Recognizing the failure of modern industrial agriculture to secure food production in the world, a consensus is emerging that agroecology is the most viable way forward if we are to address the future challenges of the 21st century which include food security, job creation, climate change, etc. Thus, the Commission Sud of France, an umbrella […]
National Farmers’ Organizations (FOs) Farmer and Nature Net (FNN), AFA member in Cambodia, and Kendrio Krishok Moitree ( KKM), AFA member in Bangladesh, convened consultation workshops cum dialogues with government implementers of national projects financed under the Global Agriculture for Food Security Program or GAFSP. In Cambodia The consultation in Cambodia was held last November […]
Representatives from AFA and two of its member FOs participated in a workshop on Participatory Generation of Proposals and Positions (PGPP) organized by Agriterra in cooperation with the Nepal Federation of Savings and Credit Cooperative Union (NEFSCUN) in Kathmandu, Nepal last Dec 17-19, 2012. The workshop was a follow-up on the outcome of the plans made by […]
One hundred twenty marchers, composed of farmers, fishers, and indigenous peoples from the town of Casiguran in the northern Philippine province of Aurora are about to complete their 320-kilometer walk to Metro Manila on December 10, Human Rights Day, to personally meet the President and raise their concerns over the disastrous impacts on their communities […]
The knowledge learning and sharing workshop entitled “Lessons Learned from Farmers’ Involvement in GAFSP Processes” was held last November 9-11, 2012 at the Cambodiana Hotel in Phnom Penh Cambodia. This sharing workshop was organized by AFA, AsiaDHRRA and CSA, hosted by FNN, and supported by Agricord. The workshop was organized as one of the activities […]
Our world is today reeling from four interrelated crises – food, energy, financial and climate change. And the hardest hit by these crises are farmers, fishers, pastoralists and indigenous peoples, as they comprise the majority of the world’s most poor and vulnerable. These global problems have brought opportunities to re-examine agriculture. After three decades of […]
This video presents the experiences of small scale women and men farmers, fishers, and indigenous peoples with agricultural land investments and their impact on their lives and livelihoods. Six cases are featured – three in Cambodia and three in the Philippines. The video is one of the knowledge products that came out of the project […]
