 My name is Pedro Guaredo, family farming specialist at the FAUS regional office for Latin America and the Caribbean and coordinator of several projects. I would like to welcome you all to this third session of the cycle of exchanges of experiences on registers for family farming. Before we begin I would like to remind you that this event has simultaneous interpretation into Spanish, English, French, Arabic and Portuguese. You have a club icon on the lower part of your screen and there you can choose your language and the purpose of the cycle of exchanges on family farming registries is to promote cooperation and the exchange of experiences on registries and based on the pillars of the global action, global plan of action of the United Nations Decades on family farming and the priorities set out in Latin America and the Caribbean in the Charter of Santiago de Chile in 2022. This forum is a space for a dialogue that seeks to share lessons learned and challenges encountered in development of family farming registers and their linkage to policies to strengthen the sector worldwide. This event is being developed through the regional technical platform on family farming managed by the FAUS regional office for Latin America and the Caribbean with the technical support from the unit for the participation of family farming and parliamentary networks in Rome. We have the pleasure to have the support and coordination of the Central American Agricultural Council through the Executive Secretariat and we also have the support of Mirko Sur and the RIAF and the Brazilian Presidency and National Coordination and the Ministry of Guerrero Development and Family Farming. In the last two sessions of the cycle we were able to learn about the paths that different countries around the world have taken to develop an institutional framework in favor of family farming and the process of developing the tools for registries and the central function of which is to connect farmers with this institutional framework to support the agricultural sector. For this last session of the cycle we will have the opportunity to delve a little deeper into the process of developing the farming families of registries and how they are being connected concretely with policies and actions differentiated for the sector. Today we are going to learn from the experience of Lebanon, Uruguay and Brazil and each panelist will have 20 minutes for the presentation and we will have a space for questions and answers and at the closing we will have some thoughts that we will share and conclusions for the next event. To start with this session I would like to give the floor to our colleagues from Uruguay. We have here Fernando Iscanda who is in charge of the Rural Development Department of the Ministry for Agriculture, Livestock and Fishery of Uruguay and he will talk about the development of family farming registries and how they are related to the public policies that exist in the country. Fernando, thank you very much for being with us. You have 20 minutes for your presentation and I will give you a heads up so that you know that you need to finish. Thank you very much. Good morning everybody. I am going to start sharing my screen so that you can see it. I would like to thank first the Regional Office of FAO for the invitation, our dear panelists, the Government of Uruguay and especially the Division for Development and the Ministry for Livestock and Agriculture and the Secretary General for the RIAV, Lautaro Rizcav. First of all I would like to tell you why do we use the family farming registries for the creation of public policies? After social recognition and political recognition of family farming we have the need to identify these subjects who are the family farmers. For implementation of public policies for all the processes established in the UN they get on family farming that you know. How do we do this? Well the tool in the registry links public policies with the identification of these subjects. The identification of these subjects for family farmers was made through a clear operational definition of the subject development of our registration tool and we link through public policies for family farming to the extent that these public policies use this registry but if these public policies do not use our registry then we cut the cycle and a virtuous cycle of action which is very complex. How do we undertake this process and here I'm going to talk about the particular experience of Uruguay. Here we need to think about the context. We started with the context of the country, it is a small country in South America with 175,000 square kilometers with a population of 3,286 people concentrated in Montevideo. We have a small rural population of 5 percent and that population which is 3,200,000 has been very stable during the last years since 1953. Therefore we have special characteristics, a small country of few population and a few small amount of producers and the context involves that the process started with Mercosur through the specialized meeting on family farming and we established common objectives to understand what is a family farmer. For Mercosur we have a common definition of family farming, family farmers which includes the labor, the family in the participation in production, the residence and the capacities for work of the farming family. Likewise in the resolution of Mercosur that defines family farmers in the same Mercosur resolution we can see the concept of the development of family farming registries so that with the identification of the subjects we can create different policies. Then we see that we kept making progress, we had the permanent technical working group where we generated a space for exchange until establishing the mutual recognition resolutions. Therefore a family farmer in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay are considered equal according to these resolutions particularly in Uruguay based on these regulations we developed a structure, a regulation structure at the local level with degrees and resolutions to have different criteria and variable sizes for example non-family work which has a cap on higher labor, the productive capacity has a cap on area in production, the family residence is considered in the production unit in a maximum distance of the production unit and the family income that also has a cap on extra income. We were able to characterize family farming through a processing of the general agricultural sensors that agricultural sensors in Uruguay were updated by in 2011 the total of production unit 62% compared with the requirements and the different characteristics. We have a universe that we can estimate. So why do we want this registry? Basically for the need of implementing differentiated public policies and that's why we created the family farming registry. It has a regular tour base, an operational unit, it is in charge of a specific department and it is in order to identify the access to public policies in the processes we have done since 2009. The official data we have refers to 16,856 producers which are family units and 29,426 are identified as family producers. This allows us to identify individuals and families that can have these characteristics. This is in order to have the implementation of public policies in our review of the one of the first ones that allowed the creation of this registry is related to taxing. In Uruguay it is mandatory for farmers to make a contribution to social security. This way you can have right to retirement and the policy was to differentiate the contributions of family farmers that were registered to this policy in the ministry. So their contribution is inferior to the one done by other farmers. So since 2009 different governments have gone through this process with around 10,000 family units benefitted from this policy. Then we have the next one that's very important which is a land tax in Uruguay. In 2015 family farmers were able to have a partial subsidy of this taxing. So two public policies of exception that makes the registry to work. Here you can see a photo of how the registry process is done and a map of the distribution of family farmers. Then the third policy is related to the access to technical assistance and credit according to the general direction of rural development. They are a number of summons to obtain differentiated technical assistance and financial assistance. The fourth policy recently in the process of climate emergency related to the processes according to the existence of climate change. There's the development of a few policies that is also focused on family farmers. From there on once we have identified them not only in our country but also at a regional level we were able to access using your reference we established which areas were the most vulnerable to this process and we started to give tools first credits then food in order to address the lack of crops. In the case of Uruguay the majority of family farmers dedicated themselves to livestock and with the last drug we were able to access to give 4,000 family farmers access to credits with a subsidy rate that was significant. And in this case it is the process of trading in the scenery of public sales. This is done from the registry of productive units and through a law we created the organizations of family farming that were providing to the state and we created a policy for public sales from the state. And that way we would have specific markets for family farming. This has been done for about six seven years and it has covered a series of important purchases and has given family farmers access to the markets. We have done this national registry of organizations using the registry of family producers and this allows common access to the public sales. Then we have other series of policies that are also linked to the registry of family farming, the financing to family meat producers, access to insurance in livestock for family producers, access to land, the regulations in the use of seeds. We can talk a lot about policies but what are the lessons that we have learned from this process? Well first the importance of the political regional context in the agenda of family farming. Not only the international year of family farming but also the decade and the reality because they have marked the agenda and allowed us to generate actions in this sense. Understanding that the registry is a medium and not the end we go. We have seen these in many places. They see the registry as the solution but it isn't. It is a tool that's useful for public policies and we must take care of it so we can create better policies. The other aspect is pragmatism when using these tools sometimes. We take a lot of time and we understand that using a few data avoiding the access to controls or complex processes but rather having a simple process that allows to have an efficient process for public policies and lastly the validation of the tool not only through institutions with the political will of the registry but also the building from the civil society having a political dialogue which is essential. In our case there were some conditions that were enabling for having these registers first of course having regulations adapted to our objective. So we're talking about public policies and all of these regulations are on this line. The procedures are established clearly and clearly communicated. We have it is binding with access to public policies. We also have experimental support and management structure trained personnel committed with family farming not only centralized but also in a decentralized manner so people that are related to family farming are related to the process. Then valid organizational structure and data infrastructure capacity. In the case of Uruguay we must think that we go from a series of previous registries that are part of these registries. So we have the identity of the individuals that's almost universal almost 100 percent and they all have their registry with their identification number. Then the rural disaster which was done many many years ago with all the rural information in which we have identified the registry of the ownership and also their productivity. We are a livestock country which basically has livestock on the land so it is important to also have that registry. And finally the registry of commercial activity which is very important for Uruguay so all productive units have their commercial registry or at least most of them. This also allows us to have control procedures for applying public policies. Without this it would be very complex for implementing public policies. And lastly the capacities of civil society organizations which help in controlling these processes not only social control but also support to implementation which is one of the strategies we have used. That social control allows organizations to collaborate with us in the process. There's an example of organization in the south of the country that does this process. And what are the consequences? Well a more efficient implementation of differentiated public policies focusing on sources on the strategic population and the capacity for public policy monitoring of family farming because we can know how many family farmers are accessing public policies. And other consequences that are indirect we have the registry as a display element of family farming. A few years ago we did a civilization registry campaign that allowed all people to feel identified with family farming which makes that collective building. And as a very high quality product is to have statistics and timely information. Not all registries can have all these characteristics but if they have coverage levels of high quality data if they have information regarding support management this way we can develop statistics and beyond census our registry is contributing fundamental information not only for executing and implementing public policies but also for designing these public policies because with our registry we can analyze where family farmers are what they dedicate to, what are they doing, what are the relationships between them, what organizations they belong to amongst others. And well that's it. Thank you very much and I am at your disposal for answering the questions you might have. Thank you very much, Fernando. These are key elements everything related to social participation, social control. In the previous two sessions we have also talked about that. There are previous stages of registry that are also part of this session and we see that all of these for many countries is important for the countries that are advancing in registries. We would like to remind you that we have simultaneous interpretation in this activity. There's a button down below with the shape of a globe and you can show the language you prefer in order to continue. I would like to give the floor to our following guests. Sorry if I don't pronounce your name correctly. She's in charge of the registry of Lebanon in the Agriculture Ministry of this country. She has very kindly accepted our invitation to this event. Mrs. Rima, you have the floor and you have 20 minutes to talk. I will let you know when you have five minutes left. Hello, hello everybody. Let me start by sharing my screen. So you can see my screen? Not yet. Now we are seeing it's just not in the full screen. Okay, okay. So I will be presenting the farmer registry in Lebanon in the registry but this is for all the farmers. This is our experience in Lebanon. Okay, just a small overview. Lebanon is a small country in the Mediterranean region, ultimate currency. I will give just also some information about the agriculture sector in Lebanon. So the total cultivated area in Lebanon is 230,000 hectares. So this is a small part maybe comparison to other countries. We have 1.3 hectares on the average holdings for agriculture holder and it splits almost between perennial and seasonal crops. Also to have an idea about the total number of farmers. So we have 170,000 farmers in Lebanon and the number of farmers hiring family labor it's most of them almost 116 and just to highlight also that only 42,000 have social security and you will see why I'm talking about this social security and having social protection also for the farmers. I will give also an overview about our national agriculture strategy for which is a five-year strategy developed within the Ministry of Agriculture and the two pillars of this strategy are directing us to prepare and work on a farmer registry. For the first pillar it will provide restoring the livelihoods and productive capacity of farmers and producers. So this is to ensure and facilitate access to inputs and to provide subsidies and vouchers maybe or loans or whatever access to subsidized maybe agribonds for the farmers and also the pillar five strengthening the enabling institution environment which has two programs in the first program create enabling conditions for the development of agriculture insurance also for the agriculture farmers and the second program develop a social protection system for vulnerable farmers, farm workers, producers and teachers and this is what guides us also and what to go for the establishment of a farmer registry in Lebanon. So why farmer registry in Lebanon because first of all farmers are not a formal profession in Lebanon so this is will allow to have the formalization of the sector to have farming as a profession to have a reliable source of information to get an easy tool to record control and update data also to be used for agriculture policy and agriculture sector management in general will be a very important tool to expand the social protection coverage for the farmers this will allow also and provide transparent and fair distribution of any support provided to the farmers or what or subsidies this will be used also as a shock and emergency response tool also for safety social safety nets and insurance and also whatever future and their operability between concerned public sector departments and institutions it was a very long journey for the establishment of our farmer registry it started many years ago at the beginning in 2010 and 2012 when we did our agriculture census general census and from this agriculture census we established at the beginning the statistical farm registry within the the Ministry of Agriculture and it was used as main source of data and information for all our activities then in 2016 a scoping mission for FAO for social protection as an entry point it was done and from this mission we get we we get more to understand how we can get to this to get social protection for the farmers so we found that we have an informal sector the agricultural sector is an informal sector we don't have social security or social protection for farmers for workers and this is going to be expanded to rural areas so in 2016 also to support or to improve our knowledge we get a study visit to France and to learn how they are dealing with their administrative farm registry there in 2017 also with FAO the pilot project small project was conducted into region and Lebanon and during this period 500 farmers were registered we understood well what is our what are our needs how we need to to to start for working and it was the first step preparation of draft law for the establishment of the farmer registry in 2018 in which we needed to define what is a farmer the activity the holding also the farmer registry as a function inside the ministry of agriculture because it wasn't included until now as an activity we didn't have the the define the roles and the responsibility inside our organization then we have the national agriculture strategy what I summarize this part for concerning the farmer registry in 2020 and this also emphasis also on the point to continue working for the establishment and for the farmer registry in 2021 within a new project financed by the EU and delivered with FAO we started the part of the project for the development of the farmer registry so we started with the business requirement and development of the farmer registry software so it was to we needed to design the system the architecture of the system to check what are the requirements what are the components to be included in this system where we need to put the hosting the requirements for the hardware needs also to be used for the systems or all this started in 2021 also in 2021 the draft law was also revised and sent to the parliament and referred to the commission of for for reviewing since that time in 2022 so we we had like a application the software almost developed so we started the testing with the users we started the training for ministry of agricultural staff the issue of the hosting was resolved because we needed to have an official body for the hosting as we are using with confidential data for the for the farmers and then while working also we had the issue of the electricity cut in Lebanon so this is a major problem in Lebanon and then we needed to equip all the agriculture centers where we wanted to do the registration with solar power and to have the internet connection and to have the electricity to be able to receive the farmers during the day and to do the registration and not to be stopped in February 2023 this year it was the launch of the farmer registry with a big national media campaign across Lebanon using tv's radio billboards on the roads and now in by end of September we had 65 000 pre-registration pre-registered farmer and 32 almost 32 farmers well registered in the system this is a very very good a good achievement for our farmer registry and for for us in the ministry of agriculture I will talk also about the structure of this of this farmer registry but because before going inside deep inside in it I need also to to to specify that the farmer registry we developed the software is composed of four modules the first one is the concerning having farmers farmers data and farmers likelihood conditions also farm data and farm asset and whatever information about the farm also we have another second component containing the land parcel and location identification data and this is a GIS based module also using the the special data the third module with the farmer registry is the farmer's targeting module this is to enable the creation of sub registries through the reclassification of farmers according to specific criteria and educators using screening or waiting and ranking process and all this using the information entered as the beginning in the farmer registry and also the four module for the voucher scheme management module and this is to allow us to provide for any specific voucher schemes or campaign and it will be issued automatically through the system going back now to the part of the farmer registry in itself so for the farmer registry process at the beginning the farmers need to do a pre-registration so the farmers will create an account and enter basic information about themselves to take an appointment what they will take an appointment then will come to the agriculture centers which are distributed all across Lebanon across Lebanon to register their land the farmers will locate their farm and complete the registration by providing farm workers like you would data for in these centers also they will be providing a proofing document because this is an administrative registry so need to provide for each information they provide they will need to provide the proofing document and when the registration is completed they will get a registration certificate after this there is a step or phase for the field verification and the Ministry of Agriculture will contact the validation of the data provided and when it's validated then the farmers will be provided by a with a farmer ID so this is an overview about the farmer pre-registration where we enter in the system and this is accessible from the web and the farmers will create their own account the farmer will fill just basic information and we said and the farmer will take an appointment to complete the registration using his mobile phone this is just to show you the distribution of the agriculture center among the country and this is the link to go and to do the pre-registration now in the farmer registry content itself so the farmer registry as we said it's this divided into two parts one part for the farmer where we have a unique identification of the farmer for each farmer we will have the farmer general data information about his family socio-economic data so livelihood level of education any kind of social insurance if you get out the worker data also and information about the farm with identification of the reference parcel and knowing that the data will be matched with ortho-photo and cadastral digital maps all incorporated in the in this software we entered also the classification of the agricultural land cover in the system the animal numbers also for the part of the animals with basic information will need to be entered and the machinery equipment is specifically for the year of production so these are the the the component of the farmer registry as we said we have the farmer data which includes the basic information contact address the household data like the food family farming could be included dwelling all the information and then the farm data which includes the land parcel we will have the map of the land mapping of the land drawing the map of the land the location the size on the crops if it's seasonal permanent greenhouse nursery so different as this level then for all the livestock will be entered animals poultry honeybees fisheries the asset machinery and part for the workers also in the farmer registry also we will have a part listing for the dashboard so when you enter the the the system we will have here listed all the farmers you can select one farmer enter this is for the employees and and we will have a dashboard and we can see directly for each region the different information added for the for the farmer data so we will have the farmer information as we said so this is just to show you just a figure about all what we have in the farmer data and also on the land parcel how it's drawn how it is delimited by the employee to define the area for each farmer when he's in the in the center with the farmer and this is done with the farmer also we have one part for the workers so this is the out of the of the registry itself and every time we need to add any information to be added here for the workers for the farm unit machinery animals whatever sector and for each for example even for the animals we have different sections depends on each what the farmer has as as information to provide this is this is more detail about the land and parcel identification so in the system we have the already we entered one layer with the cadastral map and with the delimitation of each zone and or each region also we have the satellite image even google map also to guide eyes to guide us and to guide the person who is doing the registration to find the the parcel he wants to to draw also the gps can enter the coordinates can be entered so that the system will take us directly to this parcel if we have these gps coordinates i want also to specify and that's why at the beginning we had some some concern for the for the hosting of the application or software because we are dealing with confidential data and within the ministry of agriculture we apply a confidential data policy so it was very important for us to have the hosting in an official institution and not with the private private sector company for example okay when we have the the the registration certificate so when the the farmer enter and provide all the document and so he's registered a registration certificate is provided and this is an example of the farmer it to be provided so this is just to to to have we saw already is this about the farmer registry module all the different element we have the dashboard the farmer registration basic farmer information and also this is to emphasize on the functionalities of the so the farmer will have a registration certificate farmer it the data will be important and exported within this this software and this is a powerful search engine with the dynamic reporting tool and also can be used for audit record management and we have a system administration and could work on it should be should working on it online but we could work on offline if we started already the online to finalize the registration already started this is I think my last my last slide but this is the main challenges we faced at the beginning for the establishment of the farmer registry so it was for the hosting part of the data as I said it was confidential data and with economic crisis we have in Lebanon so the server within the ministry of agriculture was down so we needed to find to find a real hosting body official hosting body we had also this is we need to work on it using internet and we have electricity issues so we talked about this and also it was a lot of complication with the software development in itself because there was not real a knowledge about the farmer registry to develop the software so this was also a look for us a long time to work with with the company now during the management of the of the farmer registry so we what we faced as main challenges is this is document complexity because for each holding this is there's a specificity and when we request a set of document sometimes there's specific document needed for this holding and not for this holding so each time you are updating the list and trying to find solution for is specific and for some areas we don't have maybe specific document or whatever and also we have some issues for the farmers to access the agriculture centers because some farmers are living very far and they will not come to register and they are not maybe convinced about this registry to come and to register and also for the land and parcel identification because the parcel 50% of the parcel are not digitized and to find the parcel and to draw it so this is also creating more complexity within for the management of the system and that is thank you thank you very much thank you very much was a very complete presentation with all the elements I would like to highlight that there is a process that took more than 10 years and there is an established call and there is a whole chain of facts and realizations that enabled the use of the registry and our colleague Stanga also mentioned that in his presentation before having the last presentation of this session I would like to say that we have simultaneous interpretation available so that you can choose the language that you want I would like to encourage you to make questions I see that there are some questions so that you can make your questions there at the end we will have some comments by the panelists about the questions but I see that Fernando is already answering some questions keep interacting because we are going to make the most of the time we have I would like to give the floor to our last panelist who is going to present the experience of Brazil we have with our hedges, wedges, already VEDA who is the family farm and cadastral coordinator of Brazil and who have the pro-temporary presidents of Mercosur Riav and who have been with us in all the meetings of the cycle you have for 20 minutes and I will make you know when your time is up. Thank you Pedro. I would like to thank you for giving me the opportunity of sharing the experience of Brazil regarding the registry of the family farming I would like to thank for the presentation of Fernando from UUAI and RIMA from Lebanon. These were pretty interesting experiences and we were able to see that Brazil has letting come on with these two previous presentations so it is always good to listen to what other countries are doing regarding this identification instrument regarding family farming here I am sharing my screen so today I would like to share some of the some of the history of the origin of the registry in Brazil the base of regulations that give these instruments a legal basis each relation with public policies mentioned by Fernando I think this is a focal point for the duration and sustainability of registries as instruments that are able to cover technical aspects the way we do the registry and explain how they are included into the database I will speak also I will talk about the electrical system and how the population in a general manner and the executors of public policies for family farming how they are able to access the data that are within the database and then the conclusion in which I will present challenges in the implementation of the registry we are implementing in Brazil which are common within the process there's no registry or system that's created and doesn't present challenges in its implementation so I think this is natural process and we would show that in Brazil we went through a process of changes recently in the case of Brazil I would like to share a fun fact the administrative registry of family farming was created by the central bank of Brazil in 1995 when a credit line was created specific for farmers it is called PRONAF a part of the national program of family farming strengthening this was created again in 1995 with a massive participation from the social movement of family farming involved in the process and to manage these credit lines we needed to identify those who are going to benefit from them this is where some criteria emerge to say who and who isn't a family farmer so this is when we start to see some clues regarding the size of the agriculture holding the workers and the production and the management that's done in a familiar manner but in accordance to the central bank they established who family farmers were and sometimes they even wrote a self declaration in which they say I name and last name declare myself a family farmer and this document was included into the credit line that was given by the bank with subsidies with resources from the state and this was given in other to cover a part of the taxes that were related to the credit line of the bank so this is related with the sustainability and how permanent the registry is and it is the origin that it is born from a public policy from 1995 until 2012 we worked with a registry called declaration of attitude to pronunce meaning the credit line created the 1995 the brazilian registry has a strong relation with the square this line throughout the 90s and the years 2000 with the creation of the the passing of the law of family agriculture so there were many public policies that were related to this specific target so we have run out the access to credit and access to a hold of public policies then when we identified the need to have a registry there was a decree that creates a disaster of a family farming that was implemented November last year this was made in 2017 and it only was implemented November last year so we can see that it took a long time and we see brazilian agriculture in an ample manner without being linked with the credit line or at least not that close in November last year we started with this then we started to work with the disaster of family family and today we see the 2.0 version of the system regarding regulations we have the law of family farming which was published in 2006 and here i would like to talk about the importance of the work that was conducted in draft for family farming in general but specifically for the registry along with uruguay which participated here today and other countries like paraguay chili i will not mention all of them but i think there we have a critical thinking mass for these instruments that was already explained by fernanda but i would like to emphasize the importance of such a space like draft for the debates of registries to say that besides our national regulations the laws and the decrees we also continue with resolutions and recommendations that were given in america for family farming besides this law we have some decrees and operational regulations regarding how the registry works for identifying family farming but so basically we want to follow three criteria the first one is related to the size of the land that's being exploited which is established at for established for modules and each area has a different size in hectares and we can say there's a maximum size then the workers mostly mainly familiar and the region of their economic activities must be mainly from other culture and lifestyle this way we can see who are the farmers in brazil and then we have the public policies i mentioned besides the credit line and here we have access the access of the political actions and then he will we will see who are using a registry as a base for the execution of these actions we have financing credits we have a policy for guaranteeing minimum prices for family farming a policy of agricultural insurance and accessibility to the market the reserve in the market where the market and public bodies that purchase food have the obligation of buying a percentage from family farming especially schools and preschools that operate through the national program of school food and then we have the production of fuel and its raw materials are bought through family farming programs of commercial promotion and then the public that is elected to participate in these fairs has to be registered as family farming then we have technical assistance and dual extension and two regulations that are very important for family farming which is is retirement of family farmers that function differently than other rural or agricultural people that retire through these instruments family farmers have access to all of these possibilities i just mentioned there are others but i will not mention them now but it's important to mention that each policy has its own regulation and the criteria of eligibility is to have a registry in the disaster and also you must request the active registry in the database of the disaster and it could also require other criteria like limits in the number of commercial family limits in the revenue they get once related to women they're also after the registry demands are done after the here i would like to mention the main characteristics or of the instrument the premises of the instrument first union one person can only be related to one disaster the family farmer has to be registered in the municipality of the city of the land they are mainly exploiting so it is the family land owned by the family that they are exploring this is free and this document has the validity of two years after it's activated in the database so once this registry is done and declared in the database it will be valid for two years but after this period the farmer has to update the disaster of what it was previously informed the process for signing up is decentralized we have a network which has the different unions of representation of interest of family farming and other associations therefore bodies that are representing family farming at a national level at a state level and at a city and municipality level we also have technical assistance with officers in each city the institution the national institute of agricultural reform they are the ones in charge of managing the disasters so those are part of the program of agricultural reform that are also considered family farming and lastly we recently included municipalities we started with a process of authorization of the local so municipalities do the disasters of agriculture at a local level we have over 8 000 technicians and human capital to act on behalf of these bodies at a local level these sites identifying family farmers I have already mentioned the agricultural reform those who are part of the credit line who are the ones who give a credit so um people can obtain a parcel agricultural workers indigenous people all of them are registered and also the economic organizations in family farming like entrepreneurship in rural agricultural cooperatives and any other association that are also recognized through the registry that way they can have access to credit or in order to participate in institutional purchases or markets and through these organizations they can have access to that our system is an electrical digital system we have a website where people from the uh disaster can log in they have a unique log in in order to have access to all systems of the federal government uh in gov dot er they have a unique blog with which they have access through their account unique account they enter the system and there they feel the form and the important part is that this form through our experience we realized it must be simple and brief as it was presented in the experience of live and on we also have registries and documents to verify the information that is being declared on the digital system we upload the information in the system so based on the criteria of the law on what was entered by the person everything is verified and that way the the farmer and the process of registration you can see our registry it has three potential situations a registry that is active and gives you access to public policies that are destined to the unity of the family farming in active status means that they need to update their information to have an active status again or that they started the registry work registration process but they didn't finish it and that's why it appears as inactive and then we have a registry that is blocked and they exist because sometimes there's a denunciation for from a citizen or when it was edited we open an investigation to evaluate if the data that appear on the system actually corresponds to reality and during that period of evaluation that registration is suspended a registry that can be activated or deactivated in a definite way and this will depend on the result of the investigation then we have a website sorry a page in which you can do a public consultation to check the data of that registry I can check the judicial judicial legal consultation and I will will enter the specific unique number for that farmer and that way we can check if they have an active registry in our database or no this was done a public consultation that was made having in my social control so this can be done with a legal or a natural person this is related with the management of private data and that way we can have a more social control let's think about it the entities that are using our registry for their actions and there exists a different format here you can see the website here you can see the bank that offer credit lines and they will enter a web service and here you have the data of the natural person you are consulting and using this information you will see if they have an active registry in our database you can do other consultations like the ones done by the central bank who will validate credit lines done by financial institutions it can also be done by the ministry of education because they are the ones in charge of the national plan of school foods which is a program of family agriculture that offers its products for the different municipalities and schools so we must take into account the complexity of the systems that feed all of the identity that are using the data that are in our registry to apply public policy as explained by the Lebanon we need to specify that we have an ID of the family farmer and we have a great amount of data of that registry we can see here a picture of the ID issued at the end of the registration process in our database to finish with my presentation I would like to show you the importance of the family agriculture in Brazil in the last agricultural census we had as a result at 77% of the establishments in Brazil are considered of family farmers this represents 67% of people working in the rural area of Brazil we're talking about around 80 million people rural agriculture it's about 100 hectares and what we see here is the current system that was implemented first we had some problems during implementation and we have this phase that we have called CAF 1.0 we made some improvements in the system and we were able to improve the performance of the system and since May of this year we have registered we had 70,000 new people entered in our databases for each month that is a total of 3 million families we have to think that we have two registers the active code nav declaration who are active even if we don't issue this document anymore many of these documents are still valid and we need to include the other registry which is the one to which I made reference where we have already 640,000 new people registered I would like to make reference to the challenges that we faced when we thought about a tool of this type this document needs to be inclusive and cannot barrier for people to be registered in the system we need to improve the way in which we register our farmers so that we decrease the requirements especially requirements related to data that are actually in the hands of the state we need to think about a simple document to which the farmer has access this document needs to be thought always thinking about the family farmer we need to use other databases for this document for example data coming from the civil registry for example I'm not going to ask the farmer to enter the name if I'm linked to the civil registry I'm going to obtain the name by using the id number of the farmer and I'm going to consult other databases this registry needs to be updated periodically I cannot have registry that is too complex and registry that we cannot update because otherwise in three or four years those who are going to implement public policies will require updated data of the condition of this family when it is too complex this is going to become an obstacle that is not going to allow us to update the registry and have reliable data farmers need to understand the importance of the document and the public policy executors need to trust that those data in the registry are reliable in brazil we have a phrase that we always use that we need to work always in a transparent manner so that we can have a social control through a valuable instrument for family farming like this instrument I think that was all Pedro and I'm here to answer any question that you may have thank you very much it was a very detailed presentation and it is a process of almost 20 years and which starts linked to a policy the policy of family farming credits and the evolution of the process improves the tool and it is linked with other policies and strategies of the sector I think that the three presentations are in the line of having a linkage to the inclusion strategy of the family farming sector that is the great message that we can take of the presentations I think we have some questions some questions were already answered by Fernando and I have a couple of questions to me a job especially related to what documents are requested for the registration who does the registration in Lebanon and how do they reach 100% of the farmers and also one question related to the information about the plots in terms of animal plants and others how often is this updated and how is it done and who manages the database a third question also directs the one case is if inside there is any types of differentiation between the different production types in terms of size of the production or other features and the general question for everybody Fernando answered this question already in line with the linkage that these registries may have with other policies is it possible to comment about your experience on the potential linkage of family farming registries with initiatives that promote agroecology besides these questions I see that we have a hand raised by Adriana Guzman I don't know if we can activate her mic because we have some issues of connectivity in the regional office if possible we can do it so she can address some of the questions and then Raji Singh Fernand so first Mrs. Hayar and then Rami Sif and Fernand you have the floor okay so to answer the first question regarding the document needed so especially we need for the farmer ID or passport or whatever to identify the farmer also a justified document for the ownership of the land if it's a own so document for owning the land or rent the land or contract of renting with the duration of the renting of the land for the animals we need a statement from provided for by the municipality or the mayor to state the number of the animals and which type of animals we have if the this is a association or company or a farm so any official document to justify the the existing of this far for the second question concerning who manage the database and the update so the database is managed as I said by by the ministry of agriculture and it is hosted in in an official institution and we have the central in the central sorry in Beirut so we are all the data are collected to the central and central unit who manage and check all the information in in the system also the update it's done normally whenever the farmer have new crops because it's important for the farmer to declare also what kind of crops he has because if we have any program with any subsidies to be provided so need to focus on which he has so it's important for him to it's more important for the farmer also to come and to update his information if within four years the information is not updated and we don't have any news from the farmer then at the time the farmer is considered inactive in the system but it's not deleted so it's kept it's kept in the in the system for the which level it's we we we enter the information so the the data for example we enter is a leguminous crop if it's a permanent crop we have the to the level that we can identify which crop we have using the for example we can separate between tomato and cucumber so this is this is vegetables so we can register for the farmer he has this land and cultivated with vegetables but we can say we can differentiate a banana from olive olive trees so this can we can go at this level for the registration for the areas of the land but not for the production so we don't have information about the production if this is the question related to the quantities produced it's only the cultivated areas I hope that you like thank you very much uh for all the answers and uh if there is anyone who has any other questions I will have a second round if if needed Fernando I give you the floor Fernando I know that you have already answered some questions but if you want to add a comment and they talk about the linkage between other policies and agroecology so Fernando you have the floor yes no basically the case of public procurement and year-wide we have a linkage we have a specific registry person to the law for an organization of family farming this is part of the family farming registry which facilitates a person to love organizations access to the market reserve for products there is a law enabling the state to purchase within a reserve margin from the organizations who have a supply and as for agroecology it depends on the instruments in this moment we have a specific call uh for agroecology transition actions and that call is addressed to the registered farmers the groups of farmers who are going to have technical assistance and financial assistance need to be registered in the registry that is the linkage that we have with the actions and each instrument is developed in accordance with our needs that's why it is important not only to have the registry but also the instrument of public policy linked to the registry perfect thank you very much and now I give the floor to Hages I would you like to talk about the linkage to public policies and the potential linkage regarding the public in the farmers of registry well going back to the linkage the linkage that there may be with other public policies regarding agroecology in the registry there is no a variable identifying that the family farmer is agroecologic however there is a guideline coming from the ministry today and the family farming and agroecology secretariat is a secretariat that is focused in on actions to strengthen family farming based on agroecology just to give you an example through the registry there is now linkage however there are some financing lines which are specific for example for agroecological farming and it is the same case with technical assistance there are public contests for technical assistance for those who are working on agroecology so agroecology as I see it is a very important issue when we think about implementation of public policies for family farming I think that this is something that could be discussed at some point when we talk about the registry but I see today as the registry as a general instrument that is the basis for other many policies to be developed so that we can identify in a certain manner the audience that is part of this family agriculture I would like to give the floor I couldn't we couldn't give the floor to Alejandra Guzmán you can leave your question in writing on the chat with this we finish this first edition of the cycle before closing we would like to bring our main partners for this space so that they can make some final remarks we have the honor to receive here ambassador Mario Arvello who is the permanent representative from the Dominican Republic in the UN agencies in Rome and also member of the committee of the UN a decade for family farming and all these events that we organize are within the framework of implementation of the UN decade on family farming it is a pleasure to have ambassador Arvello you have the floor so that you can make a final remark thank you very much for your time and availability thank you very much and thanks to all participants I have learned a lot during this session it is an honor and pleasure to address you from the presidents of the international committee of the UN decade on family farming it is very important to have this third session of the cycle of exchanges on experiences of family farming registries this space is very special in the UN decade on family farming efforts to improve the sustainability of agricultural systems we are promoting better public policies to support family farming within the framework of the UN decade to preserve the natural resources and to contribute to rural sustainable development towards poverty eradication within the framework of the seven pillars of the decade and the 2030 agenda for sustainable development we know that family farmers are protecting the traditional practices and knowledge and they are heading the efforts to tackle global challenges like climate change and so family farming registries are a key tool because they allow us to understand the needs and the challenges in the different regions and contexts it is good to say that registries are not only databases they are alive instruments useful instruments to boost a positive change because they allow governments particularly the policymakers and the interested parties to address the design and implementation of policies and strategies to empower family farmers improve on their livelihoods and strengthening their resilience the registries as we have heard by with the panelists to share their experience these registries ensure effectiveness and transparency of resource allocation and improve governance so reaching their decades go require more than theoretical and framework and policy recommendations which are essential too but we need to work in the field we have made for the third time this exchange and this exchange spaces are essential this is a meaning that provides a platform for that the policymakers meet the experts the professionals with whom they are working with the family farmers and all these data collection to share experiences and to learn from one another from the others these events are essential to improve our understanding of the dynamics of family farming and identify innovation parts especially the implementation of farming registries what i want to say to you conclude that this dialogue has not been a theoretical um exercise we have heard theoretical things but this is a meeting with a practical approach and shows the cooperation spirit with which we work in the united nations they get our cooperation and my work in the un consists in mobilizing political capital not only an international level also at the regional level like the case of and in central america which can create a more favorable environment for the different family farmers and we have mechanisms working with different countries now in the importance of family farmer and registries i would like to tell you that the international management committee is very thankful to the joint secretariat fau fida and all the foreigners who have contributed to the success of this meeting together we can have a different a different reference important difference in the lives of family farmers so that they can have the recognitions that they deserve thank you for your dedication to the cause of family farming thank you very much ambassador my fellow for being with us and obviously for all the support we have done with the secretariat of the decade to implement the pillars and the actions and that's why we're here now i would like to invite mrs melisa ugalde part of the secretariat of the secac the secretariat of secac with which we have been working jointly to strengthen the regional integration in central america and of course family farming so melisa thank you very much for being here and thank you for the support you have given to the organization of this cycle so now i give you the floor thank you very much first i would like to convey my greetings to all participants and the speakers we have had during this three web minutes we have developed and i would like to also convey the greetings from lucasia rodriguez the executive secretary here today but i have her greetings i would like to thank fio for taking into account the framework of the decade of family farming and especially in the sub-regional work that we have been doing since a few years in order to benefit the sector of family farming the pillar which is in order to create a political environment that's in favor of family farming the topic of registry as you have expressed both the because we had today and because we had in the previous sessions we have had the representation from panama in which they already have a public policy of family farming all of those lessons we have learned that sales cases and objectives that show the importance of family farming we in the region are still working in the implementation and creation and the awareness of ministry of agriculture so they are aware of the importance of having those histories at a national level we also had the opportunity of having changes with draft because they have already moved forward in the past and we would like to continue working in the cooperation environment and that way we will be able to have these registries and have such an important instrument to create differentiated public policies for the benefit of the field of family farming once again i would like to thank you for all your work in the framework of the decade of family farming and it is very important for us to continue working bringing awareness to our authorities so they understand the importance of having these instruments so thank you once again and we will continue moving forward thank you melisa yes we must recognize the effort that has been done in central america to have this regional plan of the decade and all of the effort you have been doing in order to implement it facilitating changes of ideas knowledge practices regarding family farming i will now directly go with the secretary of the mercosure the reas the specialized meeting on family farming of mercosur who has been working along with us and providing the support of mercosur i will give you the floor now thank you very much thank you fau thank you melisa we are doing a massive work in our region and i think that's the important thing i would like to just highlight that this cycle of exchanges allow us to accumulate to work with more strength and a clear direction along with the president in brazil that has an impact we are amidst a moment in which our societies require accountability require transparency and to know where the budget public budget is being invested in and this has allowed us that registries are a medium as it was said by rami by by rima by ui and it explains why we must increase support to family farming something that was mentioned i would like to emphasize is that it requires interoperability at the level of our states we need we have needs not only related to households but also to climate change to climate anxious action to infrastructure and this not only depends on our ministries of agriculture but they also depend on how we have interoperability in the state how we link with other institutions which is so important when responding to those needs registries are allowing us to have interoperability allowing us to have a fluid dialogue and allow us to have an improved communication with other areas of the of the government that have any response for our field and the framework of the decade the registry all the seven pillars are like a big engine or well eight in some cases the registries allow us to consolidate this mechanism and have actions with a path in the framework of the 2030 agenda and family farming so just congratulations for reaching such a high level and showing what our countries have showed i would like to congratulate rima i enjoyed the experiences of libanon we had superficial information but today we could knew the situation in a in a deeper manner so i encourage you to continue working on registries so we can facilitate access to public policies because that's what family registries family farming registries for public differentiated policies so thank you thank you very much once again thank you laudato and now i would like to thank again the ministry of agriculture and family farming from red wheel who have the who are part of riaf and have the contemporary presidency of marcosur everyone from the ministry that have supported the development of this activity and in order to finish i would like to give the floor regional to in representation or on behalf of the regional director please in the office of fio for latin america and the caribbean with but don't say you have the floor thank you pedro i would like to start by thanking everyone that are here and have been in the two cycles of activities this activity is marked in the technical platform platform of family farming which is an initiative of the fio and it is our responsibility in the regional office of latin america and the caribbean and it is an instrument that's a judge disposal for implementing the global action the key plan it facilitates governments organizations the scientific community all the interest is stakeholders to have a space for dialogue for sharing experiences that allow us to promote innovation that's why we wanted to include experiences from all regions of the world in this first edition and that's why we started with registries because this is the door to have more public policies the base of the platform allows us to connect the pillars recognizing the voices of the government the produce organizations that so this first edition has experiences from panama brazil uruguay jordan lebanon korea kenya and we understood how all countries had advanced and offered solutions that are multi-sectorial and offered solutions to those needed we saw how no matter the context there are common challenges so that's why it is key to facilitate these spaces that allow to have dialogue as it was said by our ambassador arbello and thank you very much for being with us in dialogue feo we have been working in helping countries to develop this resilient and sustainable agenda within family farming so it is key to continue implementing differentiated actions that will allow us to accept a certain appeal in that sense i said we have chosen for this first cycle to advance in the development of registry which is an essential tool to connect government strategies with the real needs of the field we have learned but it is possible to articulate differentiated public policies that are efficient and relevant and meet in a comprehensive way the needs of family farming there's no magic formula there are multiple paths we can go through but we realize it is important to have political will and collective action only with the cooperation of multiple spec holders we will be able to have public policies and tools that will power family farmers and that way we will have a transforming agenda that will drive the values the contributions of family farming and the look for inclusive and sustainable development so i would like to thank the great support that we got from the secretariat from the agricultural council thank you to all the colleagues the temporary presidency of raff america sure the from brazil who have supported us in building these activities of course the technical secretariat and to thank pedro and every we know it is possible to do this kind of exchanges and it is important to have dialogue between regions and lastly just thank you all for your time your commitment let's continue working together family farming is a pillar for a more sustainable inclusive our resilient future for all of us thank you thank you all of you maybe today's session of family farming registries remember we are going to public the recordings of this cycle and this previous one we will put the link in the chat and we will do a system administration of the data of everyone that was that were with us today so thank you very much for being here and i hope you have a great day today thank you again