Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) 2022 Family Farmers Fair 20-21 October 2022 | Golden Phoenix Hotel, Pasay City, Philippines As part of its 20th Year Celebration, the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) will conduct a Family Farmers Fair to showcase family farmers’ products, achievements, best practices, and agricultural innovations […]
Translating UNFSS commitments into actions: Focus on the Coalition for Transforming Food Systems through Agroecology 6 October 2022 | 1:30 – 2:30 pm Bangkok time (GMt+7) Physical: Hotel Millennium Hilton, Bangkok, Thailand Online: Zoom Food systems account for a third of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, is a leading cause of biodiversity loss, depletion and […]
The COVID-19 pandemic brought significant challenges to smallholder farmers. Since 2020, they have faced declining demand from domestic markets, complete loss of market access during lockdowns, limited public transportation, rising transport costs, and increasing prices of production inputs. As a result, many farmers were forced to let their fresh produce go to waste—sometimes even using […]
REGISTER Organized by the Forest and Farm Facility in collaboration with the Vietnam Farmer’s Union (VNFU) in the context of the UN Decade of Family Farming. Climate risks that negatively impact nature and people will further limit the services natural systems provide to society, and could reduce access to food, energy, healthcare, water and international trade. Building climate […]
Last 22 August 2022, the Regional Focal Point – Asia hosted by the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) launched a series of capacity building training for its partners in Cambodia, Indonesia, and the Philippines for the Land Matrix Initiative (LMI) project. The Land Matrix is an independent global land monitoring initiative that […]
The DGRV (German Cooperative and Raiffesen Confederation), the national apex organization and top-level auditing confederation of the cooperative sector in Germany, and the AFA (Asian Farmers Association for Sustainable Rural Development), jointly conducted a three-day virtual training on Cooperative Governance, held last July 27-29, 2022, with 15 participants (7 females), from 11 members and national […]
Inclusive cooperatives and associations have a crucial role in overcoming many of the obstacles faced by women farmers in Asia. Watch the video to see how women-led cooperatives and enterprises supported the livelihoods of women farmers.
Women farmers continue to be at a disadvantage position with limited access to resources, financial services, and government subsidies, among other things. Aside from farm work, women take care of their children and the elderly. Thus, the multiple crises such as the pandemic, extreme weather events, and increase in agri input prices due to the […]
