Public policies and family farming in Latin America and the Caribbean: New perspectives

This document brings together a set of case studies and a cross-cutting analysis of public policies for family farming in eleven Latin American countries, complemented by an interpretative essay on the implications for public policies arising from the main international events of the International Year of Family Farming in Latin America. It addresses the situation of family-based agriculture in each of those countries and the evolution of policies focused on family farming or having a direct impact on it, as well as the definitions, typologies and instruments used to guide and implement those policies. Finally, it assesses their results and impacts, their current outlook and the main challenges facing those policies and the family farms in the hemisphere. This collective effort, in which some thirty authors participated, was promoted by the Public Policies and Rural Development in Latin America Network, with the support of CIRAD, ECLAC and IICA.