More than 90 leaders of national and regional organizations representing hundreds of millions of smallholder farmers, fishers, pastoralists and rural producers globally, gathered at the headquarters of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) for the Fifth Global Meeting of the Farmers’ Forum on February 17-20, in conjunction with the 37th session of IFAD’s Governing […]
AFA co-organized the First MTCP2 Southeast Asia plus China Sub-regional Steering Committee (SRSC) meeting (11-12 February 2014, Pasig City, Philippines) with La Via Campesina as Sub-Regional Implementing Agencies (SRIAs) of MTCP2. Among the objectives of the meeting were: (1) to provide opportunities for representatives from each countries to share their Annual workplan and budget; (2) to […]
The first Southeast Asia plus China Sub-regional Steering Committee (SRSC) will be held on February 11-12, 2014 at the 6th Floor Opal Conference Room, Millenia Suites, 8001 Saint Jose Escriva Drive, Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines.
In a meeting held on January 22 at Laos Women’s Training Center, Vientianne, farmer organizations in Laos selected from among them the National Implementing Agency (NIA) and identified the composition of the National Steering committee (NSC) for the implementation of the Medium Term Cooperation Project Phase 2 (MTCP2) in the country. The NIA, guided by […]
In behalf of the consortium of the Asian Farmers’ Association (AFA) and La Via Campesina (LVC), which has been chosen as Sub-Regional Implementing Agency (SRIA) for the Medium Term Cooperation Program Phase 2 (MTCP2) in Southeast Asia and China, Esther Penunia and Lany Rebagay anchored a three-day start-up mission in Myanmar in order to raise […]
Farmer organizations participating in MTCP2 in India met last January 29, 2014 in Guwahati, Assam (with some joining via Skype) in order to reconstitute the national programme oversight board and to include more farmer organizations and new farming sectors. Sharda Kant from Rajasthan, Anita Parmar from Gujarat, Sevika Basumatry from Assam, Pity from Meghalaya, Maheshwari […]
Farmer organizations in Bangladesh gathered last January 17, 2014 at the Coast Trust in Dhaka for an orientation on the Medium Term Cooperation Program Phase 2 that will be implemented in the country as well as other countries in Southeast Asia, South Asia, and the Pacific. Twenty participants, four of which were females, representing nine […]
During the meeting, it was announced that the FAO DG has nominated Ms. Esther Penunia from the Philippines, Secretary-General of AFA, as IYFF Special Ambassador for Asia and the Pacific. Her official appointment will be done during the opening session of the GFEFF in Budapest. (Download: ISC Minutes Meeting 28 January 2014-FINAL)
