RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – Dambar Praja is a 40-year woman organic farmer from Nepal. She grows maize, millet, beans, sunflower, and other crops on her 0.5 hectares of land in Darechok, Chitwan. Hiromitsu Iio is a 36-year old male organic farmer from Japan. He grows chrysanthemum, beans, potato, and onion in an 8-hectare land […]
AFA actively participated in the discussions and deliberations on the following statement together with other farmers organizations during the CSO side events at the UNCSD Rio+20. The Farmers Major Group was convened by La Via Campesina and the World Farmers’ Organization. OPENING STATEMENT Conference in Sustainable Development Rio+20 June 20, 2012 FARMERS MAJOR GROUP Mr. […]
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – AFA delegates to the Rio+20 joined the dialogue session on “Agricultural Transition” organized by the More and Better network last June 17 at the Rio Centro in Rio de Janeiro Brazil. The dialogue session is one among of many civil society parallel events being held in conjunction with the Rio+20 […]
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – The Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) calls on world leaders attending the Rio+20 Summit in Brazil to commit to policies that support sustainable agro-ecology with small scale women and men farmers. AFA believes that such kind of agriculture will help realize the the future that small scale women […]
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – The Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Development (AFA) is participating in the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) being held here on June 16-22, 2012. It is the first time that AFA has visited Brazil and Latin AmRerica, where it has a partner regional farmers’ organization called COPROFAM (“International […]
The organic industry holds a huge potential for small women and men farmers in Asia. In order to understand the situation of the industry and see how farmers can benefit, AFA has been conducting industry consultations together with its member FOs in different Asian countries. Organic vegetable in Vietnam In Vietnam, the Vietnam Farmers Union (VNFU) […]
AFA, together with its member VNFU, is co-organizing with AsiaDHRRA and VietDHRRA a CSO preparatory meeting today, June 11, 2012 in Danang, Vietnam. The CSO preparatory meeting hopes to bring together CSOs attending the first CSO-GO dialogue with the Senior Officers Meeting on Rural Development and Poverty Eradication (SOMRDPE), which will be held in Furasama […]
The Steering Committee of the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP), held its fifth meeting last May 22-23 in Washington, DC. Present during the meeting were the three CSO representatives: Ms. Ruchi Tripathi from Action Aid UK representing Northern CSOs; Mr. Djibo Bagna from ROPPA representing African CSOs, with Mamadou Goita, also from ROPPA, […]
