Bangkok, Thailand – AFA successfully concluded its 27th Executive Committee meeting under its new Chairperson, Mr. Uon Sophal, President of Farmer and Nature Net (FNN) in Cambodia. The meeting was dove-tailed with a regional consultation on agricultural research for development that was co-organized with APAARI. The ExeCom appreciated the able facilitation of the meeting by […]
Bangkok, Thailand — While big agribusiness companies invest a lot on research and development in chemical farming, government and national agricultural research institutes should balance this by placing making investments on sustainable farming technologies. Farmers made this call during the “Asian Farmers’ Regional Consultation on Agricultural Research for Development (AR4D)”organized by the Asian Farmers’ Association […]
Bangkok, Thailand – With limited resources available for their work, the need to track or monitor more closely the impact of farmer organizations and coops at the national, regional and international levels have never been more important. Thus, the Asian Farmers’ Association (AFA), in cooperation with its partners, resolve to develop further a social auditing […]
Bangkok, Thailand – The Asian Farmers’ Association (AFA), together with other CSOs, called for a more institutionalized mechanism for participation of small-scale farmers in key decision-making processes in ASEAN, particularly on issues of food security/sovereignty, agricultural trade, climate change, etc, through the creation of an ASEAN Small-scale Farmers’/ Producers’ Council. The groups made the call […]
