Young Women and Men Farmers As Advocates for Sustainable, Resilient, Gender Sensitive Agri-Forest Based Livelihoods: Young Farmers for Farms in Forests, Forests in Farms
REGIONAL EXCHANGE AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT FAIR
October 2-3, 2020 Philippine Standard Time
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Introduction
Honing young farmers as leaders and advocates for sustainable, resilient, and gender-sensitive agri-forest-based livelihoods is one of the strategies AFA is employing to reverse the ‘graying’ of the agricultural sector. Through the support of the Forest and Farm Facility (FFF) of the Food and Agriculture Organization, the organization aims to strengthen the voice and the advocacy capacities of young women and men farmer leaders of forest and farm producer organizations in (FFPOs) in 9 countries in the region. The project includes the establishment of Young Farmers Committees within the FFPOs, and the development and promotion of Young Farmers action plan to advocate for sustainable, resilient, and gender-sensitive agri-forest-based livelihoods within the framework of the UN Decade on Family Farming (UNDFF).
Young farmer leaders are also provided with an avenue to organize themselves, learn from each other’s experiences, and participate in decision-making and policy-formulation processes at the country and regional level. On October 2 and 3, 2020, a virtual regional exchange and knowledge management fair, with the following objectives:
- Provide a platform to share their experiences in promoting sustainable, resilient, and gender-sensitive agri-forest based livelihoods, as well as their initiatives to respond to the impacts of COVID-19 in the sector;
- Provide a venue to share and find common synergies in their Young Farmers Action Plans, and identify strategies to sustain these plans and their roles in their respective FFPOs; and
- Provide an entry-point for cooperation at the regional level, through the:
a. Identification of their mandates, functions, and responsibilities of regional YFC;
b. Selection of regional young farmer leaders who will represent the YFCs in the GA and Execomm;
c. Finalization the 5-year operations plan for AFA’s Young Farmers Agenda
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PROGRAM OF ACTIVITIES
Day 1: 02 October 2020 (Friday)
| Time
(Manila time) |
Session | Activity | Methods | Speaker/Facilitator |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Pre-activity | AFA video showing (submissions to the YF dance challenge) | Video presentation | |
| 11:00 – 11:20 | Opening Activities
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– Introduction of participants
– Activity objectives and program flow – Expectation-setting – Opening remarks |
Plenary | Myline Macabuhay
Ms. Esther Penunia |
| 11:20 – 12.30 | Session 1: Young Farmers’ Experiences, Initiatives and Action Plans (Objective 1) – (Public)
|
Presentation of PAKISAMA YFC
Presentation of NUWUA YFC Presentation of NAMAC YFC Presentation of AFFM YFC Presentation of LFN YFC |
10-minute presentations
Q&A |
PAKISAMA
NUWUA NAMAC AFFM LFN |
| Presentation of Saka Eskuwela | Ferdie Buenviaje, AFOSP NIA Phils Coordinator | |||
| 12.30 – 13.00 | Health break | Video presentation (ILC-Asia) | ||
| 13.00 – 14.00 | Presentation of FNN YFC
Presentation of CTCF YFC Presentation of SEWA YFC Presentation of VNFU YFC Presentation of API
Prosperity in place. Meaningful work for mobile youth that enhances forest landscapes. |
Presentation
Q&A |
YFC Representative/s:
LFN FNN CTCF SEWA VNFU API |
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| 14:00 – 14.30 | Intermission (Public) | Awarding of dance challenge winners | Video/ live dancing | |
| 14:30 – 14.45 | Closing Remarks | Pauline Buffle, FFF (tbc) | ||
| INTERNAL DISCUSSION FOLLOWS with representatives of AFA Young Farmers Committee | ||||
| 15:30 – 16.30 | Session 2: Young Farmers Action Plans (Objective 2)
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– Linking with session 1 and finding common synergies for the action plans
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Plenary discussion | Myline Macabuhay |
| 16:30 | End of day 1 | |||
Day 2: 03 October 2020 (Saturday)
| Time
(Manila time) |
Session | Activity | Methods | Speaker/Facilitator |
| 11:00 –11:30 | Opening Activity | Recap of day 1 | Energizer | Selected YFC |
| 11:30 –12:00 | Session 3: Regional Young Farmer Leaders (Objective 3) | Presentation on the proposed role and mandate of the regional YFC representative/s | Presentation and discussion | Myline Macabuhay |
| 12:00 –13:00 | Selection of regional YFC representative/s | Discussion | Myline Macabuhay | |
| 13:00 –13:30 | Health break | Energizer | ||
| 13:30 –15:00 | Finalization of the draft 5-year operational plan for the Young Farmers Agenda
1. Organizing/ networking 2. Capacity-building and knowledge management 3. Advocacy and resource mobilization |
Plenary discussion | Selected regional YFC | |
| 15:00 –16:00 | Lunch break | Energizer | ||
| 16:00 –17:00 | Finalization of the draft 5-year operational plan for the Young Farmers Agenda (continuation) | Plenary discussion | Selected regional YFC representative/s | |
| 17:00 –17:30 | Closing activities | Closing remarks
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Selected regional YFC representative/s |
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