Bangkok, Thailand, 15 Oct 2014 – This year’s World Food Day (16 October) is celebrated across Asia and the Pacific with increasing optimism that the region could achieve the Millennium Development Goal on reducing hunger by 2015. This was among the key messages delivered on the eve of World Food Day at a regional event in […]
Committee on Food Security (CFS) Side event on Forests and Family Farming for food Security and Nutrition (16 October 2014, Rome) AFA co-organized a side event with FAO Forestry Department and Forest and Farm Facility together with the Indigenous Partnership for Agro-biodiversity and Food Sovereignty. AFA was represented by Mr. Lyam Bahadur Darjee, a farmer […]
(Land Matrix presentation at the ILC Asia Land Forum in Gujarat, India on October 8, 2014. The need for independent, open and decentralized land monitoring is well-appreciated by land rights defenders in Asia.)
AFA Marketing and Enterprise Development Officer Victoria Serrato represented AFA in the regional dialogue organized by WOCAN and its partners. The dialogue focused on understanding the current debates on women inclusion/exclusion at the regional and international levels, building communities of practice and promoting women’s inclusion and gender equality in debates around the future role […]
AFA Chairperson Shimpei Murakami and Secretary General Esther Penunia are attending the #UNFAO Int’l Symposium on #Agroecology for #FoodSecurity & #Nutrition in Rome on September 18-19. You may follow the live webcast at: http://bit.ly/1ssXI7N .
Dutch Young Farmers’ Organization (NAJK) (PPT) Annet van den Akker September 2014 Click here to download
AFA will be in Rome on September 16-18 for the XIII UN Inter agency RT on Communications for Development on the theme “Mainstreaming Communication for Development in Policies and Programs Enabling Social Inclusion to support food and nutrition security , resilient livelihoods and family farming.” AFA Secretary General Esther Penunia will, who is also the IYFF Ambassador […]
