2022 Family Farmers Fair

Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA)
2022 Family Farmers Fair
20-21 October 2022 | Golden Phoenix Hotel, Pasay City, Philippines

As part of its 20th Year Celebration, the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) will conduct a Family Farmers Fair to showcase family farmers’ products, achievements, best practices, and agricultural innovations of AFA members. The fair includes an exhibit of products, success stories, and photos and will take place on 20-21 October 2022 at the Golden Phoenix Hotel in Pasay City, Manila, Philippines.

Objective
• To promote the achievements, best practices, and innovations of AFA members by showcasing their products and success stories from project implementations

I. FARMERS PRODUCTS FAIR

 AFA members are invited to bring their products for sale or display. Those who intend to join the fair exhibit should fill out the online registration form. Below are the following details that need to be completed:

• Organization
• Commodity
• Product name
• Product description
• Quantity
• Price per unit/item (USD)
• Total Value (USD)
• Photos of the product (email to afajunie@asianfarmers.org and afairish@asianfarmers.org)

Click this link to register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeTpZ38PbYUjnDEY99iPiYQAV6EByJtzuTOJPoPw4_Ldg1HQg/viewform

The deadline for registration is on 10 October 2022. Only dry products can be accepted for the exhibit. Aside from their products, fair participants are encouraged to bring knowledge management and communication materials such as brochures and flyers for the exhibit.

The fair will have two dedicated areas where participants can display and sell their products. Each participant will have a space inside the conference room, and they will also have an option to put their products outside the conference room beside the registration area. Due to the limited space, two organizations will share one table which measures 1.76m x 0.55m. Each organization will have a standard sign on its table that will be provided by the AFA Secretariat.

Each exhibitor is encouraged to be at their booths, especially before the program starts and during breaks. The AFA Secretariat is not responsible for any losses or damage to products displayed so do keep an eye on them.

Ingress and setting up of booths by the fair participants will be on 20 October 2022 from 7 am to 9 am. Checking of the inventory list will be done by both the organization representative and the assigned AFA Secretariat during the day of ingress and egress.

II. FACES OF FAMILY FARMING

The Family Farmers Fair will also feature a photo exhibit to showcase the initiatives, activities, and achievements of AFA members and to highlight family farmers’ contributions to agricultural, economic, and social development.

With this, we are calling for submission of photos of family farmers, fishers, pastoralists, indigenous peoples, etc. showing a variety of farming communities, your local environment, crops, culture, etc.

The photo/s should portray any of the following themes:

• Rights to natural resources
• Agroecology/Climate resilient agriculture
• Cooperatives and enterprises
• Women empowerment
• Youth in agriculture

The photo can be any of these categories:

• PORTRAIT – photo/s featuring family farmers in action/doing agricultural work e.g. planting, seeding, harvesting, processing, marketing, cooking, landscaping in the farms, forests, gardens, etc.
• LANDSCAPE – photos featuring farms, gardens, forests, grazing lands, etc.

What to submit

• Digital color photo in JPEG format with a minimum resolution of 200 dpi/inch and a capacity of 1MB to 5Mb
• Title of the photo
• Caption or detailed description of the photo (maximum of 100 words)
• A maximum of three (3) photos are allowed per organization
• Send the photo as an e-mail attachment or via application (e.g. WeTransfer, Dropbox, etc.) to maintain the resolution

Notes

• Photographer/project staff must obtain consent from the person/s appearing in the photograph
• Photo must be taken by a member of the organization or project staff and does not infringe the copyright of third parties
• Include photo credit in your photo/s (can be the organization or the person who took the photo)

To join, submit the digital copies of their photos on or before 10 October 2022 via email to afairish@asianfarmers.org.

III. SUCCESS STORIES SHOWCASE

 The Family Farmers’ Fair will also showcase the best practices of AFA member organizations and partners through case studies from project implementations. This case presentation aims to provide a learning exchange platform among members where they can share their experiences and learn from other organizations their best practices and innovations in agricultural and rural development.

Members may submit a case study in any of the following themes:

• Rights to natural resources
• Agroecology/Climate resilient agriculture
• Cooperatives and enterprises
• Women empowerment
• Youth in agriculture

To join, fill out the case study template. Email the completed template to afairish@asianfarmers.org no later than 10 October 2022. Each organization can submit more than one case study.