ON the first day of the FAFO 2012 in Rome, Italy, AFA asserted the role of smallholders in agricultural development.
IFAD social reporting blog quotes AFA Secretary General Esther Penunia as follows:
Other speakers asserted that small-scale producers should be more directly involved in the design and implementation of rural development plans at all levels. For instance, the UN Year of Family Farming – scheduled for 2014 – will be meaningful only if it involves smallholders in policy advocacy, said Estrella Penunia Banzuela of the Asian Farmers’ Association.
(In the photo: AFA Secretary General Esther Penunia – second from left, FNN Executive Director Pan Sopheap, AINOUKAI representatrive Ryoko Tsuboi, and WAFF/KAFF representative Young Ran Choi -fourth, fifth, and sixt from the left respectively- at the Farmers’ Forum, 18 February 2012, IFAD HQ, Rome. Also attending the FAFO 2012, but not in the photo, are: API representaitve Ms. Ika Krishnayanti; VNFU ICD Director Manh Hung and VNFU Vice-Chairperson Mr. Le Hoang Minh; and PAKISAMA Chairperson Vicente Fabe)
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