The National Confederation of Peasant Organizations (Pambansang Kilusan ng mga Samahang Magsasaka – PAKISAMA), an AFA member organization in the Philippines, successfully conducted a UNITY CONGRESS last July 1-2, 2006 at SEAMEO-INNOTECH, Diliman, Quezon City. The Unity Congress was officiated by the Solidarity Committee headed by Fr. Noel Vasquez, S.J. The Solidarity Committee was tasked […]
The only course of action that Director-General Pascal Lamy can recommend is to suspend the Doha Development Agenda negotiations across the Round as a whole and he will recommend this to the General Council on Thursday 27 July 2006. He explained why in a statement to an informal meeting of heads of delegations in the […]
www.cnn.com | world business GENEVA, Switzerland (Reuters) — Global free trade talks collapsed on Monday after nearly five years of on-off haggling and resuming them could take years, officials and diplomats said. The suspension of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Doha round, which was expected to be announced formally by WTO chief Pascal Lamy later […]
The Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA), an alliance of millions of farmers from ten Asian countries, will hold a Seminar-Workshop on “Developing AFA’s Concept on Pro-Small Farmer Marketing and Tradingâ€, to be hosted by Ainokai, this coming July 3-10, in Aichi and Mie, Japan. This seminar will hopefully result in the development […]
Taiping, 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 States. The […]
AFA Secretary General Esther Penunia met farmers organizations in Kenya and Sierra Leone, Africa, during a profiling activity , sponsored by Agriterra, held May 14-28 . Together with Marly Boonman, Agriterra’s Liaison officer, two farmers’ organizations were profiled – the Eastern Womens Cooperative Movement or Muloma and the National Association of Farmers in Sierra Leone […]
May 30, 2006 Last week, two calamities struck the villages in two Southeast Asian countries. In Thailand, a great flood occured in the northern part, affecting many farmers, some of whom are members of Sor Kor Por, an AFA member. In Yogyakarta, Indonesia, a 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck, killing 6,200 people, injuring and displacing a […]
Quezon City, Philippines – The new set of AFA Executive Committee officers held an orientation session last May 11-13, 2006 at the AsiaDHRRA/AFA secretariat office at Loyola Heights, Quezon City The meeting was also a team building activity as the officers and staff spent a day shooting the rapids in Pagsanjan falls, a favorite tourist […]
