We, the Asian Peoples’ Solidarity for Climate Justice, are gathered here in Bangkok, Thailand to take our stand in the face of an unprecedented conflict. It is a conflict over resources, a conflict driven by unfettered profiteering and the slavery of consumption, it is a conflict brought about the domination and ascendancy of private interest […]
Farmers’ Regional Trade Agenda: Farmers’ Collective Voice on Trade in the ASEAN Region AFA Issue Paper, Volume 2 Number 3, October 2009 DOWNLOAD: Farmers’ Regional Trade Agenda: Farmers’ Collective Voice on Trade in the ASEAN Region The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has been trying hard to go into free trade agreements (FTAs) with […]
Powerpoint Presentation: The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) Rethinking Agricultural Paradigms – We Are Not Alone BSWM Public Forum Quezon City, September 29, 2009 Prof. Norman Uphoff, CIIFAD Click here to download
The Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA), a regional alliance of nine national farmers’ organizations, in eight countries in Asia, representing ten million farmers, will hold a consultation-workshop, entitled “Farmers’ Voices, Farmers’ Choices: AFA Regional Consultations on Food Sovereignty, Climate Change and Marketing”, on October 6-10, 2009, at Princeton Park Suites, No. 3, […]
Critical Issues on the Growing Market Power of Transnational Agribusinesses AFA Issue Paper, Volume 2 Number 2, September 2009 DOWNLOAD: Critical Issues on the Growing Market Power of Transnational Agribusinesses WHAT IS MEANT BY AGRIBUSINESS? Agribusiness, as used in this paper, refers to very big corporations that produce, process trade, and market agricultural food products […]
Chairperson Sudaporn Sittisathapornkul, together with other AFA leaders, joined other representatives from civil society organizations of women and men migrant workers from the formal, informal and labor sectors, small-scale farmers, fishers, indigenous peoples, agricultural workers, consumers, academe and non-government organizations from the ASEAN region in the “Regional Conference on the Impact of Financial and Economic […]
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