At the Food Systems Summit, the UN Secretary-General called for a food system that “can drive the global recovery in three fundamental ways – For People, For Planet, For Prosperity.” AFA shows its commitment by joining the Coalition on Agroecology, Coalition to End Hunger, and by working in solidarity with other global farmers and producer […]
Asian Family Farmers Declaration for the United Nations Food Systems Summit 2021 This is a consolidation of the key messages of small-scale women and men, young and young-at-heart family farmers, engaged in crops, livestock, fisheries, forestry, herding, and pastoralism. These key messages are the result of 11 independent dialogues in 10 countries, and 6 regional […]
Secure Land Rights for Sustainable Food Systems Infopoint Virtual Conference via Webex Meetings 27 September 2021 | 14:00-15:30 CET REGISTER Building sustainable food systems is inextricably linked with land. Join AFA in this EU InfoPoint Virtual Conference session on September 27, 2021, 14:00 CET, to learn how how secure land rights of people works as an incentive to […]
“ We cannot afford the youth to abandon farming – this is the single greatest threat to our food security. We emphasize that we can encourage the youth to take up farming if only we are able to provide ‘land to the tiller’ and to make farming dignified and decent work.” – Melissa Alamo from […]
On July 2, 2021, Prem Prakash Nepali of the National Land Right Forum (NLRF) presented the game-changing solutions led by NLRF to address the land tenure issues which affect family farmers in Nepal. Farmers and landless of Nepal have collectively played a historic role in the land rights movement since 1950 but [the issue of] […]
Women have an important role in promoting initiatives, solutions, and innovations towards food system transformation. However, in many countries, women farmers are vulnerable to inequalities and are deprived of access to land and other critical resources like knowledge, technology, and power over agricultural decision-making that impacts their agricultural productivity. AFA works with partners in Asia […]
With only 3 days before the Food Systems Summit 2021, AFA wishes to shed a light on the role of Family Farmers in Asia as game changers in making our food systems sustainable, inclusive, empowering. Family farmers are not just food producers but are knowledge producers and solution providers; and our organizations are our […]
“At SEWA we are working with women of the informal sector since last four decades to organize them because we feel that organizing is a core strength of being a trade union, we were born in 1972, so almost four decades. Now we are working in 16 states in India…” – Megha Desai, Senior […]
