National Action Plan for the Development of Family Farming in the Kyrgyz Republic for 2023-2028.

The following long-term goal of the NAP was formulated: Creation of favourable conditions for the sustainable development of family farms and rural communities, ensuring the growth of the welfare of citizens, improved food security of the country and the achievement of the goals of the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda in the Kyrgyz Republic. The goal of the NAPDFF will be achieved through a number of measures in the following priority areas: Priority 1: Creating an enabling policy environment for the development of family farming. Priority 2: Supporting youth and ensuring intergenerational sustainability of family farming. Priority 3: Promote gender equality in family farming and rural women's leadership. Priority 4: Strengthen the capacity of family farmers' organizations to represent their interests, accumulate and share knowledge and provide services to farmers. Priority 5: Improve socio-economic conditions and well-being of family farmers, rural communities and households. Priority 6: Strengthening the climate resilience of family farming for sustainable food systems in a changing climate. Priority 7: Supporting family farming for innovation that contributes to the sustainability of the development of territories and food systems, the conservation of biodiversity, the environment and culture. The National Action Plan on the Development of Family Farming, developed within the frames of the UNDFF implementation in Kyrgyzstan, is aimed at accelerating coordinated joint, consistent and comprehensive actions aimed to support family farming, which are key participants in the sustainable development process. Given the wide heterogeneity of family farming, it is difficult to find uniform policy prescriptions for all family farms and implement all the necessary actions at once. Therefore, gradual implementation, collection of information on achievements and problems, monitoring and evaluation are needed to adjust the measures and strategies used. In order to effectively support family farming, their geographical and socio-economic characteristics have been taken into account and specially targeted interventions have been developed that are applicable to all and target the specific characteristics of the respective groups of family farmers. This action plan on family farming will make a significant contribution to further implementation of the UN Decade of Family Farming in the Kyrgyz Republic.