The Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development will hold the event “Regional Sharing Workshop Building our Agenda for Farmers in Forested Landscapes” on August 2-3, 2015 in Yangon, Myanmar. The event will be hosted by its member, the Agriculture and Farmer Federation Myanmar (AFFM) with support from the FAO-Forest and Farm Facility (FFF). There […]
Published in 1991, this practical and insightful book is still as relevant as ever. The author, Shimpei Murakami, who is now AFA’s Chairperson, has shared a PDF copy for the public. From the Foreword: “This book, Lessons from Nature by Mr. Shimpei Murakami is a praiseworthy attempt to explore the rules and principle’s of nature […]
A project supported by the Forest and Farm Facility of the UN-FAO Strengthening engagement of Asian small scale women and men forests and farm producers in global and regional processes The project aims to consolidate the voices of its members in 8 countries who are living in forested landscapes and thereby strengthening AFA’s legitimacy, accountability, […]
Committee on Food Security (CFS) Side event on Forests and Family Farming for food Security and Nutrition (16 October 2014, Rome) AFA co-organized a side event with FAO Forestry Department and Forest and Farm Facility together with the Indigenous Partnership for Agro-biodiversity and Food Sovereignty. AFA was represented by Mr. Lyam Bahadur Darjee, a farmer […]
Adaptation Fund for Smallholder Agriculture: Enabling Developing Countries to Survive Climate Change AFA Issue Paper, Volume 3, Number 2, December 2011 DOWNLOAD: Adaptation Fund for Smallholder Agriculture: Enabling Developing Countries to Survive Climate Change Sumalee’s tears welled up as she watched the flood wash away the crops that she had been carefully tending only a […]
Smallholder Agriculture and Food Systems: Responding to the Challenge of Food Price Volatility AFA Issue Paper, Volume 3, Number 1, November 2011 DOWNLOAD: Smallholder Agriculture and Food Systems: Responding to the Challenge of Food Price Volatility In 2008, Ka Lita, a woman rice farmer in the Philippines, stood in a long line to buy rice […]
By Jun Virola (junvirola@yahoo.com) Tiaong, Quezon, Philippines, 17 June 2011 – Farmers can augment their income from farming by raising native chicken through the natural farming system. Following this lead, PAKISAMA farmers and their supporters visited the Earthkeepers learning farm in Quezon province today to see how such a system works. Vicente Fabe, PAKISAMA National […]
New Delhi, India – The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) held a high level conference entitled “Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition and Health,” last February 10-12, 2011 at Taj Palace, New Delhi, India. The conference was attended by more than a thousand participants. AFA was represented by its Secretary General, Esther Penunia. This conference brought […]
