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

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This is from Violet Nyando, again. 



Here is my contribution on Question 4.7 (How can family farmers be best involved in formulating policies relevant to rural advisory services for family farms?).



Policy formulation processes are important in any development plans as they provide guidance and frameworks against which investments can be directed and monitored. Farmers are at the core of agricultural based value chains and for their services and their contribution to be sustained, they need to be consulted as far as important key decision making processes are concerned. Policies being critical decisions in any given economy, farmers need to be involved in agricultural based policy making processes with regard to rural advisory services. 



The state and non-state actors, including researchers, educationists, agribusiness entrepreneurs and other relevant institutions, should be facilitated to participate in these forums together with farmers to discuss and deliberate on pertinent issues concerning agriculture. Farmers particularly can contribute by giving their written positions to policy makers or through actual participation in policy making processes at all levels. Through their groups, farmers can generate issues affecting their agricultural productivity. Once these issues have been consolidated, the farmers can be guided to have them validated through conducting action research to qualify the issues. Once the issues have been qualified, then farmers can be guided to develop policy positions in form of proposals that they can now present to the relevant authorities. These issues can also be presented directly by farmers to the relevant authorities or committees through their nominated representatives in these forums.



Farmers can also be facilitated to initiate new policies especially those that are new with regard to the new value chains they are engaging in. Based on the issues they have raised, a policy expert can draft the zero draft policy for sharing with the larger community and also for sharing with other stakeholders for their inputs to improve it.  



Nyando V. Violet,

Kenya National Farmers' Federation,

P.O Box 43148-00100,

Nairobi

Kenya

Tel: +254-20-21866337/2180608, +254-723-903957

Fax: +254-20-2180687

Office Email:farmers (at) kenaff.org

Mobile: +254-720 801429, +254-736-550510

Email: nyandov (at) yahoo.com, nyandov (at) gmail.com, nyandoviolet (at) kenaff.org



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