Around 250 Filipino farmers and fisher’s organizations, Philippine government, civil society organizations, development partners and farmer an fisher’s organizations from ASEAN member countries will gather on 27-28 November 2017 at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Headquarters in Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila to celebrate the fourth year of the International Year of Family Farming (IYFF) through […]
Establishing Policies and Programs Providing Greater Incentives to Smallholder /family Farmers and their organizations for greater gender, generational and social equity, food security, and economic development, biodiversity and climate mitigation and adaptation, and better governance We, representatives of a broad spectrum of national farmers and fishers organization and Civil Society Organizations and International Organizations assembled […]
A Participatory Lobby and Advocacy Training: FACT (Farmers Advocacy Consultation Tool) Plug-in Pilot Training was successfully held at the CBD Hotel in Naga City on 6-8 November 2017 with around 40 participants from various farmers and fishers’ organizations, cooperatives, CSOs, and local government in attendance. On the first day of the training, the participants were […]
When the Agriculture and Farmer Federation of Myanmar (AFFM) was established in 2011, there were no women members elected handle leadership roles in the organization. Throughout the years, there were still no women members elected in the AFFM Central Committee and in the Central Executive Committee. However, recognizing the importance and the need to involve […]
Representatives from farmer organizations in Southeast Asia, East Asia, South Asia and the Pacific, international partners, and civil society organizations gathered in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India on 6-10 October 2017 for the Expanded 3rd MTCP2 Regional Steering Committee Meeting. The RSC opened with an interfaith prayer delivered by Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), followed by welcome […]
“If you are educating a man, you are educating an individual. If you are educating a woman, you are educating an entire family,” Maria Linibi says to end her presentation about the initiatives of the women group PNGWiADF. Maria says that in Papua New Guinea, they do not communicate much as they have many languages, […]
WATER IS LIFE. WUA Federation in Kyrgyzstan is in charge of distribution of water. In 1996 a land reform was carried in accordance with the government program to transfer from common collective farming to individual private farming. Since all water canals became ownerless, the country had to carry out water reform. Thus the Water User […]
Akiko Aratani of Ainoukai narrated a story about their farming village in Menno, Ainoka, Japan. In their farm, located in the northernmost part of Japan, they raise 400 chickens and grow crops including rice, herbs, grapes, and wheat. Currently, there are about 80 households in their community who eat the produce in their farm. They […]
