With 925 million people going hungry every day, the food insecurity crisis in the South cries out for solutions for long-term and sustainable food security. Thus, this year’s Global South-South Development Expo, being held at the FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy on December 5-9, brings together country, civil society, private sector and UN agency representatives […]
Adaptation Fund for Smallholder Agriculture: Enabling Developing Countries to Survive Climate Change AFA Issue Paper, Volume 3, Number 2, December 2011 DOWNLOAD: Adaptation Fund for Smallholder Agriculture: Enabling Developing Countries to Survive Climate Change Sumalee’s tears welled up as she watched the flood wash away the crops that she had been carefully tending only a […]
A forum-workshop entitled “Food Security and Climate Change Adaptation of Small Scale Farmers and Fishers in Southeast Asia” was held in Quezon City, Philippines, last Nov 24-25. The workshop was co-organized by Oxfam International’s East Asia office, Southeast Asia Fisheries for Justice (SEAFISH), a regional alliance of NGO and fisher groups, and Asian Farmers’ Association […]
[youtube width=”600″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoxeYwVn0qo&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]Entitled “Farmers’ Voices, Farmers’ Choices: In the Time of Climate Change, “this video features interviews with AFA women leaders and results of the regional consultation on climate change conducted by AFA. It shows the gender dimensions of food security in the time of climate change.
International Climate Change Negotiations: Ensuring Support for Adaptation and Mitigation Measures in Smallholder Agriculture, Vol. 2 No. 4, December 2009. In December 2009, women in Sayphusi, a village in the province of Attapeu in Laos, were busy washing dried mud from their paddy grains. They had very little to eat, and the muddied paddy – […]
(This paper is the output of the participatory research done by AFA through its commissioned researcher Ms. Riza Bernabe and includes secondary as well as primary data gathered from village, district and national consultations in Cambodia, Timor Leste, Indonesia and Laos that were held in 2009 and 2010.) Addressing the problem of hunger in a world where […]
(written and translated into English by Pan Sopheap, FNN) Karnataka, India — Farmer and researcher representatives from 12 countries paid a 4-day field visits plus a one-day reflection workshop in Karnataka state, south of India, in order to expose ideas and experiences on food sovereignty. The event hosted by Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha (KRRS), in […]
Siem Reap, Cambodia — Farmer leaders from 12 Asian countries gather in this city, famous as the gateway to Angkor Wat, in order to discuss challenges facing small farmers and ways on how to address them. Hosted by Farmer and Nature Net (FNN), in cooperation with the Asian Farmers’ Association (AFA), the “Regional Consultation on […]
