Family farmers’ organizations (FOs) in the Philippines celebrate the first year of the UN Decade of Family Farming (UNDFF) during the Knowledge Learning Market and Policy Engagement 2019 held in 13-14 November 2019 at Ang Bahay ng Alumni, UP, Quezon City, Philippines. With the theme “Celebrating the International Decade of Family Farming: Strengtheing the Role […]
Representatives from Land Matrix partner organizations from Bangladesh, Nepal, Cambodia, and Myanmar participated in the two-day “Land Matrix Training Workshop on Data Management” at the Partnership Center, Quezon City, Philippines on 16-17 October 2019 and on 4-5 November for partners in Indonesia. The objective of the workshop is to train the participants from different partner […]
Bangkok, Thailand – The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA), with support from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), jointly conducted a training workshop on the legal and policy aspects of contract farming on 28-30 October 2019 in Bangkok, Thailand. The […]
The Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) participated in the Rural Development and Food Security Forum 2019 held at the Asian Development Bank Headquarters in Mandaluyong City, Philippines on 28-30 October 2019. During the farmers roundtable discussion, smallholder farmers from the Philippines, Nepal, and Indonesia and agriculture companies and development partners shared about […]
Around 170 participants including members of various cooperatives and cooperative consortiums and federations in the Philippines, representatives from concerned government agencies, and development partners convened at the Century Park Hotel in Manila, Philippines for the first ever National Agricultural Cooperatives Knowledge & Learning, Innovation and Trade Expo (AgriCoops – KITE) on 22-25 October 2019. This […]
Hamburg, Germany – The Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) attended the annual steering committee of the Land Matrix Initiative (LMI) as the regional focal point in Asia in Hamburg, Germany on 21-24 October 2019. In this annual activity, LMI partners convene to report their progress and formulate their plans and priorities for […]
PAYAKUMBUH, INDONESIA – AFA member Aliansi Petani Indonesia (API) held an agricultural entrepreneurship training for young farmers in Indonesia on 1-4 October 2019 at Padang, Payakumbuh, Indonesia. The training, which aims to equip young farmers with skills in pioneering entrepreneurship in farmer-led agricultural cooperative in the rural areas, was conducted through the AFOSP-MTCP2 Programme. API […]
AFA Secretary General Esther Penunia and Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) – Civil Society Organization (CSO) Asia representative and Technical Adviser Raul Socrates Banzuela went to Timor Leste in October 2018 to get updates about the implementation of Sustainable Agriculture Productivity Improvement Project (SAPIP) which is funded by GAFSP. The GAFSP – CSO Mission […]
