Posts in November 2005

1. Asia Partnership for Human Development (APHD) is an association of 22 Catholic development agencies from Asia, Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Drawing inspiration and vision from scriptures and the Catholic Church’s social teachings, APHD works in solidarity with the poor, marginalized and oppressed peoples of Asia in their efforts for empowerment, development, and the promotion of their dignity and rights. The partnership commits itself to sharing, learning and capacity building in the context of the Asian realities of poverty, exploitation and exclusion, and the unfolding challenges of globalization. 2. In its regional advocacy work, APHD collaborates with Asia General (AG) partners ANGOC, AsiaDHRRA, SAWTEE and SEACON. At the global front, it strengthened its solidarity with Caritas Internationalis and its trade advocacy partner CIDSE. These collaborations are vital to APHD as it supports national advocacy work of partner agencies on sustainable agriculture, food security, and farmers’ rights, Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and seed rights, and other trade-related issues centering on the WTO negotiations on TRIPs and agriculture (AoA).

A list of books on Sustainable Agriculture, Food Security and Rural Development published by AFa partner ERA Consumer Malaysia 1. […]

When the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) meets this year in Philadelphia, Monsanto and its colleagues will not be gathering to talk about how to save the world. The goal of this industry, like any other, is to make a profit by convincing consumers that we need what they’re selling. Genetically modified (GM) food – plants and animals that have been inserted with genes from other organisms – aren’t meeting any real human needs. Despite claims from the biotech industry, GM foods cannot end world hunger, and new studies add to the evidence that they may pose a serious threat to human health.

Information Packet | Agriterra This electronic information package is composed for partner organisations planning to do advocacy work and/or to […]

Sanjay Suri | interpress “The impasse has led to an apprehension that this round of talks that began in Doha […]

Prince Albert, the monarch of Monaco, is not what you would call a farmer in need. But like Queen Elizabeth of Britain, he is among the elite farmers who benefit from billions of dollars in European agricultural subsidies. The royalty of Monaco, a small principality on the Mediterranean Sea, received more than 300,000 dollars last year in subsidies from the European Union to support cereal production on his land in northern France. Others get far higher subsidies. But the prince was on a list of 58 French farmers benefiting from the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) released by the World Economy Group (GEM, after its French name), a research centre at the Institute for Political Studies in Paris.

Results of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in Cambodia have consistently proven that small farmers can increase rice production while reducing fertilizer, seed and water inputs. SRI has led to significant yield increases with both traditional and international rice varieties.