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Moderated conference on rural advisory services for family farms: 1-18 December 2014

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This is Botir Dosov again, from the Central Asia and the Caucasus (CAC) region.

My second contribution for this email conference is related to the following questions in the conference background document:
Question 4.4 Are there regional specificities regarding rural advisory services for family farms? And 
Question 4.6 What strategies are needed at the national/state level to enhance rural advisory services for family farms?

1. Rural advisory services (RAS) tailored for family farms in the CAC region should be focused on smallholders and households, i.e. family farms which are subsistence or near-subsistence smallholders who produce essentially for their own consumption and have little potential to generate a surplus for the market. Those family farms are small in size, but have essential contribution to food security and nutrition at the national level as they are producing the biggest part of food products: milk, meat, poultry, eggs, fruits and vegetable at the country level. (Question 4.4)

2. Sustainable RAS for family farms should be pluralistic and linking different social actors and institutions: farmers, researchers, education and training centers, policy and decision makers, NGOs and other sectors' players at local, district, province, national levels, and the higher level at which the RAS system is considered the more diversity institutions have to involved in pluralistic RAS system. (Questions 4.4. and 4.6)

3. Enhancing evidence-based knowledge for family farms and developing better understanding of the trade-offs involved in using different policy mechanisms and identifying those that are more effective under existing institutional and social settings. (Question 4.6)

4. Setting up operational knowledge platforms to provide best traditional knowledge and updated information about family farming practices accompanied by clear strategy to assure sustainability and link with worldwide resources. (Question 4.6)

5. Downstreaming the management of natural resources based on congruent decision by raising awareness on sustainable use of natural resources through the dissemination of information about technologies, and providing training and advice to smallholders, households, farmers, water and land users, government bodies at local, district and province, national regional levels. (Question 4.4)

6. Gender mainstreaming to RAS through deeper and integrated understanding of gender in order to be able to use gender as a tool for further work in rural communities on improving well-being and increasing income of rural families. (Questions 4.4 and 4.6)

7. While tailoring RAS for family farms, to ensure that those RAS should be responsive to current and emerging risks: climate change, population, greedy use of natural resources, environment pollution, sanitary and health threats etc. (Question 4.6).

Botir Dosov, PhD
Strategic Innovation Platform Coordinator 
CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Systems in Central Asia 
Technical Adviser 
Central Asia and the Caucasus Association of Agricultural Research Institutions (CACAARI) 
6, Osiyo Street, 
P.O. Box 4375, 
Tashkent, 100000, 
Uzbekistan
Tel: (+998 71) 2372130/69
Fax: (+998 71) 1207125
Mobile: (+998 98) 128 63 22
e-mail: dosov.b (at) gmail.com

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