Around the world, people have adapted to ongoing global crises, and we at the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) are no exception. Yet GAFSP’s mandate today is more relevant than ever. Indeed, demand for GAFSP funding reached new highs of over $1 billion in our last Call for Proposals – ten times what GAFSP was […]
This article has been written by Reemaben Nanavaty of the Self Employed Women’s Association (sewa.org) for the grassroots Hindi newsletter, Anusuya. Farmers have been protesting at the national capital for over a month now, a build-up from local protests that started back in August. On Kisan Diwas, protesting farmers met with water cannons and barricades […]
Background The concept of Branding has been around for hundreds of years and likely much longer. What it means to brand something has broadened quite a bit since the word first came into use. Despite the changes, each of the older kinds of branding is still widely used today. To date, distribution channels are far-reaching […]
In support of the UN Decade of Family Farming (UNDFF), the Asian Farmers’ Association (AFA) and its partner organizations conducted virtual events that aimed at strengthening efforts to empower family farmers as well as highlight the important role of family farmers in achieving food security. Sustaining Family Farming in Asia-Pacific through inclusive, farmer-driven approaches One […]
In a world where 2/5 of the world’s plants and a million species now face extinction, where we lose rainforests the size of a football field every minute, and where agriculture is causing 80% of ecosystem degradation, contributing to climate change and biodiversity loss and degraded soils, can we cultivate a common ground between agriculture […]
October 5, 2020. The Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) held its 9th General Assembly last October 5, 2020, via Zoom. The event was attended by AFA members representing women, men, and youth farmers from 13 member organizations of AFA. Due to the covid 19 pandemic, the AFA GA was held virtually for […]
REGISTER HERE Introduction South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) comprising eight countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) where 65% of the population residing in rural areas. A large majority of the rural population are smallholder family farmers adopting integrated farming system consisting of agriculture, forestry, fisheries, pastoral and aquaculture […]
Three young women farmers from Tikegyi township, Yangon Region, Myanmar whose parents became members of the Agriculture and Farmers Federation of Myanmar (AFFM) in 2016 always work diligently in their paddy fields. After becoming members of AFFM, they received opportunities to attend various trainings. In 2020, the country’s Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, and Irrigation implemented […]
