Opening Statement Farmers’ Forum 2012 Asian Farmers’ Association (AFA) February 20, 2012 Good morning to everyone! In behalf of the Asian Farmers Association, we greet you all a belated happy lunar new year of the Water Dragon! Since we last met in 2010, we have made some victories. First, the UN has declared 2014 as […]
ON the first day of the FAFO 2012 in Rome, Italy, AFA asserted the role of smallholders in agricultural development. IFAD social reporting blog quotes AFA Secretary General Esther Penunia as follows: Other speakers asserted that small-scale producers should be more directly involved in the design and implementation of rural development plans at all levels. […]
Mr. Mohammad Nuruddin, Secretary General of API and active ExeCom member of AFA, gives an opening message during the ASEAN Session on “Civil Society Organization (CSO) and the Agriculture and Forestry Sector in the ASEAN Region, held at the ASEAN Headquaters in Jakarta, Indonesia last February 16, 2012. The activity was attended by Dr. Surin […]
AFA representatives are attending the fourth meeting of the Farmers Forum (FAFO) being held at the IFAD Headquarters in Rome, Italy from on Feburary 20-21, 2012. The FAFO is being webcast live at http://webcasting.ifad.org/gc2012. The photo is a screen grab of the webcast on the first day of the FAFO. Ms. Youngran Choi (third row on […]
AFA is participating in the special session of the 2012 Farmers’ Forum entitled “Youth in Agriculture” being held on February 18, 2011 at the IFAD Headquarters in Rome, Italy. Read more about the special session at: http://www.ifad.org/farmer/2012/youth/index.htm Over 60 per cent of the world’s rural population is made of youth, with half of them being young […]
AFA is co-organizing a regional sharing session dubbed as ASEAN CSO 101 together with ASEAN, ASFN, NTFP-EP, ASIADHRRA and AFA with support from SDC and the government of Indonesia . The session aims to encourage building enabling environment for meaningful engagement mechanisms and initiatives between government bodies & civil society organizations in agriculture and forestry sector development. Specifically, the […]
AFA participated in the “Expert Consultation on the Implementation Guide on Agricultural Investment and Access to Land,” which was held at the Amari Watergate Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand on 18-20 January 2012, organized by FAO. AFA KM Officer Jun Virola presented the “Farmers’ Perspective on Agricultural Investment and Access to Land,” which looked at: (1) issue […]
Given the right opportunities, women farmers take leadership roles and do it well. This is one conclusion that came out strongly in a research validation workshop and reflection session of women farmer leaders held in the Philippines recently. Eight women farmers belonging to PAKISAMA gathered at Ciudad Christia, Montalban, Rizal last December 16-18, 2011 in […]
