GCARD2. The Voice of Smallholders in Shaping Priorities. Chapter F3 of the report on The state of foresight in food and agriculture and the roads toward improvement

How can the voices of the farmers, in particular smallholders shape priorities through foresight? Given that smallholders represent a very large number of individuals with diversity of situations, their individual voices can hardly be incorporated on an individual basis. From the local to the global level, their voices can only be included through their representative organisations. For their voices to shape priorities, the role of farmers’ organisations in foresight has to go beyond a consultative posture and extend to the initiation or co-leadership of foresight studies directly addressing the issues on which they think there is the need to better understand future evolutions.