What will you eat tomorrow…
… If 500 million small-hold farmers stopped producing food?
Join Spowdi at World Water Week
Session: Resilient Food Production & Water: Small-hold Farmers as Impact Generators
When: August 29th, 09:00-10:30
Where: Room A4, level 6 at the Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre (and online)
Session ID: 11781
About the session
What will you eat tomorrow if 500 million farmers stop producing food?
It’s a hard question and one we would like to address head on. Water is a vital resource for food production. But water resources are under evident stress in many food producing areas, such as parts of Asia and Africa.
By 2050 as the population reaches 10 billion, world food production will have to grow at least 50 percent to meet rising demands, requiring 30 percent more water than today, making current ways of food production untenable.
The most impacted are the world’s 500 million small-hold farmers who produce one-third of the food globally, and up to 80 percent of the food consumed in developing countries.
Small-hold farmers can be Impact Generators provided they have access to the right resources and technologies to kickstart the impact.
‘Impact Generators’ Sangitaben Rathod, Bhavnaben and Faiji Bhai have done just that, and their first-person accounts will be shared at the session. However, they are among a few hundred of the 500 million small-hold farmers who have pioneered the transition. How do we create an eco-system that not just enables but accelerates the transition to a more resilient food production system? How do we move the needle from a few hundred to tens of thousands of Impact Generators? What are the gaps and how do we fix them?
Apart from sharing real and measured the impact that has been generated by small-hold farmers in food producing regions by adopting innovative, green technologies, the session will also take a closer look at the access gap and explore pathways to facilitate access.
The desired outcome is to take the conversation beyond the session into action towards bringing interested stakeholders and actors together to create a Smart Farming ecosystem for future-proofing food production. We invite our speakers and members of the audience, especially NGOs, development sector representatives, implementation partners, grant-making and financial institutions to engage with us as Impact Enablers to help small-hold farmers become Impact Generators.
About Spowdi
Spowdi aims to empower small-hold farmers with sustainable farming practices, thereby enabling them to generate an impact that is essential for mitigating climate change, as well as poverty and hunger. That is what we would like to call climate-smart farming.