June 30, 2006 Warm greetings of Peace! We, the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA), an alliance of nine million farmers from eight countries in Asia, together with our support group, the Asian Partnership for the Development of Human Resources in Rural Asia (AsiaDHRRA), a network of 11 non-government organizations in ten Asian […]
AFA and AsiaDHRRA, represented by Esther Penunia, participated in a consultation with the ASEAN Emminent Persons’ Group of the ASEAN last June 28, in ISEAS office, Singapore. During the consultation, the regional civil society formation Solidarity for People’s Action Advocacy (SAPA), submitted a paper on the group’s recommendations for the economic pillar. The paper was […]
Bangkok, Thailand — Eight representatives of SorKorPor, an AFA member organization in Thailand, went on a study tour in the Netherlands last June 18 – 24, 2006 with the support of Agriterra and ZLTO, a farmers’ organization in South Netherlands. The delegation was led by SorKorpor Chairperson and AFA Vice-Chairperson Ms. Sudaporn Sittisathapornkul. The study […]
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 […]
