportunity".

For our organisations, coordinated by WRF, the celebration of an International Year dedicated to family farming would create a unique opportunity to develop means, which would assure in the medium and long term, a prosperous and sustainable family agriculture development and, as a result, in the rural areas on all the continents, especially, in the developing countries.