The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) will mark 2014 as International Year of Family Farming, which aims to raise the profile of family farming and smallholder farming by focusing world attention on its significant role in eradicating hunger and poverty, providing food security and nutrition, improving livelihoods, managing natural resources, protecting the environment, and achieving sustainable development, especially in rural areas. The International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) reports that smallholder farms grow 70 percent of the world’s food, but 50 percent of the world’s hungry are small farmers. With farmers’ livelihoods threatened by the droughts, floods, storms and other consequences of climate change, organic agriculture offers a science-based solution that can address these problems and help family and small farms prosper. For example, research conducted by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) in 2008 suggests that organic farming can outperform traditional and chemical-intensive methods, without the environmental and social damage. An analysis of 114 projects across 24 African countries found that yields had more than doubled where organic practices were used, with yields jumping to 128 per cent in East Africa.