World Farmers' Organisation

Researcher Annette Schramm of the University of Tübingen in Germany in 2017 voiced criticism of the WFO for acting as a successor to the now-defunct IFAP, with its focus on representing middle-class to rich farmers from the Global North, and a threat to the Civil Society Mechanism,[1] (now Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples' Mechanism (CSIPM)), an autonomous part of the United Nations Committee on World Food Security.

[3][7][8] Robert Carlson of the United States was president of the WFO before the election of Peter Kendall of the United Kingdom in March 2014,[9] but resigned in October 2014 owing to being appointed to a UK government post.

[13] After her resignation on 22 September 2016, WFO vice-president William Rolleston, president of the Federated Farmers of New Zealand, stepped into the acting role.

[12] On 13 June 2017, South African farmer Theo de Jager was elected president.

He had led the Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions since 2013, and had also had a stint as president of the Pan-African Farmers' Organisation.