Inappropriate policy can be a major cause of poverty and environment destruction. In the policy level, advocacy and lobbying is needed in national level as well as international level. DPF in July 27th, 2012 has just granted a special consultative status with ECOSOC of United Nations in a letter sent by United Nations, Non-Governmental Organizations Branch, Office for ECOSOC Support and Coordination, signed by Mr. Andrei Abramov, Chief of The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA). In this function, DPF aim is to overcome poverty and environmental problems globally (especially deforestation, climate change and global warming) by contributing suggestions, findings from research, project experience, and research solutions through international network and UN.

The General Scope Background

There are many reasons why food scarcity continues to be a problem. They include: underinvestment in agriculture, mismanagement of agriculture policy and food policy, higher oil prices, increased demand for food due to fast population growth, droughts etc.

As a result, civil society groups should be allowed to play a greater role so that they can work toward their objective of creating a more egalitarian and democratic society.

At the micro-level, the target groups of the project (small farmers and entrepreneurs) are faced with a broad range of problems that are not that much different from the problems experienced by small farmers and entrepreneurs in some other parts of the world. In general, it is difficult for them to make a decent livelihood. They continue to rely on traditional methods that allow them to survive but not to develop further. Moreover, they are usually dependent on more powerful parties and have poor information about the market. In many cases, they try to find individual solutions for their problems whereas cooperation would be a better option.

The Purpose Strategy

To find solutions to global poverty and environmental problems (especially deforestation and climate change) by working on three levels:

• At the grass-roots level of society: to improve skills in organizational management, economic, social and environmental matters - in an effort to create a more egalitarian society.
• The intermediate level: associations, cooperatives, whereby the community comes together to fight for a common goal.
• At the environmental level: to lobby policymakers in the country and internationally though UN bodies in order to create favorable policies that will help protect the global environment.