AFA, with support from CSA and supplementary support from AsiaDHRRA and ThaiDHRRA, conducted a Scoping Mission and National Cooperatives and Social Enterprises Forum in Thailand on 8-15 September 2019. The team, consisting of AFA Secretary General Esther Penunia, AFA Cooperative Development Program Manager Jojo Ebron, and Cezar Belangel of AsiaDHRRA, accompanied by ThaiDHRRA, went to […]
Twenty participants attended the Business Skills Training organized by the Agriculture and Farmer Federation of Myanmar (AFFM) at Sky Hotel, North Dagon Tsp, Yangon, Myanmar on 24-25 August 2019. Fourteen of the participants are female while six are male and all of them belong to the youth sector (under 35 years old). Click here to view […]
Pecuaria Development Cooperative, Inc.
Cresente Paez and Jojo Ebron of the Cooperative Development Program of AFA attend the first meeting of the consortium of partners organized by Agricooph Federation to discuss the partners’ roles on the strengthening of agri cooperatives in Mindanao and explore a partnership engagement with the EU and GIZ on 8 August 2019. This meeting was […]
Forty participants from six member countries of the South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)–Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Maldives, Sri Lanka–comprising country focal persons experts from their ministries of agriculture and cooperatives, leaders of farmers organizations implementing the Medium Term Cooperation Phase 2 (MTCP2), a capacity building program for Farmers Organizations supported by the International […]
BANGKOK, Thailand–The 2019 Mekong Knowledge and Learning Fair, held in Bangkok, Thailand on 10-12 July 2019, attracted nearly 200 participants consisting of high level officials from the government of countries within the Mekong region and the Philippines, representatives from IFAD country offices, IFAD grants / supported projects, private sector, and farmers’ organizations (FOs) including the […]
The MTCP2 Supervision and Implementation Support (SIS) mission team visited Vietnam Farmers Union and its partner FOs in July 2019 to get updates on their activities conducted with support from MTCP2 Programme. Private enterprises such as Han Vinh Coffee supports farmers. Around 110 out of 1,200 coffee suppliers are supported by AFOSP-MTCP2. Aside from purchasing […]
LAOS – Mueng Lao Food Company, a local business based in Vientiane capital, Laos, has been studying fresh vegetable market for over a year and found out that massive fresh produce is being imported from Thailand to feed the people of Vientiane. More than seven (7) tons of spring onions alone is being imported on a […]
