REPORT: Support to GAFSP CSO Asia (January – August 8, 2017) Introduction and Background Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) such as farmer organizations (FOs), Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), outreach groups, and universities have varying roles in country-led strategic planning that GAFSP aims to support. Effective empowerment of farmers in country program implementation through producer organizations, for example, […]
REPORT: Support to GAFSP CSO Asia (August – December 2017) Introduction and Background The GAFSP Steering Committee, the Program’s decision-making body, has allocated three seats to Civil Society Organizations (CSOs): a seat to represent the voice of CSOs in African developing countries, a seat to represent the voice of CSOs in Asian developing countries, and […]
Although Sri Lanka is famous all over the world for its Ceylon tea, the first plantation crop under the British rule in Ceylon (the colonial name of Sri Lanka) was coffee. In the early years of British rule in the country, coffee was a very minor crop propagated by peasants. However, the coffee plantations were […]
Dave De Vera of Pafid provides an orientation on participatory mapping and resource inventory, the first activity for the National Land Observatory (NLO) Philippines, a joint project with the Asian Farmers’ Association. Source: PAKISAMA
The Group brought together experts from ASEAN and beyond to provide critical input to key regional guiding documents The Mekong Expert Group on Agroforestry for Food and Nutrition Security, Sustainable Agriculture and Land Restoration was formed in early 2018 with support from the Swedish Agriculture Network Initiative (SIANI) to help address major land-use challenges in the ten […]
In Bangladesh, there is a rampant use of hazardous pesticides in preserving sea fish. These chemical-coated fish are consumed by people all throughout the country and its byproducts are made into poultry feeds. Through MTCP2, four dry fish producer groups have been formed to produce dried fish without using pesticides. After going through theoretical and […]
The Global Fund for Agriculture (also referred to as the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program or GAFSP) was established in April 2010 after the 2007-2008 global food crisis. Aid to small-scale agriculture had been steadily decreasing for decades despite the fact that there are over 500 million small-scale food producers and that growth in […]
AgriCOOPh welcomed 22 Vietnamese delegates from the German Cooperative and Raiffeisen Confederation (DGRV) on January 6-11, 2019 for a week-long Advanced Training and Learning Visit in the Philippines. The activity aimed to deliver advanced training for selected staff of provincial cooperative alliances of Vietnam. The delegates traveled to Batangas for a two-day study visit in […]
