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International Year of Family Farming 2014 Photo Competition

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This award, organised by World Rural Forum (WRF) and AgriCultures Network, focuses on the decisive role of family farming in the sustainable production of 70% of the world's food and in the conservation of ecosystems and biodiversity. The International Year of Family Farming (IYFF) 2014 photo competition collects visual expressions to build stronger recognition and support for family farming, and encourage broad participation in the IYFF. The jury will choose seven winning photographs: one first prize and six second prizes, one for each continent. Five "popular choice" photos will be selected by the public through an online voting system. The winning photos will be announced at the end of October 2014 during a special IYFF event. Winners will receive cash prizes, 400 Euros for the first place photo; 200 Euros for each second place photo; and 100 Euros for each 'popular choice'.

The competition calls for photos that visualise the strength, potential, and contributions and challenges of sustainable, multifunctional family farmers worldwide, in all their diversity. The photos should express that family farming is a means of organising agricultural, forestry, fisheries, pastoral, and aquaculture production which is managed and operated by a family and predominantly reliant on non-wage family labour, including both women's and men's. According to the organisers, the family and the farm are linked, co-evolve and combine economic, environmental, reproductive, social and cultural functions.

Click here for more information about the competition.

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Registration information:
The photo competition is open to everyone. The organisers encourage farmers, women, and young people to participate. Entries can be submitted online, or by sending your photo to photocompetition@ruralforum.net.

Participants may submit up to 3 photos. The images cannot have been awarded in other contests before the decision of the jury, or commercially exploited, whether for news, advertising or otherwise.

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Agricultures Network website on March 5 2014.