The Asian Farmers Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) will be conducting an in-person training to capacitate its country data […]
Industrial agriculture is devastating our land, water, and air, and is now threatening the sustainability of the biosphere. Its massive chemical and biological inputs cause widespread environmental havoc as well as human disease and death. Its monoculturing reduces the diversity of our plants and animals. Its habitat destruction endangers wildlife. Its factory farming practices cause untold animal suffering. Its centralized corporate ownership destroys farm communities around the world, leading to mass poverty and hunger. The industrial agriculture system is clearly unsustainable. It has truly become a fatal harvest.
We are small-scale women, men, and young family farmers from 13 organizations in 9 countries, members and partners of the […]
In 2022, AFA partnered with the Global Forum on Agricultural Research and Innovation (GFAR) and Agricultural Research Associations (APAARI) in […]
Land conflict issues in the Philippines, especially the problem of overlapping claims on land tenure, have greatly affected smallholder farmers, […]
Background The recently held UN Food Systems Stocktaking Moment highlighted the enormous contribution of food systems transformation to solving many […]
The Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA), Pambansang Kilusan ng mga Samahang Magsasaka (PAKISAMA), and the National Land […]
PHILIPPINES – More than 300 Dumagat-Remontado natives, and residents of Quezon and Rizal from different sectors will walk from Gen. […]