(We support family farming! Representatives of AFA and other FOs participating in the MTCP2 launch and startup workshop are in Bangkok for the IYFF conference organized by FAO.) PRESS RELEASE IYFF-2014: A UNIQUEÂ OPPORTUNITYÂ TO PROMOTE FAMILY FARMING Thousands of farmers throughout the world vindicate the role of Family Farming, through simultaneous activities on the occasion of […]
MEDIA ADVISORY Official Launch of the Medium Term Cooperation Project – Phase Two (MTCP2) INVITATION TO REPRESENTATIVES OF THE MEDIA When: Saturday, November 23, 2013, 9:00 AM Where: Amari Watergate Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand Who: AFA, La Via Campesina, ANFPa, PIFON, IFAD Farmers’ federations from Asia-Pacific, with support of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), […]
As the world commemorates World Food Day, small scale farmers around the world continue their centuries old tradition of developing and sharing seeds. In Indonesia, farmers belong to Aliansi Petani Indonesia plant and observe rice seeds they received from Japanese farmers belonging to Ainoukai. Both are members of the Asian Farmers Association (AFA). These seed […]
The Civil Society Mechanism is organizing a side event related to the International Year of Family Farming (IYFF) 2014 during the Committee of Food Security (CFS) meetings, to be held on 7-11 October 2013 at the FAO headquarters in Rome.  CSOs who are in Rome next week are invited to this meaningful event. Click here to […]
Blueprint for a Co-operative Decade by International Co-operative Alliance DOWNLOAD:Â ICA- Blueprint for a Co-operative Decade
This video presents cases of different types of engagements of small-scale farmers with private enterprises and examines them using criteria of sustainability and inclusiveness, for the purpose of identifying what farmers and farmers groups, as well as government and other key stakeholders can do to increase farmers’ leverage and power in the market and along […]
(The following is a press release from the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP). AFA is a support organization to the Asian CSO representative to the GAFSP Steering Committee.) WASHINGTON, September 11, 2013—Partners in the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP), a multi-donor trust fund established in 2010 to improve food security in […]
