by Pan Sopheap, FNN Chang Mai, Thailand — Mr. Mao That, FNN representative, attended the conference on land rights in Chang Mai last November 9-11, 2011. Participants to the conference shared their experiences from different countries on land rights issues and how they are responding to them. A conference statement was issued on the need […]
Smallholder Agriculture and Food Systems: Responding to the Challenge of Food Price Volatility AFA Issue Paper, Volume 3, Number 1, November 2011 DOWNLOAD: Smallholder Agriculture and Food Systems: Responding to the Challenge of Food Price Volatility In 2008, Ka Lita, a woman rice farmer in the Philippines, stood in a long line to buy rice […]
By Karen Hansen-KuhnYang Saing Koma, (CEDAC/FNN); Tony Santos, PAKISAMA; Ika Krshnayanti, API Published October 14, 2011 Rising food prices, climate change and food riots have put agriculture high on the international agenda. Too much of the current policy debate focuses narrowly on increasing the volume of food, and assumes that industrial agriculture and biotechnology are […]
Excerpt from the Strategy Paper: “The past nine years, 2002-2010, have seen us struggling to take root and make ourselves known and heard at the international, regional, and national levels as a regional alliance of small scale women and men farmers’ organizations (FOs) in Asia. Slowly but surely, our efforts are paying off. Our alliance, […]
Excerpt from the Brochure: “We are a regional alliance of national federations and organizations of small scale women and men farmers and producers. We were established in 2002 after a series of farmers’ exchange visits (FEVs) organized by our strategic NGO partner, AsiaDHRRA (Asian Partnership for the Development of Human Resources in Rural Asia). In […]
The following article was written by Mr. Jukichi Ishizawa, a 78-year old organic farmer from Fukushima, Japan. His place, Kouriyama City, is located 60 kilometers away from the Daichi nuclear plant that was damaged by the tsunami and is emitting nuclear radiation. He has been farming in Fukushima for the 61 years and is a […]
(Paper presented by Esther A. Penunia, Secretary General, Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA), to the UN expert group meeting on “Enabling rural women’s economic empowerment: institutions, opportunities and participation?” organized by UN Women in cooperation with FAO, IFAD and WFP on Sep 20-23, 2011 in Accra, Ghana.) This paper would like to […]
AFA Secretary General Ma. Estrella Penunia will attend the UN women expert group meeting on ‘Enabling rural women’s economic empowerment: institutions, opportunities and participation’ to be held in Accra, Ghana, from 20 to 23 September 2011. The expert group meeting is part of the preparatory process for the 56th session of the Commission on the […]
