Seeds Learning Exchange Part 2From Sharing to Scaling: Cooperative Models Across BordersExpanding horizons, cultivating stronger cooperativesOctober 2026 | Philippines Context The Seeds Learning Exchange Part I was successfully completed in October 2025. Four AFA members from Timor Leste, Indonesia, and Laos traveled to Cambodia to share their experiences in producing and marketing rice and vegetable […]
UNCCD COP17Youth4Soil Manifesto & Celebration of International Year of the WomanFarmer 202615:30-17:00, MET24 BackgroundLand and soil restoration are crucial for achieving food security, climate resilience, biodiversity conservation, and sustainable livelihoods. Young people are already taking the lead in land and soil restoration; they are training peers, restoring degraded lands, practicing composting and agroecology, applying Indigenous and local knowledge, […]
UNCCD COP17Restoring Land, Redirecting Finance: Repurposing Public Support for a Just Rural Transition27 August | 15:30 – 17:00 | MET-21Organised by: Clim-Eat, IFAD, WWF International, Agroecology Coalition Background The Voices for Just Rural Transitions (Voices4JRT) project offers a direct answer: by redirecting public finance toward the priorities of the people who manage that land. Drawing on […]
UNCCD COP17Family farming at the heart of land restoration: Scaling farmer-led solutions to land degradation and drought and fostering rural development27 August | 15:00 – 16:30 | MET-01 Event Description As land degradation accelerates and drought threatens the livelihoods of millions, family farmers, who manage over 80% of the world’s agricultural land, are too often […]
UNCCD COP17 Side EventA Global Outlook for Local Impact – Innovation and Technologies Shaping the Future of Agrifood Systems27 August 2026 | 10:00–11:30 | Mongolia Pavilion AFA Coordinator for Sustainable Agriculture and Women Farmers’ Agenda Irish Baguilat, Byamba Dorjsuren of AGRI-COOP/Namac, and Neha Maraj of Self Employed Women’s Association-SEWA shared their experiences and perspectives on […]
UNCCD COP17High Level Event – Food Systems and Soil Health Day High-Level Ministerial Dialogue on Food Systems and Soil Health27 August 2026 | 13:00 – 15:00 Ulaanbaatar time/GMT+8 | Action Dome, MongoliaInterpretation EN/FR/ES/MN Background Food systems sit at the center of the interconnected challenges of land degradation, climate change, biodiversity loss and food insecurity. At […]
