by Jun Virola, AFA Quezon City, Philippines — Various civil society organizations (CSOs) from trade, farmers, labor, and other sectors held a caucus last August 13, 2008 at the Mandarin Oriental Suites in Cubao, Quezon City to get updates on the EU-ASEAN partnership negotiations, and to come up with recommendations and a common plan of […]
by Jun Virola Quezon City, Philippines — PAKISAMA has launched its new and improved website: http://pakisama.org/. It features the latest activities of the confederation. PAKISAMA is currently very active in the campaign to extend and reform the Philippines’ Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP). It also recently completed a study tour of an Agrarian Reform Community […]
The Korean Rural Economic Institute has published the 2008 edition of “Agriculture in Korea”, a book written for foreign scholars, policy makers, and others having interest in Korean agriculture in order to help them grasp and understand current situations and changes of Korean agriculture. It also describes policy reforms and the future outlook and tasks […]
Microsoft has put up “NGO Connection” — an online resource that features successful uses of technology by NGOs, grant facilities, and training opportunities. Click here to go to the website
We, the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA), a regional alliance of 9 farmer federations in 8 Asian countries representing 10 million farmers, join the call to “free the peasants of Kelompok Tani Masyarakat Ingin Makmur (KTMIM) and investigate the violation of human rights in Banjaran Village, Secanggang Sub-District, Langkat District” in Indonesia. […]
WTO Mini Ministerial Meeting July 21-25, 2008 Geneva, Switzerland This week, negotiators from many member countries of WTO again meet in Geneva for a mini-ministerial meeting, in efforts to conclude the much delayed, much controversial Doha Development Round of Negotiations. Agriculture has been a contentious issue since the Round started in 2001. We, the Asian […]
On 7 June 2021, the National Association of Mongolian Agricultural Cooperatives (NAMAC), AFA member in Mongolia, conducted a national independent dialogue in Mongolia as part of the pre-events for the United Nations Food Systems Summit 2021. The dialogue was participated by smallholder farmers, herders, pastoralists, and other food producers from various parts of the country. […]
Farmers in ASEAN member-countries such as Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, and Thailand, can now understand more about ASEAN issues related to farmers in the region through an issue paper that has been translated into local languages. The issue paper entitled “Understanding the ASEAN Charter and the ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint”, published by AFA and AsiaDHRRA, […]
