CoAct Database

Forest and Farm Facility

The Forest and Farm Facility provides direct financial support and technical assistance to strengthen forest and farm producer organizations representing smallholders, rural women’s groups, local communities and indigenous peoples’ institutions. Collectively, forest and farm producers have the potential to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and to respond to climate change at landscape scales. A partnership between FAO, IIED, IUCN and AgriCord, the Forest and Farm Facility is funded by Sweden, Germany, the United Kingdom, Finland, the United States of America, the Netherlands and IKEA.

Activity period	2012–present
Last CoAct update	2025
Web URL	https://www.fao.org/forest-farm-facility
Output effectiveness	0.23
Accountability Index	0.82
Inclusiveness Index	0.40
Num. actors	12
Functions	Technical implementation, Institutional capacity building, Standards and norms, Campaigning, Lobbying, Training, Funding, Policy planning
SDGs
Themes	land use
Policy focus	Equal focus
Sectors	Agriculture, forestry and fishing
Implementation countries	Bolivia (Plurinatinal State of)

Target	Target type
In total these FFPOs represent more than 30 million forest and farm producers.	People/countries affected target
The first Phase of the FFF (from December 2012 to December 2017) has focused on strengthening FFPOs as a primary unit, delivering major impacts through support to 937 FFPOs on the ground in 10 countries: Bolivia, Guatemala, Liberia, Kenya, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicaragua, The Gambia, Vietnam and Zambia.	Organisations engaged target
FFF has facilitated the establishment of (or greater FFPO representation) in 51 policy platforms at national or regional level, and contributed directly to 30 significant policy changes.	Organisations engaged target
FFF support has directly reached 947 FFPOs: three global, three regional, 10 national and 931 local or provincial (comprising 21-79 percent women depending on country/region) and indirect support to many hundreds more	Organisations engaged target
In 2022, the Facility achieved significant milestones under its four outcomes, including the ongoing restoration of 161 993 ha of forested landscapes	Area target
The execution of 430 business-related training events with 692 staff trained in business incubation	Economic target
and the delivery of about 25 percent more to grassroots organizations in 2022 (a total of USD 5.29 million) than in 2021 (USD 4.23 million).	Economic target
In 2022, the Facility achieved significant milestones under its four outcomes, includingcthe improvements in 125 subnational or national policies, processes and decisions in favour of forest and farm producer organizations.	Other target