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Dear Colleagues,

In case any of you might be interested in joining, I thought I would let you know that I will soon be moderating an FAO e-mail conference entitled "Tailoring rural advisory services to family farms". So, please feel free to subscribe and I also ask you to spread the word about the conference through your networks, social media and to any of your colleagues who might be interested in joining.

The conference is one of FAO's contributions to the 2014 International Year of Family Farming and is a follow up to two recent side events organized by FAO and the Global Forum on Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS) - in Buenos Aires on 26 September 2014 during the 5th GFRAS Annual Meeting and in Rome on 27 October 2014 during the Global Dialogue on Family Farming. Results of the two side events and the e-mail conference will feed into preparations of a document on policies to enhance rural advisory services for family farms that FAO and GFRAS are planning to publish in 2015.

More details are provided in the conference announcement below or at http://www.fao.org/nr/research-extension-systems/res-home/news/detail/en/c/264776/   

Best regards

John

John Ruane, PhD
Research and Extension Unit,
UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), 
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla,
00153 Rome, Italy
Web: http://www.fao.org/nr/research-extension-systems/en/ 

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Tailoring rural advisory services to family farms: FAO hosting an e-mail conference from 1 to 18 December 2014

The UN General Assembly declared 2014 to be the International Year of Family Farming and invited the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to facilitate implementation of the International Year, in collaboration with its partners. 

Among its other initiatives for the International Year, FAO has worked with the Global Forum on Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS) in setting the spotlight on rural advisory services for family farms. This has been done by jointly organizing two recent side events on the topic - in Buenos Aires on 26 September 2014 during the 5th GFRAS Annual Meeting and in Rome on 27 October 2014 during the Global Dialogue on Family Farming. To continue and expand the dialogue to a global audience, FAO is now hosting an e-mail conference on "Tailoring rural advisory services to family farms" which will allow participants to share their knowledge, ideas and experiences on this topic. The conference runs from 1 to 18 December 2014. Results of the two side events and the e-mail conference will feed into preparations of a document on policies to enhance rural advisory services for family farms that FAO and GFRAS are planning to publish in 2015.

The conference is open to everyone, is free and will be moderated. To subscribe to the conference, send an e-mail to [log in to unmask] with the following one line in the body of the message (leave the subject line blank):
subscribe RAS-L firstname lastname

Where firstname and lastname refer to the person's first and last name. For example, if the subscriber's name is John Smith, then the line should be:
subscribe RAS-L John Smith

A short background document is being prepared and will be sent to subscribers before the conference begins. We ask you to kindly spread the word about this conference to others, so that it reaches other people who might be interested in joining.

For more information, please contact [log in to unmask] or see http://www.fao.org/nr/research-extension-systems/res-home/news/detail/en/c/264776/ 

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