Dear friends
We are writing to ask if you would help us gather information from people and organisations concerned with sustaining agricultural biodiversity for food provision. We are looking for reports and case studies that describe how small-scale food providers manage and develop agricultural biodiversity in their food production and harvesting systems, the challenges they face and how they are mobilising to enable them to sustain and improve biodiversity for food and agriculture for use today and by future generations.
We are asking for this information, from organisations and networks of small-scale food producers, and from CSOs and scientists who work with them, so that it can contribute to a CSO report for the “FAO’s State of the World’s Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture” – the first report of its kind that intends to break down the silos of sectoral approaches and take a comprehensive approach for all biodiversity for food and agriculture across all sectors and food-producing ecosystems.
We are making this request on behalf of the agricultural biodiversity working group of the IPC for food sovereignty that has been asked by FAO to produce a report, by the end of the year, with the working title of “The contribution made by farmers, pastoralists, forest dwellers, fishers and other small-scale food providers to the conservation, development and sustainable use of biodiversity for food and agriculture.” The IPC working group aims to base this study on relatively recent experiences of food producers and their networks.
This is why we are asking for your assistance in collecting information from practitioners, using the attached questionnaire, or by sending us links to recent studies, examples and evidence/testimonies about their experiences and analyses.
We are working to a short timeline and would really appreciate an answer soon, by the end of October, with any information that will help us develop this report. Attached is a note explaining more about this process and the report we are preparing.
If there is anything you would like to discuss about this process or further information you would like, please do not hesitate to contact us.
We are very grateful in anticipation for your help.
In solidarity
On behalf of the IPC working group
Patrick Mulvany
Bob Ali Brac de la Perrière
Maryam Rahmanian