Southeast Asia’s extensive forest cover is a critical source of food and livelihood for approximately 14 million people, particularly for indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities. Forest areas where customary tenure predominantly shapes and define how communities manage land and other resources, including the way community members collect and produce food and earn income to meet […]
REGISTER Date: Wednesday, 26 July Time: 08:00 – 09:00 CET This event will bring together representatives from regional farmer organisations and international initiatives to promote a just transition to sustainable food systems and discuss their experience in participating in national pathways, featuring positive examples from countries and highlighting challenges to genuine farmer influence over the […]
Date: 25 July Time: 11:00-12:30 CET Location: FAO HQ, Green Room (1st Floor, Building A) Description: By 2050, feeding a global population of almost 10 billion will require a radical transformation in how food is produced, processed, traded and consumed. Current food systems are failing to deliver overall positive outcomes for people, prosperity or the planet. To compound […]
REGISTER Leadership dialogue: Coalition of Action Roundtable Represented by H.E. State SecretaryMr. Christian Hofer, Director Generalof the Federal Office for Agriculturein Switzerland Where: Green Room, first floor Building A& online When: 24 July | 11:00-12.30CEST Side event “Towards healthy and sustainablefood systems: Agroecology, SoilHealth and Healthy Diets” Where: Ethiopia Room C285 & online When: 24 […]
UN Food System Stocktaking Moment Rome, 24-26 of July 2023 REGISTER Family Farming presents the most promising prospects for achieving the required transformation, encompassing production systems and food governance in the context of climate change and interconnected crisis. It entails the transition towards more agroecological and resilient practices, ensuring the preservation of biodiversity, efficient management […]
The Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA), Pambansang Kilusan ng mga Samahang Magsasaka (PAKISAMA), and the National Land Coalition (NLC) -Philippines, are jointly conducting a capacity-building training on Mapping Tools. The training is supported by the Land Matrix Initiative, with AFA as the regional focal point in Asia and PAKISAMA as the host […]
May 31, 2023. The Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) started its first of a series of Mindanao-wide training for focal persons on youth and women/ Gender and Development (GAD) in 6 national and provincial agriculture cooperatives/farmers’ organizations and in 11 primary cooperatives who belong to their membership. The training is being held […]
AFA coordinator for Sustainable Agriculture Agenda, Irish Baguilat, participated in the two-day multistakeholder consultation and planning workshop on Mainstreaming Biodiversity in Agriculture and Forestry Towards Food Security and Sustainable Livelihoods in the ASEAN Region organized by the ASEAN Secretariat Food and Forestry Division, ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity, Office of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and […]
