This dialogue forum enables the sharing of knowledge on initiatives that link small-scale agriculture and rural MSMEs with public food procurement, as well as their integration with various actors along value chains—primarily through commercial partnerships with stronger actors in those chains and the differentiation of attributes related to origin.

On the one hand, public food procurement has the potential to influence consumption and production patterns and can facilitate fairer trade for family farming production. It can positively affect the types of food purchased by promoting food and nutrition security, while also strengthening the livelihoods of family farmers and environmental sustainability, depending on the production methods used.

On the other hand, intervention models such as Productive Alliances demonstrate positive results by reducing risks and transaction costs through the building of trust among parties, improving access to technical and financial assistance services, and fostering the adoption of innovations. This confirms that when enabling conditions are created, family farmers can leverage their natural advantages and benefit from certain public policy instruments, as well as from interventions driven by international cooperation, civil society, and/or the private sector. These efforts can help them mitigate the risk of adverse impacts due to increased competition.

This space offers an opportunity to disseminate experiences from such contexts and to encourage the analysis of the positive outcomes of integrating family farming into markets that recognize and reward attributes associated with the origin of their products and services.

These exercises are expected to generate inputs for managing a new generation of public policies, informed by a forward-looking analysis of the factors that condition and enable these experiences, as well as their adaptation and scaling.