 Good morning, my name is Marina Zahadal, may you will be very welcome to this first session of the exchange of experiences on family agriculture registries, I'd like to remind you that we have simultaneous interpretation into Spanish, English, French, Arabic and Portuguese, the cycle of exchanges of family agriculture records seeks to promote cooperation on the exchange of experiences with reference to the pillars of the plan of action, the global plan of action of the decade on family agriculture and also the priorities of Latin America and the Caribbean stated in the Santiago de Chile Charter of 1922. This seeks to share lessons learned and challenges found in the development of family agriculture registries and its link with the public policies aimed at strengthening the sector throughout the world. This event that we're holding today is conducted by the technical regional platform on family agriculture managed by the regional office of the FAO for Latin America and the Caribbean with the support of the unit of participation of family agriculture and parliamentary units in our office and they are coordinators. The coordinators are the secretariat for the Agricultural Council Central American Agricultural Council SECAF and the Specialized Meeting of Family Agriculture of Mercosur Rehaf through the pro-temporary chair of Brazil and the National Coordination of the Ministry of Agricultural Development and Family Agriculture. We would like to offer the floor to the regional office of the FAO for Latin America and the Caribbean. Please sir, you have the floor. Thank you, Maria Ignacia. Good afternoon, good evening depending on where you are. I would like to truly thank those that are connected to accompany the cycle of exchanges and as mentioned this activity is falls within the framework of the regional technical framework for family agriculture which is a global FAO initiative proposed by the General Secretary in order to promote the exchange of experiences between regions and to benefit from the fact that we are practically a global organization. The platform for family agriculture falls within the responsibility of our regional office for Latin America and the Caribbean and thus it acknowledges the leadership of the region in terms of these issues. This also has to do with cooperation which facilitates the government, farmers, the scientific communities, the private sector, all those that may be interested in the rural world. A space in order to enter into a dialogue about innovating tools and concrete experiences that may strengthen family agriculture throughout the world, promoting techniques and institutions and this also enables us to focus our efforts for the implementation on the decade of the United Nations, on family agriculture, linking its different pillars, acknowledging the voices and the knowledge of government, of organizations, of academia and of all other productive sectors involved in these aspects. In order to promote an inclusive, sustainable and resilient agenda, what is fundamental there is to highlight the role of family agriculture. It is fundamental for countries to develop differentiated actions that enable us to strengthen the sector, focusing, targeting actions that promote the innovating capability of family agriculture and also guaranteeing the necessary conditions and political and economic conditions. The registries of family agriculture that we will be discussing today have emerged as a tool that is absolutely fundamental in order to link the government strategy so with the real needs of the sector. It is via these registries and this is something that we have learned in the region that we are able to coordinate differentiated public policies to make them more efficient and much more relevant in order to comprehensively cater for the needs and the challenges faced by family agriculture. This first cycle will emphasize different strategies and tools that were developed for this purpose and for that reason I would like to sincerely thank the executive, the secretary of the Central American Agricultural Council represented by Ricardo Montero, our friend whom I would like to warmly greet and also the pro-temporary chair of the Mercosura entity represented by Vivienne Divori Dalmeida who is director of the Innovation Department for Family Agriculture and Agroecological Transition of the Ministry of Agriculture and Family Agriculture Ministry of Brazil that coordinates, that are coordinating this cycle with us. Thank you very much for your permanent support Ricardo for all these activities and I would also like to thank the panelists that are here with us today. My friend Jose Bernardo Gonzalez, National Director of Rural Development in the Ministry of Agriculture of the Agriculture Ministry of Panama and Minister Magdak, Minister of Agriculture of Croatia. Thank you for your time, for your interest, for your commitment, for your willingness to share your experiences and your reflections and this process which involves the development of institutional frameworks for family agriculture. This is a space that belongs to us all and the idea is to contribute to the discussion to share your doubts, ideas and experiences during the different moments of activities via the chat or via the debate that we will be holding at the end. So I wish you a very fruitful event so that we can together build the tools that enable us to strengthen the family agriculture in our region. Thank you very much and may we have an excellent session. Thank you Luis for your welcome remarks now. Ricardo Montero López is a technical regional coordinator of Seacac. Thank you and good morning from San Jose Costa Rica. Thank you for the invitation. Thank you for having us with the Executive Secretary of the Seacac. We've been working as part of the Central American Strategy for Rural Territorial Development in the promotion of a family agriculture along the lines of Luis's reference. In 2014 we joined this effort and we began working, building and approving a family agriculture policy for the region. We are part of the integration system with eight countries along with eight countries and we have been following these processes, these decades of family agriculture. In 2012 the Board of Ministries approved a sub-regional plan for family agriculture that is the framework for the various actions to strengthen family agriculture. FAO has been an ally of these processes with technical financial support which of course is an advantage of the family agricultural organizations in the region allowing us to carry out analysis of the regulatory framework. We know eight countries in the region have a coordinating or decision making agencies for family agriculture which is good even some of the presidential level. At least five countries have technical boards, regional agencies or department agencies but we still have lots to do, budgets, monitoring, still something that we have to work on. We've made progress in characterizing the rural SMEs in family agriculture, statistical information for decision making, criteria for indicators of rural youth, gender and decision making on the developments including youth and women in strengthening their capabilities and skills to work efficiently and effectively. In this type of venue which are very important, having them join a digital transformation financial training so that they can leverage markets and have them as part of agri-food assistance. It's only fair for these family agricultural organizations can join in implementation of public policies, regulatory frameworks and implementing the registries as a source of information for linking organizations with the public procurement. It's really important to considering Panama as one of the SICA regions which we'll learn about their experience which we've shared in the region. Really, once again I'd like to thank for the opportunity. You have an ally here in the region. We've used exchanges with the RIA. This is a two-way relationship. We have done this not only in the virtual realm but also outside to learn some of the experiences and through FAO with us. You can join us in this effort which is important for the region and for all of us working in promoting family agriculture. Once again, thank you and let's have a great success. A successful meeting. Thank you Ricardo for your kind opening remarks. Remember that we have simultaneous interpretation in Spanish, English, French, Portuguese and Arabic. We have people from the various regions around the world. Finally, I have a warm welcome from Viva Nivorio de Almeida. She's Director of the Innovation for Family Production and Ecological Transition from Brazil. Thank you very much. Let me greet all of you today in the session. For us it's a pleasure to contribute to this strategy. Family agriculture for us, it's clear. We know what's happening. We are close to it. We know these work has to be done for the production of food, not only in Brazil but around the world. In S&SAP and in our department, we've been working on strategies so as to move forward in the regulation of family agriculture. Progress has been made in registries, registries of family agriculture. And this has been, thanks to the work done with the various social organizations. This is a way of being part of the process. Having these registries, having these database is so important when we think of public policies allowing for the strengthening of these categories. And also to acknowledge the role of this segment, bearing in mind aspects of multi-functionality and productivity. Multi-functionality has to do with family agriculture, thinking of food producers but also as something responsible for the preservation of natural resources and preservation of the natural landscape. We also have to think of the social fabric. Social fabric that will remain thanks to these registries. These dialogues are important. Exchanges are important for us to see, to know each other, to exchange ideas and knowledge, exchange experiences based on our discussions not only in Brazil but around the world. This strategy that some may call work among farmers is actually among producers. And the idea is to have these dialogues to discuss their problems, challenges and expectations. In Brazil we have been working in the rebuilding, re-articulation of rights. It is also important to value this space. This space offered by REAF, social organizations, they have given us their feedback, their interest in becoming even more involved. The technical and strategic realm is key to continue to work in the implementation and preparation of public policies. Let me reinforce the interest of Brazil to be part of these discussions. Now in the Department of Agriculture, we've discussed several things that have to do with innovation. By innovation, I mean different types. We've even worked with offering a new meaning for innovation, innovation with and for the people. Not just transfer of technologies, we're talking about an innovation ecosystem based on the reality of rural communities. And that is the big challenge. When we discuss innovation processes, sometimes we talk about packages, pre-made packages in those places where research is conducted. Those organizations play a major role in the participation and construction. However, we have to review these methodological processes and this is something we have been working on here with specific policies. Besides that, we have to think of the production of food which are healthy, good quantities, good quality, so that family agriculture can have this multi-reference required. And this is something we have been working on in Brazil. So we have had this dialogue with societies and I'll avoid this separation between country side and the city. We acknowledge, we understand the important role that these have. Once again, I'd like to thank you for the opportunity to be here, to have this dialogue, to build strategies and to move forward along these strategies. Thank you Vivian for your kind remarks and Luis and Ricardo for these opening remarks, which is a good context for this special to exchange valuable experiences and quite useful for strengthening the area, not only in Latin America and the Korean but also globally. Remember that you can ask questions and comments using the chatbot and after the presentation we will have time for entertaining these questions and you can share your own experiences and so that we can have a healthy debate also. We have simultaneous interpretation to Spanish, English, French, Arabic and Portuguese. As we've heard in the opening remarks and in the preparation of this first session, we'll focus on the development of institutional frameworks for family farming through the presentation of the experiences of Panaman Croatia. The formulation, development and implementation of institutional frameworks tailored to the needs and demands of family farming are essential for the multi-dimensional strengthening of the sector and the targeting of investments. It is in the context of these institutional frameworks that family farming registries are created, which are the primary tools for the implementation of targeted interventions and policies. After the presentations we will have 40 minutes for questions and answers to discuss the cases presented. So we invite you to take note of any queries you may have with our speakers and ask questions in our chat. We will then open the floor for an open debate on the relevance and challenges facing the development of institutions for family farming. In the interest of time, I would ask all participants to respect the time allotted to them so I will let you know when you have one minute left to finish your interventions. We'll now hear the first presentation by Jose Bernardo Gonzalez, who is the National Director of Rural Development at the Ministry of Agricultural Development of Panama, who will tell us about his experience in the process of formulating and acting on regulating law number 127, establishes measures for the development of family farming in Panama, as well as other relevant elements in the development of institutionality for the sector. We remind it that we will have time for Q&A and then an open debate. So once again, you can pose your questions using the chat pot and request the floor with the virtual hand. With that, let's listen to Panama's experience. Jose Bernardo, you have your 20 minutes. Thank you, Maria. Good morning. Thank you for the opportunity to share with you our experiences, our mistakes, our successes in the development of policies and strategies for family agriculture. Let me greet Luis Betushi, our dear friend, Ricardo Montero, and Viviana Almeida from Brazil, and all of the speakers, the Minister from Croatia, will be sharing the Croatian experience very well. We, in this process, before we begin the presentation, well, I share my screen if I, if I may. There. Can you see my presentation, right? There we go. Okay. We, during the last few years, 2017, we have been in a process of building this public policy for family agriculture. First, we identified the stakeholders and characterization of these stakeholders involved in family agriculture, family farmers. Thus, we created the national board for the dialogue of family agriculture with the grassroots organization, family agriculture, and the characterization supported by Brazil and FAO. Thus, Panama has been evolving slowly but surely in family agriculture because we have an economic structure mainly based on services, on financial services, on logistics, which represents more than 82% of the country's GDP. However, despite the fact that the agriculture and livestock sector only contributes up to 3% of the GDP of our country, agriculture and livestock sector represents 14% of our employment. With all that, that implies in terms of income disparities because poverty in Panama is primarily located in rural areas and in indigenous areas. And thus, 70% of the food that is sold and produced and consumed domestically comes from family agriculture and 37% of the population is in our rural areas. And as I said, poverty lies primarily in rural areas and in indigenous areas. However, the pandemic, the COVID-19 pandemic, brought to the fore the importance of agriculture primarily of family agriculture in order to guarantee not only food but also social peace in our country. And within this context, we evidenced the conditions arose to position family agriculture within the mindset of society and of decision makers enabling us or facilitated the process of developing policies for family agriculture. And in that sense, we have acknowledged the multifunctionality of family agriculture that not only refers to food and environmental sustainability but also guarantees equality, inclusion and the development possibilities of our country. So when we began the process of designing policy, we first of all thought, well, what are the challenges faced by policies or that the policy, the family agricultural policy is going to try to resolve. In the case of Panama, this involved an issue of food security and nutritional security. And we found issues related to the capability of family farmers to provide food to the population. But also the issue of the feeding of schoolchildren guaranteeing their food but also the development of local communities in order to purchase the largest possible amount of products to family farmers. We have reflected on the experience of other countries, how Brazil, Guatemala, Costa Rica and El Salvador have developed when it comes to food for schoolchildren. The other challenge is to diminish poverty given the fact that there is around 1.2 million people that find the livelihood in agriculture that live in rural areas and that is where poverty is concentrated in Panama because in the areas of in Panama of Cologne, which are in those two areas, the areas of transit of the Panama Canal, that is where we find most of the world. So we also have to lower the gaps between human development in the rural territories understanding and we will look at how through the registry and through the instruments that we have developed through the cooperation of some entities such as ECLAC, we are now understanding the new aspects of rural development and the transition between rural and urban areas because there is a not only a very strong differentiation but there is also a territorial transition that enables us to better focus public policies. We also have to lower the rural-urban migration trying to strengthen rural economies, access, market access, that's an important issue, the exclusion of family farmers which is a challenge for family agriculture, the inclusion of family farming in financial aspects and all this acquires greater importance as a result of climate change. We also need to move from compensatory policies to economic and productive inclusion policies like many countries. We over the past 30 years have focused policies on the most vulnerable and family farmers in this case with compensatory social policies for example, cash transfers, subsidies of different types, consumption subsidies and so on and everything that is related to social policies such as education, health and so on they're all important but we have not been able to implement policies that generate wealth and employment and therefore this is a challenge for family agriculture and the other aspect as mentioned by Viviana is the acknowledgement and innovation enabling us to improve the productive systems of family farmers and the equality and social inclusion. Those for us are the main challenges that we have to deal with through our family farming policies and as from 2017 we launched a process of consultation with farmers with different stakeholders and we not only approved law 127 dated in March 2020 but we have also worked on a whole set, a whole package of policies to support this development and looking at the challenges of different sectors. For example when it comes to school meals we approved a law on school meals and in 2020 we also approved a decree that regulates this decree 824 that regulates this law on school meals and that clearly indicates that at least 30% of the products for the for school meals must be purchased from family farmers and also social audits for school meals, the incorporation of heads of households to this issue of school meals and the improvement of productive systems and good agricultural practices in order to support farmers so that they may sell their products to schools. The law 127 and the decree that regulates this law and this also relates to the registries how this aspect is linked to family farming in order to guarantee a differentiation or differentiated policies. Law 297 that creates the strategy that we called in Panama Plan Colmena to establish inter sectorial coordination among public institutions in order to cater for the issue of poverty in urban areas and of course especially in rural areas. Law 261 that promotes the development of the production of cocoa and the production of coffee has two important aspects for local development and the laws focus on the promotion of incentives to these areas that are very important in our countries to support family farmers so that in the poorest areas we may be able to implement a buyer incentives and other types of policies. The promotion of these two types of production in order to generate sustainable incomes for family farmers decree one of the 16th of January 2023 creates and regulates the special fund for the development of family agriculture and what it creates primarily is a fund for the financing of family farming and for family agriculture and this involves a guarantee so that so that farmers that cannot offer a guarantee for their credits can gain access to those credits and also an insurance with regards to climatic impacts. This supports farmers but the idea is to create instruments that provide resources for the guarantees and insurance and also funds to promote technology and innovation in family agriculture and the last law that has been approved is law 352 of the 18th of January that creates an agri-food state policy which has a special chapter devoted to family agriculture and has to do with the associations and the extension system. This law creates an extension an outreach system involving technical assistance for family agriculture which involves mechanisms for private coordination to cater for family agriculture and decree nine of the 18th of July 2023 which has just been approved on the 18th of July regulates the family agriculture law and we are now launching the second national family agriculture plan which will be launched in September and that we have been working on in late 2022 and during this whole year. In this process this process involved family farmers who promoted this process and in 2016-2017 they were the ones that promoted this aspect the technicians from different institutions in order to support this process and this has to do with financing extension innovation and so on in order to establish coordination between institutions we even created a territorial intergovernment council to look at governance aspects a public council for family agriculture this also involved cooperation entities and regional entities such as CAF and other cooperation entities such as the FAO the Brazilian corporation agency we were also supported by Chilean entities that had to do with youth and high-level political officials that accompanied us during this process that was strongly that was strongly promoted by our political discourse and so the decision makers could understand in our congress the importance of being able to develop policies for family agriculture in terms of definitions let's see in Panama we conducted this characterization process that was conducted internally in a participatory fashion but we also received important contributions from Latin America article 5 of law 127 defines family agriculture it resides in the productive unit it has to do with the workforce family workforce primarily doesn't hire permanent workers the productive unit is limited in its total area and the family income comes from the productive unit primarily this is basically the definition of family agriculture for us however the same law stipulates that in order to focus public policies it is possible to implement certain parameters in order to better characterize this and article 4 of decree 112 included a whole series of parameters in order to characterize in accordance with the size of the farm this is important in the case of Panama in other countries not only size but where it is located it related to value the quality of the land the destination of production the gross family income as a which is obtained from the farm because some are agricultural workers or work in other activities in Panama obviously as a result of the economic structure that we have the gross family income from other activities and the use and hiring of workforce and we designed a chart in order in order to characterize three types of family farmers type one two and three type one is for self consumption in other words everything is used for family consumption it's a second type two that sells part of that and type three that is much more closely linked to the market and in terms of the destination of production well 100 percent in for type one is for family consumption up to 75 percent of family consumption in type two then up to 25 percent for family consumption in type three and up to 75 percent is devoted to marketing those products in terms of the revenues of the product we work this in terms of minimum salary as we all know a parameter that is used and that is relevant and that does away with the value of money and so type two family farmer has an income which is lower equal to the minimum salary and type three which is people all the same as three minimum salaries per month that is basically the characterization that was included in the registry system so that when we register a farmer we're able to identify not only the type of farmer that we're talking about but within family farmers what type of family farmers they are now as I said in 2018 we acknowledged the national committee for family agriculture that acknowledges all grassroots organizations and the national organization that represents family agriculture in 2020 we passed the law on family agriculture and article 22 created the registry of family agriculture that enables us to identify family farmers and article 23 that defines who will implement the family agriculture registry and this involves a ministerial resolution providing the national rural development unit as the leading agency for this in 2021 article 17 of decree 112 that's a regulation of the registry and it's not part of the presentation but it sets out the registration mechanisms and certification and other parameters that have to do with public procuring and markets and incentives based on the registry and certification of family agriculture and we're now in preparing the module for family farming registry and we're digitizing everything supported by the World Bank I mean the IDP to link the registries and the individual registry of family agriculture for all those that have to do with the organizations incentives or differentiated policies among others what are now the things that we have to still go work on and that we still have to implement we've been implementing all the or developing all the public policy but it has taken longer to implement the implementation rather than the passing and the house of deputy so we have gone through a political dialogue and an approval process at the national assembly congress the cabinet and we've been implementing now implementing the tools programs for the full implementation of a family farming policy as a whole we're now working on the support and incentives and transfers depending on the type of producer was to be able to implement the load it is dissemination system for instance and we're now looking at the institutional framework to implement these new dissemination systems we created the territorial development boards for the territorial projects from family farming local governance and public private engagement for technical assistance and innovation we are now in the process with five development boards in place but we have to strengthen the process for funding and insurance law was passed we were now designed in the financial tools depending on the type of producer and guarantees to implement these as according to the law research and innovation fund was approved for promotion of research and the law of the agricultural institute which is part of the governance and family farming and we're working on the research differentiated research for family farming and for markets and public procurement we've been working this short circuit supported by Mesoamerica Sinambre and FAO and shaping the procurement for school meals we are now changing the public procurement and public contracting law so that we can adjust the rules and regulations to the requirements of farmers for the implementation of family farming um the new legislation we have putting together new services information dissemination services along with the eclac and fida we built the the relative reality map to understand transition between urban and rural areas and leave aside this separation between urban and rural so as to so as to target incentives and support policies and then you in the this dissemination system we have a public private mechanism to serve producers allowed to have the private sector involved in the in the process we're also creating new mechanisms for production uh production articulation after the loss we're now working in the changing and transforming not only organizations they have to do with family farming but also governance rules for agricultural education and the management of resources and how we offer follow-up and supervision to the process and of course digital agriculture which we were just beginning the process family farming as i said this has not been done before you see know how to include funding and insurance and guarantees through digitization briefly that's what i what connects that's what i can say about the implementation so far we've created the later the foundations the structures the law the institutional framework of rules and regulations but we still have in the coming years to have the full implementation with the tools programs projects that we are working with various organizations to articulate policies for family farming thank you very much thank you José Bernardo for this interesting presentation the example of Panama shows clearly shows the relevance of having grassroots organizations to implement these processes that will help to integrate the views of the different stakeholders to build adequate relevant and efficient policies and more importantly involving family farming on the other hand the interesting recognition of the multi-dimensionality of family farming and the multiple factors and sectors which are supported so as to reach the full potential food social security rural development as Fernando said our places where family farming plays a huge role phase the different challenges and it should be part of the transformation and development strategies this thought about the support of family farming in a comprehensive manner many times this is a scene and there are institutional and intersectoral articulations which is a number of actions to address the various challenges faced by family farming in a proper way given the different challenges and last but not least the goal of these very strategies we need to remember that the institutional frameworks are not they're not and in and of itself but it's a step to strengthen the family farming sector again um we will have a time for q and a and then an open debate because once again send your questions so using the chat pod or request the floor through the button raise your hand to continue with this the first session of the cycle of exchange of registration experiences for family farming we give the floor to Tokomir my deck secretary of state in the Croatian Ministry of Agriculture who will present experience on family farming law in that country enacted in 2018 as we said before we will have time for q and a and now once again we have simultaneous interpretation into Spanish English French Arabic and Portuguese we will now learn the experience of Croatia mr. Baxac you are recognized you have 20 minutes thank you very much mr. Haldat I am privileged to participate this online conference thank you very much FAO and your team to invite me to present our experience in family farming in Croatia I also congratulate on my colleague mr. Gonzales very nice presentation and example of Panama regarding to family farming in his country I have divided my presentation in two parts first part will be orientated to the facts and figures as regards in Croatia agriculture and as you can see in first slide please you can yes in Croatia as regards 2022 data we have registered it 166 000 farmers as regards utilized agricultural and it is 1.4 million and these two elements raised 729 000 livestock units if you are talking about a livestock production yes in Croatia definitely dominated crop production almost 60 percent of crop production is existing animal production is a little bit decreased in last 20 30 years it is about now 35.5 percent as regards services and secondary activities total or together more than five percent next slide if you are talking about agriculture output it is now in last year 2022 3.1 billion euro gross value added almost 50 percent of total agriculture output gross value added 2.3 percent of total GDP of our country factor income per annual work unit the more than 10 000 euro and subsidies we are a member of the european union and we have also a large amount of subsidies more than one first as regards factor income and these are together you funds the two funds and also national amount which we deliver to our farmers as regards trade balance export import we are negative trade balancing because we are only self-sufficient in cereals and the oil seed crops next slide according to our existing law on agriculture our farmer need to be registered in our farm register this is first level of registration and we divided several organizational forms family farm self-sufficient agriculture holding trade registered for agriculture activity trading company or cooperatives registered for performing agricultural activities and other legal entities definitely a farm register is first platform and legal base not only for subs subsidies but for several activities if a person are natural or legal person in agriculture yes we can go forward next slide when we are talking about farm registered we established this registered 2001 year and all registers and records maintained by the ministry of agriculture must contain the farmers personal identification number and farmers registry identification number there are two uh level of identification and we are now in electronic form that contains real life reliable and up to date data on farmers it is an important tool in the creation of agricultural policy uh and our implementing body is paid agency uh which is uh uh based for all our records and all data which we uh disseminate to other institution but also to the farmer institution and organization uh also the regulation governing the protection of personal data are applied to the data in the farm register we can go further next slide uh farm register is mandatory definitely for farmers who apply part of agricultural policy measures there are different types of supports firstly direct support then uh market support measures and rural development measures uh second level of support and uh for saving uh their products agricultural products they have to be registered in our farm register the condition for registration is the possession of all of higher agricultural resources they have to submit on yearly basis these resources to the implementing body or paid agency and they have farmers which are registered in farm register they have to perform agricultural activities there are two uh obligatory conditions as regards uh farm registered but there are several more next slide please uh when we are talking about farm structure according to utilized land a number of farmers uh uh is very uh volatile number but up to five hectare uh we have uh almost 70 percent uh of our farmers that's mean that uh we have a very fragmented to the land and uh uh we have to uh push our farmers to uh some measure uh which are now uh in new uh our strategic plan uh uh defined to consolidate it uh the land definitely the number of farmers uh seven percent of those who have uh up to five uh hectares is very limited factor as regards intensive production or uh yield when we are talking about groups uh next slide please and when we are talking about age uh and the farm structure number of farmers uh which are older than 65 uh years uh 40 percent uh and uh younger than uh 41 uh 14.5 uh percent uh this is uh also one of the reason uh when we and why we decided when we decided 2018 to uh publish new law law on family farms uh when we are talking about age and utilized agricultural land uh older than 65 possessed 18 percent of land younger than 41 25 percent this is uh a positive trend but uh uh also uh show us that we have uh invest more uh in uh young farming in a measure which contribute the development of young farmers next slide please uh according to education uh in uh creation uh uh farmers uh when we are talking about farmers uh those who has secondary school uh uh almost 40 percent uh higher education 9.1 percent uh elementary school 16.7 percent uh and not available data it's mean that uh uh they are without education or we have no data uh yes uh uh another uh cake uh show us uh as regards utilized agricultural land that uh those uh who has secondary school uh utilized 37.7 percent of uh agricultural land it shows that this is dominated uh uh type of our farmers regarding education next slide and finally organizational form dominated uh form as we are talking when we are talking about farming in Croatia are definitely family farms uh we put in our law on agriculture which is uh main law when we are talking about uh legal uh framework for agricultural activities in Croatia uh family farms are on almost 76 percent of total number of our organizational form and uh they utilized almost 71 percent of total areas registered in Arkod Arkod is uh registered for recognition of agricultural land plots uh and on base of which uh our pay agency uh deliver the support when we are talking about several funds or national resources in average one family farm utilize the 6.6 uh hectare of agricultural land as uh i already mentioned is this fragmented land which belongs by family farms and mostly they are engaged in mixed production 33.6 of farmers grow mixed crops in addition to livestock production and now next slide please uh i will present to you why we published 2018 and why we decided on policy level in the ministry and creation government uh 2016 already but 2018 we published a new law on family farm it is because agriculture output decrease in that time factor income decrease import of agricultural and food products increase and significant reduction of livestock which i already mentioned in the last 20 30 years and definitely one negative trend uh in our areas when we are talking about southeast of europe the population of rural areas uh these were the main reason why we published the first draft then published new law on family farm next slide please uh yes these are some uh pictures which show us these negative trends uh which followed the which were followed by our decision to publish new law with more uh advantages and more opportunities for our family farms next slide uh our law on family farms uh was adopted in 2018 uh in creation uh we put in our main strategic documents uh in our law of agriculture that family farms are a strategically important organizational form of farmers uh the adoption of the law made it possible to separate family farms from other organizational forms uh our first intention was that divide those which primarily produce for uh cell sufficient needs that they are they are orientated for their own needs uh in contrary uh of those which are orientated to the market selling uh and because of that we put one uh economical size of 3000 uh uh euro which divided these uh which are self-sufficient in uh uh ordered uh other uh family farms uh next slide please yes uh family farm uh in Croatia are dominated the strategic form of uh uh our farmers uh uh we uh together with uh law uh opened the register for family farm and uh our paying agency uh recorded or registered all those which are uh family farms and also uh uh we divided from self-sufficient uh family farms uh I already mentioned this that economic size uh greater than the amount of 3000 uh euro is uh uh limit for those who uh uh are family farms uh in a register of family farms uh and those uh are uh obligatory uh to be in a register uh also self-sufficient farms would be in a register on uh uh voluntary base but uh in a period of one year uh they need to transfer and to uh uh overlap this uh amount of their production of 3000 uh euro and to be uh uh totally uh in line with the law and this uh this economic uh value of their production uh we also link our family farm register with the creation chamber of agriculture and uh all those which are organizational form farmers which are organizational form of family farm uh are the part of or are the members of our creation chamber of agriculture next slide please uh through our law on family farm we define the important provision related to the family farm operation definitely the conditions for carrying out the economic activity of agriculture and related secondary activities performed at family farm we allow them to have services and several secondary activities uh which can contribute the economic activities in rural areas definitely procedure and condition for registration in the family farm register are also provision related to the family farm operation and also they carry uh some responsibility rights and obligation of holder and members of family farm with uh defined holder uh as head of family farm uh entity and some members also uh all these uh are prescribed in our law next slide please uh what are some specific uh contribution through our or recognition through our law on family farms uh that there is or they were from 2018 growing interest in performing secondary activities uh more family farms are registered in the taxpayers register and definitely a lot of our family farms use opportunity uh which is the prescribing law of exemption from enforcement next slide in order to enable their further development family farms a given priority in realizing the right to support uh which was not possible before when we are talking about uh cap or common agricultural policy uh for uh existing period from 2023 to 2027 they will enable to structural transformation of the agricultural and food sector into a more activity than production of high quality food and competitive prices sustainable measures of natural resources creation of new jobs and increasing the quality of life and work in rural areas they are all uh goals uh which uh are prescribed in our new strategic strategic plan of common agricultural policy for this period of five years for which we have a develop of 3.8 billion euro together with uh national uh money uh and uh we developed several types of intervention for young farmers for small farmers for uh green architecture for uh organic farming and for environmental climate measure which we will uh uh implement in next period or we already started in next period next slide next slide uh I already mentioned our creation chamber of agriculture and uh a fact that uh all registered family farms in uh registered for family farms they are members of chamber of agriculture and they are obligatory member uh together with our law on family farms we published in 2018 uh new law for creation chamber of agriculture and this institution is very important to us which is uh our leading partner in uh decision making in strategic planning in uh several common activities and definitely our member in implementation of agricultural policy uh yes I uh also see opportunity uh for uh our member of family farms in creation chamber of agriculture uh to be one of our uh leading uh partner in several uh working group when we are talking about intervention about strategic plan of common agricultural policy and then we are talking about criteria for several types of support either intervention in uh some investment measure or direct payments on several uh market orientated uh measures uh yes this uh was a short overview of our situation in agriculture uh policy of creation with some specific figures of uh our agricultural activities and our orientation uh on uh family farms and uh orientation uh in next period that uh they will stay uh leading uh form uh of agricultural holding or hard cultural uh member uh several uh institution when we are talking about creation agricultural policy thank you very much for your attention I'm open for your question thank you thank you for sharing your experience around the family farm in law and creation and the whole process that led to the enacting of these several aspects which are relevant uh related to the previous presentation by go seven involvement of family farmers having their voice in the process through what uh master mr master just said on the involvement in the chamber of agriculture it is also important like he said the various definitions of family farming and how to interpret and recognizing the various categories in family farming and in agriculture in general thanks to that uh we can identify the various uh segments and different roles and therefore requiring different measures uh relevant to their activities it's also important like he said the information is applied by these family farming registries to to promote of formulation monitoring of public policies global scenarios change family farming will also change therefore it's important for family farming policies to evolve according to the new realities and this is something that family farming registries will make it visible clearly we can see like mr master just said the new strategy of uh income diversification from family farming which is a trend we also see globally again uh those in the session we will have a period for q and a and then open a debate therefore you can send your questions through the chat pod and use the virtual hand along with the experience with learning about experiences from the point of view of the institutions as we have heard from Panama and Croatia it is also relevant to know the impressions of those actors so to whom this law is addressed to family farmers to these then we have with us today a that being son a woman producer and her person of producers of Panama in in aprodepa welcome spin son it's a pleasure to listen to your ideas and the process of formulation development implementation of family farming law in Panama the floor is yours good morning everyone above all apologies i uh i'm uh on my way to the east uh part of my country to a meeting with producers i'm in a bus so i'm asked uh the driver to turn the radio off to have this conversation with you i would like to for the invitation and although i'd like to thank all those stakeholders that can make that make possible for us to be in touch to know each other to interact among us it's uh all these training these uh mechanisms for us producers are really important so that uh we can uh get together i will talk about my country Panama greetings from Panama like uh i was uh listening uh engineer jose Bernardo Gonzalez on the law we've worked together for us it has been a matter of pride as farmers to have a law on family farming we are no longer the the subsistence farmers now we have a name now we are producers in agri call and family farming we're now producers and in these evolution to become producers it's not an easy task was integration joining communities together an understanding organizations cooperatives different groups heard their feelings how they how how how producers felt and see how we could make these changes changes were big this was a teamwork a comprehensive approach leading to a law this uh evolution has uh been strengthened because our country like uh mr. Gonzalez said we're implementing several policies and and and now we have a law which is called the uh body law that it's it's like uh the whole protection because as family farmers we request this space in the state agri food policy so we have different conversations along we interacted with them as uh as producers or as stakeholders and today uh we are also part of these 127 which is part of the state policy which brings about us to strengthening of our agricultural sector these are spaces uh that uh we are taking hold of i always tell my fellow producers that i've i've been very serious uh uh about this idea of being a producer being a farmer working on family farming working with grass root groups and agencies it was the only way uh was the only way to strengthen our situation and in the central america and um we've been working with the regions to create a different plans in my country after these law let me take the opportunity to share with you the experiences after enacting the law and what we have done with the state policy which is trying to with the national committee of family farming uh we encourage farmers to be activated we will become uh uh what we will become a formal organization we do need of course strengthening uh of of course a law has to has to be a living thing we have to act on them uh there's no point in uh writing a law uh to uh be filed we need these laws to have funding in our country the agency there is an agency for family farming uh funding we we need to address with them several topics i know that uh today is the family farming registries but let me share with you and be the voice of thousands of producers we need a more targeted work we need to channel information to all uh our members so as to reach everyone so as all producers producers in our country can know that we have a law a law that we have benefited that so that we can be empowered so we need these dissemination we need to acknowledge that the pandemic uh uh and we therefore we need to resume our activities we do we don't we don't talk about uh the purity but uh of food security but also food sovereignty for me it's really important an emphasis on food sovereignty so reinforcing this sovereignty and look at the laws and articulate the laws so this is also part of our process but we do need we need to interact at institutional level with the rural development coordinators so as to reach every single organization cooperative or group so that this law it's common to all we also have to thank FAO that for the infrastructure of certain provinces in in our country the other goal is to have these implemented throughout the whole country personally i see uh that uh we we we we need we need to we need to be in a proper building with air conditioning not under a piece of cloth to sell our products selling out in the street no no we have to see that at least in our country which is our country is aspiring of a first country where we have to take the steps such to become a first world economy selling with selling quality product so that both producers and consumers can interact because we will be selling directly from producers to users this is the challenge not only for Panama it's a challenge for every country direct sales and not only for for fresh fruit or vegetables the whole market that change in in our country 19 percent which we lost because of industrialization uh we need to recover that for our families these will create wealth and a solidarity based economy this is uh we this is what we need fortunately i'm i'm now in the process of signing this a couple of agreements so as to so as to apply these throughout Panama so that every market created at the ministry and the municipal level or or or different agencies family farming but producers have to be a place to empower ourselves let's hope that whilst uh this step is taken and this has to be taken on board by people out in the countryside that they are aware of the law and all the benefits of the law why because it's important for them to be aware of this so that we can all act together all of us are working together in this same direction with regards to the issue of family agricultural registries in my country two years ago minister Augusto Valderrama brought together his whole national team of directors at a provincial level and requested that indeed in order to enforce the law and all commitments with the law that we begin to register all family agriculture i spoke to Jose Bernardo about uh the fact that we are requesting these surveys because we need that we need to determine that uh the majority is registered that we have the comprehensive uh management uh uh system for agricultural livestock sick up but we need that registry to be out in the field in situ so that we can reference the area where producers are what it is that they are producing how much they are producing what is the most important production that they have and a technical data sheet so that we can better know the status of that producer uh how is their access to electricity water and so on a database that we have to establish not only in Panama but in all countries and I would like to benefit from this event because uh I would like to encourage colleagues from other regions and countries to do this we must know in detail what our people are producing whether they are located we must have that in place because that is the only way to know exactly what we can have available for domestic consumption for our citizens and what can be exported it's important to have all that uh per item per quantities per hectares how much of them have irrigation and so on a technical data sheet so that we can translate that into a platform about knowledge of producers and so that the governments may be fully aware of what it is that we are producing as a country so that is what I wanted to share with you we are awaiting a meeting with our national director Jose Bernardo to discuss two very important issues the issue of establishing all the coordination that is necessary to continue to empower our people and directors of rural development so that they can bring this down to earth in all provinces and also to analyze the issue of resources because without resources we will not be able to mobilize this we need the tangible and real financing to be received by our people in rural areas and we must also strengthen agencies we must get them much more we must get regional agencies much more involved so so that they may be aware that the law is in place that protects our producers and that we must value this law and producers because if producers are not there if they don't exist it'll it'll be impossible for public officials to do their work this is a sort of chain reaction everyone is able to do this as a result of producers and therefore all these institutions that we have in our country must come together and must be in close contact with the producers and this is as far as I would like to go I don't know whether there'll be questions in the future I am available to answer them of course and here we are then pushing forward this major initiative of family agriculture and you have in me a friend both here in Panama and in the rest of the regions because we're here to encourage rural areas to make them produce and despite the fact that and despite the fact that we suffer from all this we still need to work more on droughts on climate change these are factors that we must take into consideration to make our land produce we must have faith in the creator that gave us a land seeds absolutely everything so that these catastrophic situations said that we hear every day in the mass media doesn't affect us and doesn't create emotional problems for us but rather that we are encouraged and that every day we try to plant as many seeds as possible in our fields because that is our success to have food for our families for our neighbors and in order to market this to have solidarity local economies in our country so I am now traveling east to a meeting that we have there to analyze the added value of the empowerment of producers because remember that for historical reasons major companies have these processes in place and we must take this process to our people out in rural areas so often we have problems with onions and with tomatoes well we must add added value to milk onions tomatoes and so on and these spaces that represent nine percent and that is in the hands of major corporations the time has come for people in our rural areas to be empowered working with feasibility studies with projects seeking financing that government banks get involved in this and likewise national funds and international funds but people in rural areas must be able to place in supermarkets in stores or in local markets the products of family agriculture with their brands with their labeling and with all these processes which is the major leap forward that is still pending the main challenge to be empowered of markets of production of added value which will enable us to prevent losses in our crops because we will use absolutely everything we have to produce a whole series of high products and we must be empowered in that sense so from Panama warm greetings to you all and I'm here open to answer any questions thank you Mrs. Binzon for your comments for your reflections undoubtedly the challenges of family agriculture are multiple and require an adequate and relevant institutional framework in order to cater for the needs of the sector and enable them to reach their full potential as the driving forces for rural development it's also important to mention the institutional framework of family agriculture because this is a recognition of the sector in the widest sense of the word on the one hand they're bringing to the fore its important role and also acknowledging its challenges and needs providing them with adequate tools we thank once again all our panelists here for their valuable reflections that they have shared with us so we will now move on to the third part of this section where we will open up a 40-minute space for a Q&A session with our panelists and we would like you to ask for the floor raising your hand or asking your questions in writing in the chat indicating whether this refers to the experience of Croatia, Panama or others for those that ask for the floor you will have a maximum of three minutes to ask your questions and please introduce yourselves when you begin your interventions in order to facilitate this section we will ask three questions and then off the floor to our panelists let's move on to the first round of questions aimed at the experience of Panama. The question from our participants in the chat refers to the experience of data collection for the family agriculture registry and one participant asks how successful has Panama had in the in data collection related to income information it mentions that in Colombia difficulties have arisen with regards to this issue as a result of cultural aspects and people abstain from providing this information and they have found similar problems whether you have found similar problems and what recommendations secondly what is the size of the family agriculture production unit in Panama and how this area is related to the maintenance of family agriculture thank you José Bernardo you have the floor thank you Maria Ignacia when we implemented the family agriculture registry within the information system in order the information that CICAP has which is a system to register all farmers and there is a module there for family agriculture that enables us to link and understand in general terms the issue of family agriculture we have so far registered out of the roughly 220 000 family farmers around 15 000 farmers however this registration process has suffered changes because on the way we have discovered well we have made some adjustments to the registry when we began with these registries they involved a lot of questions many things and we have adjusted that and improved the process however in terms of income we have faced certain difficulties one of the difficult aspects where when it comes to income and this is cultural in nature as occurs in Colombia is how prepared the technicians that register are to inform producers of the importance of being registered and one of the important issues is that the registration system is mandatory you need to be registered in order to receive the benefits of the different programs and focus to policies and there are incentives for producers to register and therefore we have faced certain problems in that sense but producers have not been have been quite willing to provide their income when they provide or when they register their income they assume that the register is to support them and that is really relies on the person that is taking this survey the people the officials working in the different territories in terms of the size of the unit well in our law we try to not only use the productive unit that occurs in all countries in order to conduct this characterization but rather as a result of the value of the land that they have that certain areas have acquired in our country we had to produce a chart per zone in order to differentiate it differentiate the type of family agriculture not only also involving the size of the land that is acknowledged of those that are acknowledged as family farmers for example in some areas where land is of collective ownership they are not strictly speaking owners of the land in terms of their private being private property but it is allocated for their use and what was stipulated was up to 50 hectares because these are collective family lands and also as is well known a lot of the land is in indigenous areas and that is not the best land and we defined for example in areas where land was very valuable for example in a place in Panama in the western part of Panama in the areas of several punta and las nubes we defined up to five hectares of land and that is regarded as one of the characteristics not the only one one of the characteristics of family agriculture so it depends on the zone we conducted a stratification there not only based on the value of land but also on the based on the use of technology for example in some of those places a five hectare producer that has greenhouses for his crops is not a that has to be taken into consideration also and not only land but before we classify something as family agriculture the small farmers or micro producers so we considered those that had between one and five hectares now that is not the only criteria but we have also linked land per zone per area and also the income the labor the workforce whether they have permanent a hired workforce or temporary workforce and also the type of production and therefore in order to classify the different type of farmers we consider all those characteristics in order to certify that we're talking of a family farmer now I would like to say that in the law that was mentioned that was passed in January we incorporated in addition to family agriculture other class producer classifications that in that are small and medium sized in addition to family farmers that enable us to have a wider ranging package of differentiated policies for family farmers that will be the most vulnerable ones but we also took into consideration in the new law other small and medium sized farmers for the policy of differentiated policies depending on the type of producers of course and in order to have a wider ranging more differentiated policy I hope I've answered a couple of questions thank you Jose Bernardo for your answer we also have a round of questions for Mr. Mestak some of them were also already answered through the chat pod but if you could please share with us some of your answers for those who are listening there are three questions where whether if you could elaborate on the yeah oh you already read the questions I'm sorry because some of them are Spanish and I need to translate and then the answer but first question was about our data when we entered to the EU as a member for member we entered to EU family 2013 not 2004 second wave was 2004 when some East European country entered but Croatia entered 2013 as only country which entered in this year into and the last we are the youngest member of EU family and yes the question was if they if they asked us all relevant data including the register from 2000 which was started from 2001st year yes we provided to European institution European Union all official registers including the farm register data but I a lot of related that farm register started 2001st year and register for family farms started from 2018 when we published the law that was my answer to first questions second question was can you please elaborate more on the farm consolidation measure not farm consolidation measure but land consolidation measure is measured under new EU framework which is called national plan plan of recovery and the resilience and protection beneficiaries are local municipalities which have to perform activities on consolidation the fragmented parcels into bigger plots for agriculture production next in the farming system how many family members will engage in agriculture when we are talking about register family farms regarding the new register for family farms we have approximately 110,000 market orientated family farms because we still and this live process is still harmonized and divide those two categories of family farms self-sufficient family farms in contrary to market orientated family farms and it is a live process because when the border is online is 2000 euro as economic activity performed by the summer farm then in some months or on years you can fall down below this line and because of that this is a live process when which is controlled by our pay agency and pay agency then decide and provide the information which farms are family farms and last questions it was a question about to elaborate it more about mixed agriculture production as regards family farms the adoption of the law on family farms enabled the growth of family farms entrepreneurship which is visible through the increase of the number of family farms in the period from 2018 to 2022 the number of family farms with registered secondary activities has more than tripled it is increased by 221 percent and secondary activities are production and service activities ready to agriculture and these activities enable better use of production capacities better use of knowledge skills and work of family farms members okay I believe that it was all yes thank you thank you very much Mr. Majdak for your your great answers and taking care of the inquiries from from our participants and we would now like to give the word to one of our participants attendees actually for this meeting who has a racism so we ask our IT support team if they can give the word to Mr. Fernando's gang please so he can ask us no question hello Fernando go ahead please yes I was thinking of given the work at the regional level on coverage and the importance of the application of public policies because these are two topics which convert public policies should take into account registries on the other hand we are trying to identify public policies and not all of them are considering public this family farming registries how registries are connected how they linked how these public policies are implemented and the other thing is that these public policies should also or could also lead to an increase in coverage but not only coverage in terms of live quality of data but also proper controls procedures and social controls so it's just a thought I'm sorry I didn't introduce myself but I'm a representative of family farming registries in the euro wide I'm the focal point of the family farming registries for the specialized unit and in this process these two dialogues lead to a complimenting approach the representative civil society said that we have to go out to the countryside yes we have to be closed but let's not confuse an administrative registries with the with the census this is very important thank you it was just a final just a final thought general thought thank you Fernando for your kind remarks would you refer to the implementation of a family farming registry this is something that will be discussed in the coming sessions as well as this link this liaison of the these registries and the implementation of public policies we have one last question in our chat pod for both the question is how were you able to integrate this family farming registry with other registries from other organizations and cooperatives managed by other agencies of men or ministries in the government Jose Bernardo or Mr. Mashdaka any of you would like to take these question Jose Bernardo please go ahead thank you Maria Ignacia in Panama the registry we have by farmer so farmers are part of cooperatives many many but also they are all members of organizations of family farming and and there is an ID number the identification number and that's what we use not only cooperatives and organizations but also we are together with the government innovation and we're trying to link that to other programs for instance but the ministry of social development for money transfers the authority of SMEs supporting a business plan so banking which is a banking for for entrepreneurs or small entrepreneurs and what we are doing now is with the well Fernando Sgana helped us in the analysis and proposal for this registry and the this but the design of of registry family farming which are in the process of implementing with the cooperation from World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank we're now putting together a registration of associations of family farming cooperatives association linked to the individual registry a registry why because this has to do with public policies how the registry will help us to target public policies or how public policies are targeted through these registries many of the policies designed have to do with organizations for instance we created a banking industry for small producers but this banking system was for organizations of family farms therefore we need to certify which are organizations of family farming is supposed to receive the benefit of this funding and for collective insurance issues for the funding for a collateral system and according to the law then and the rules of the law in order to recognize an organization who requires at least 75% of the membership should be family farms that means that for us to certify an organization of family farmers each member had to be linked to the individual registration for us to know whether 200 300 20 family farmers if the 70 75 percent our family farmers us to receive the benefit so we're working on that registry this is a software software program with digitized family farming registry so as to have a link so that we can certify those organizations and link them by using the personal ID number we all have the files and records so on paper so we're digitizing everything and we hope that between now and next year this registry will be in place to support policies otherwise it will be difficult to support the funding development and incentive policies thank you thank you Jose Bernardo for your question and I will offer the floor to Mr Tugovil Magda yes the question was how the register of family farms could contribute to development of our agricultural policies I already answered that we recognized all representatives of family farms as fully partners in our decision making process but also this new register helped us to recognize how to develop criteria for future measure under our strategic plans our strategic documents and also measures under these documents and how give more benefit to this organizational form of agricultural farmers because family farm farmers and family farms I repeat are recognized as strategic form in Croatia when we are talking about all farmers because of that we publish new law because of that we as subregister open the new register and they have all benefits which are described into the law but also when we are talking about measures for example this exemption of some financial obligation and when we are talking about surviving some family farms this is also prescribed new in our law of agriculture but now is put in a law on family farms especially for this group of sensitive member and when we are talking about agricultural policy also young farmers are very big issue when we are talking about future support and this group is also very well presented and they are talking about family farmers and family farms this means that this new law helped us a lot when we are talking about policy makers together with our government together with other institution agency but also the ministry because now we have a big negotiation with the ministry of environment ministry of economy because these new policies which have to be harmonized by agricultural policy regarding new policy new emission you know some obligation to emissions of CO2 and everything and because of that we want and wanted first of all through new law of family farms to put some umbrella on this form of our agricultural farmers and to ensure them as much as it is possible long living in rural areas because we see them the main subject of and the main players when we are talking about future rural development. Thank you Mr. Tugomir for your answer and we thank all participants for their valuable contributions to this discussion we have reached the end of this session and we would like to again thank you all for your participation and especially our panelists for sharing their experiences and knowledge with all of us and with regards the institutional framework in order to strengthen family agriculture to conclude I would like to offer the floor to Mr. Reducci to share some reflections so that we can bring this session to an end thank you Maria Ignacia I would simply like to sincerely thank and each one of you for being part of this very valuable exchange of experiences that inaugurates this cycle within the framework of the flat form on family agriculture I would like to especially thank our friend Jose Bernardo Gonzales a director for rural development at the ministry of agriculture and livestock in Panama Mr. Tugomir Magdaq secretary of state in the ministry of agricultural Croatia thank you very much for sharing your experience and reflections with us I believe that in both reflections in both interventions what came across very clearly at least in my opinion that registries must fall apart of a strategy to strengthen the sector this is not a silver bullet it is not a single initiative but rather part of a whole series of instruments that are aligned around a strategy this is the port of entry to these policies I would like to thank Mrs. Ada Pinzon who represents the voice of those that are truly aware of the needs challenges of this sector Mrs. Ada Pinzon mentions an important issue when she says that laws have to have both instruments and financing they must have the necessary teeth so to speak and she also mentioned quality and security good practices to ensure the incorporation of family agriculture in marketing circuits I have no doubts that after this very interesting discussion that we're all very clear on the importance of the development and strengthening of the institutional framework of family agriculture that is what provides us with a necessary framework in order to promote this sector and that goes hand in hand with objective number one of the global action plan of the UN Decade and this creates an adequate political framework in order to strengthen family agriculture so I believe that we have to congratulate Maria Inacia Pedro the whole team I would like to thank the interpreters who have also enabled us to connect to within the framework of this platform different regions of the world around an agenda that as I mentioned at the beginning involves dialogue cooperation between countries in order to facilitate the development and implementation of policies for the sector as from the FAO we are committed to continue to support these opportunities to exchange and cooperate promoting regional integration and inter regional integration we are fully convinced that it is only through collective action and through the cooperation between countries we will be able to advance towards an agenda that recognizes and that enhances the incredible contribution of family agriculture aimed towards a sustainable inclusive development for our societies and therefore once again thank you very much everyone for your valuable time for your commitment and let us continue to work together in favor of family agriculture so that it can contribute to more inclusive prosperous and sustainable and resilient future for everyone thank you very much everyone thank you Luis for your words thus we bring to an end this session we would like to tell you that the recording of this very rich discussion that we have held today will be published in the technical platform on the regional technical platform on family agriculture together with that you can gain access through the link that we will share in the chat likewise we remind you that on september 5 we will be holding the second session of this round of exchanges where we will get to know experiences on the design and implementation of registries for family agriculture in other words the implementation of these tools we invite you to register to the second meeting where we will have panelists from brazil and uh kenya and we hope to continue with the very fruitful conversation may you all have a very good afternoon and thank you very much