(Last Sept 6, an forum entitled “the Civil Society Roadmap to Address the Food Security, Agriculture and Climate Crises”, was held , as a side event during the 2nd Global Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change, in Hanoi, Vietnam. The event was organized by AFA, Third World Network, Center for Sustainable Rural Development […]
Bangkok, Thailand – AFA successfully concluded its 27th Executive Committee meeting under its new Chairperson, Mr. Uon Sophal, President of Farmer and Nature Net (FNN) in Cambodia. The meeting was dove-tailed with a regional consultation on agricultural research for development that was co-organized with APAARI. The ExeCom appreciated the able facilitation of the meeting by […]
Bangkok, Thailand — While big agribusiness companies invest a lot on research and development in chemical farming, government and national agricultural research institutes should balance this by placing making investments on sustainable farming technologies. Farmers made this call during the “Asian Farmers’ Regional Consultation on Agricultural Research for Development (AR4D)”organized by the Asian Farmers’ Association […]
Bangkok, Thailand – With limited resources available for their work, the need to track or monitor more closely the impact of farmer organizations and coops at the national, regional and international levels have never been more important. Thus, the Asian Farmers’ Association (AFA), in cooperation with its partners, resolve to develop further a social auditing […]
Bangkok, Thailand – The Asian Farmers’ Association (AFA), together with other CSOs, called for a more institutionalized mechanism for participation of small-scale farmers in key decision-making processes in ASEAN, particularly on issues of food security/sovereignty, agricultural trade, climate change, etc, through the creation of an ASEAN Small-scale Farmers’/ Producers’ Council. The groups made the call […]
While demand for organic vegetables has been increasing in Myanmar, farmers are worried about the possible impact of foreign and private investors who are or will be engaging in large-scale vegetable farming using chemical and synthetic fertilizers, as these might contaminate nearby organic vegetable farms. Farmers raised this concern during the “National Consultation Workshop on […]
Proceedings of Regional Consultation on AR4D (Sep 10-11, 2012, Bangkok, Thailand) Documentation of the 1.5 day consultation on AR4D agenda, attended by around 30 participants from AFA member organizations, APAARI and GFAR officials. The results of the consultation serve as AFA’s inputs to events involving AR4D issues, particularly the GCARD 2012 discussions. It is also the […]
AFA congratulates Dr. Yang Saing Koma, founder of the Center for Cambodian Center for Study and Development in Agriculture (CEDAC) for being one of this year’s recipients of the Ramon Magsaysay award. CEDAC help found the organization of small farmers in Cambodia called Farmer and Nature Net (FNN), which is now a close partner of […]
