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 […]
An organized cooperative can enable women to access government services and support. The women farmers from the indigenous groups and “so-called”, lower caste, in Kailali District in Nepal have been discriminated against for a long time. They were unable to access support because they live on government lands with no land certificates. They set up the Kalika […]
BANGKOK, THAILAND – On July 5, 2022, thirty-seven participants, members, and partners of the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) and Southeast Asia Regional Initiatives on Community Empowerment (SEARICE), from 13 Asian countries, gathered in Bangkok, Thailand for a three-day workshop, with the theme “Transforming Asia’s Food Systems Through Rights Based Solutions: Capacity […]
“The Philippines is among the top five countries in all of Asia in terms of the number of land acquisition deals made in the past 20 years. Even more alarming, as of 2021, there are potentially 3.6 million hectares — about 58 percent of all the arable land in the Philippines — that are under negotiation […]
As the regional focal point for Asia of the Land Matrix Initiative, AFA promotes the critical importance of gathering and recording information on LSLAs to raise awareness about the impacts of LSLAs at the local and national level, and to lobby for comprehensive land reform that facilitates access to and tenure over land, water, and […]
