A Viable Future: Attracting the Youth to Agriculture DOWNLOAD: A Viable Future: Attracting the Youth to Agriculture Youth is often the time when a person starts to dream of the future, think of the path to take and boldly and aggressively set his/her life in motion. In many rural villages, to be a farmer is […]
Published in 1991, this practical and insightful book is still as relevant as ever. The author, Shimpei Murakami, who is now AFA’s Chairperson, has shared a PDF copy for the public. From the Foreword: “This book, Lessons from Nature by Mr. Shimpei Murakami is a praiseworthy attempt to explore the rules and principle’s of nature […]
A project supported by the Forest and Farm Facility of the UN-FAO Strengthening engagement of Asian small scale women and men forests and farm producers in global and regional processes The project aims to consolidate the voices of its members in 8 countries who are living in forested landscapes and thereby strengthening AFA’s legitimacy, accountability, […]
Project Title: Developing capacity of Farmers’ organization on sustainable agro-enterprise through knowledge sharing and innovation Project Reference No.: 6137-2 Highlights of Project Implementation As of April 2015 Download: project-narrative-report_afa-csa-project
By Violeta P. Corral, Pambansang Kilusan ng mga Samahang Magsasaka (PAKISAMA) PAKISAMA participated at the 16th Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty held on March 23–27, 2015 at the World Bank Headquarters in Washington D.C. Organized by the Bank’s Development Economic Research Group (DECRG), the conference is a key global event which fosters […]
This paper was prepared for presentation at the “2015 World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty” in Washington DC last March 23-27, 2015 by Violeta P. Corral of the National Confederation of Small Farmers and Fishers Organizations (PAKISAMA), Philippines. The Gender Evaluation Criteria (GEC) project was jointly implemented by PAKISAMA and Asian Farmers Association (AFA), support by the International Land Coalition (ILC). Under the project, land […]
How big a deal is agriculture in ASEAN? It contributes 39.9% to Myanmar’s GDP. It employs 60.3% of Cambodia’s labor force. ASEAN is home to 5 out of 10 top rice producers in the world. How does climate change harm ASEAN’s food basket? Every 1C rise in temperature can reduce yield by 10%. Temperature has […]
