The Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) will hold the event entitled “AFA@10: Celebrating Successes, Taking On More Challenges: AFA Regional Consultations and 5th AFA General Assembly” on March 7-9, 2012 in Hanoi, Vietnam. It will also be a celebration of the federation’s 10th anniversary. The general assembly will be hosted by its […]
Land Grabs or Large Scale Land Investments? Protecting Farmers’ Rights to Land AFA Issue Paper, Volume 4, Number 1, March 2012 DOWNLOAD: Land Grabs or Large Scale Land Investments? Protecting Farmers’ Rights to Land WHAT IS LAND GRABBING? WHAT ARE LARGE-SCALE LAND INVESTMENTS? ARE THEY THE SAME? “Large scale land investments” and “land grabbing” are […]
On the occasion of the fifty-sixth session of the Commission on the Status of Women taking place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from Monday, 27 February to Friday, 9 March 2012, AFA is re-posting this article that first appeared in the special issue of World Rural Forum’s New Earth in celebration of […]
The Rural Women Leadership Project was implemented in the Philippines in 2010-2011 by AFA and PAKISAMA, in partnership with WOCAN. Leadership stories of 45 women and 15 men were gathered to capture the lessons learned on women leadership. This video shows nine of these stories. Click here to watch the video “Women Farmer Leaders as […]
AFA attended the preparatory CSO meeting last January 18-19, 2012 in Hanoi, Vietnam hosted by AFA member Viet Nam Farmers Union (VNFU). The objective of the meeting was to discuss the details of preparation for the CSO parallel forum to the 31st FAO Asia- Pacific Regional Conference which will be held on March 12-16, 2012. […]
The following was read by Ms. Rachel Kalaba, a representativeof young farmers in Zambia, during IFAD Governing Council meeting on February 22, 2012. Synthesis of Deliberations of the Fourth Global Meeting of the Farmers’ Forum in Conjunction with the 35th Session of IFAD’s Governing Council Rome, 20-21 February 2012 1. We the participants in the […]
On the second day of the fourth global meeting of the Farmers Forum on February 21, 2012, the Medium Term Cooperation Program with FOs in the Asia Pacific got a good review. The IFAD social reporting blog says: The results of the first phase of the MTCP were very encouraging. “Consultation with FOs in the […]
At the opening session of the fourth meeting of the Farmers Forum 2012 on February 20, 2012, the Asian Famers’ Association (AFA), a Steering Committee member of FAFO, asked IFAD to partner with farmers organizations in upscaling and mainstreaming sustainable agriculture. In the opening statement read by Secretary General Ma. Estrella Penunia, AFA informed IFAD […]
