AFA will hold a seminar-workshop entitled “Developing AFA’s Advocacy on Sustainable Agriculture†on Sept. 11-17, 2006 in Indonesia, to be hosted by AFA member Aliansi Petani Indonesia (API). The seminar-workshop will hopefully result in the development of AFA’s concept paper on sustainable agriculture, which can serve as a blueprint for AFA’s action and advocacy on […]
Dear Chairman Seo, officers and members of KAFF,Warm greetings to everyone! We congratulate the officers of KAFF for organizing the tenth National Advanced Farmers’ Meeting. We cheer with the thousands of KAFF members and their families who are gathered here together for days of togetherness, fun and laughter, solidarity and also exchange of learning.
By Thomas Fuller |Â International Herald Tribune Published: August 8, 2006 BANGKU, Thailand Far from the brilliant green rice paddies that spread across the fertile flatlands here, economists in Europe have calculated that Thailand’s farmers would be among the biggest winners if failed global trade talks were revived and succeed. By one estimate, the Thai […]
AFA Chairperson Seo Jung Eui led a nine-member AFA delegation who attended the 6th AsiaDHRRA General Assembly (GA) held in Taiping, Malaysia last June 20-23, 2006. Aside from AFA Chairperson, Mr.Kim, Gi Cheol and Mr. Kwang Cheon Kim of KAFF, Mr. Chaiwat Suravichai and Mr. Pa Phomkham of SorKorPor, Mr. Severino Umandal of PAKISAMA, Mr. […]
During a forum on NGO-PO partnership models held last June 20-21, 2006 in Taiping, Malaysia, case studies on PAKISAMA-PhilDHRRA, API-Bina Desa, FNN-CEDAC, and TWADA-NPUST partnerships were presented. Two major resolutions were made during the forum and they were later adopted by the General Assembly. One of these was to re-affirm the commitment of AsiaDHRRA to […]
In a forum jointly organized by AFA and AsiaDHRRA last June 23, 2006 in Taiping, Malaysia, Lim Li Chinh of the Malaysia-based Third World Network spoke on the developments in the current round of WTO negotiations in Geneva. Maitet Diokno Pascual gave a comprehensive overview of free-trade agreements being forged by USA in several countries […]
PRESS RELEASE Taiping, Malaysia June 23, 2006 Nine million small farmers and producers from ten countries in Asia call on governments of developing agricultural countries to ensure that “pro-small farmer” rules will be agreed in the current WTO negotiations in Geneva as well as in bilateral agreements currently forged by their governments with the United […]
A letter of support addressed to the WTO negotiators of member countries belonging to the G33, ACP, and LDC blocs was sent in the last week of June by AFA and AsiaDHRRA. The letter supported the groups’ commitment to call for adequate treatment of special products and special safeguard mechanisms. “Do not sign to a […]
