The Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) will hold the event entitled “AFA@10: Celebrating Successes, Taking On More Challenges: AFA Regional Consultations and 5th AFA General Assembly” on March 7-9, 2012 in Hanoi, Vietnam. It will also be a celebration of the federation’s 10th anniversary. The general assembly will be hosted by its […]
Land Grabs or Large Scale Land Investments? Protecting Farmers’ Rights to Land AFA Issue Paper, Volume 4, Number 1, March 2012 DOWNLOAD: Land Grabs or Large Scale Land Investments? Protecting Farmers’ Rights to Land WHAT IS LAND GRABBING? WHAT ARE LARGE-SCALE LAND INVESTMENTS? ARE THEY THE SAME? “Large scale land investments” and “land grabbing” are […]
AFA attended the preparatory CSO meeting last January 18-19, 2012 in Hanoi, Vietnam hosted by AFA member Viet Nam Farmers Union (VNFU). The objective of the meeting was to discuss the details of preparation for the CSO parallel forum to the 31st FAO Asia- Pacific Regional Conference which will be held on March 12-16, 2012. […]
On the second day of the fourth global meeting of the Farmers Forum on February 21, 2012, the Medium Term Cooperation Program with FOs in the Asia Pacific got a good review. The IFAD social reporting blog says: The results of the first phase of the MTCP were very encouraging. “Consultation with FOs in the […]
At the opening session of the fourth meeting of the Farmers Forum 2012 on February 20, 2012, the Asian Famers’ Association (AFA), a Steering Committee member of FAFO, asked IFAD to partner with farmers organizations in upscaling and mainstreaming sustainable agriculture. In the opening statement read by Secretary General Ma. Estrella Penunia, AFA informed IFAD […]
Opening Statement Farmers’ Forum 2012 Asian Farmers’ Association (AFA) February 20, 2012 Good morning to everyone! In behalf of the Asian Farmers Association, we greet you all a belated happy lunar new year of the Water Dragon! Since we last met in 2010, we have made some victories. First, the UN has declared 2014 as […]
ON the first day of the FAFO 2012 in Rome, Italy, AFA asserted the role of smallholders in agricultural development. IFAD social reporting blog quotes AFA Secretary General Esther Penunia as follows: Other speakers asserted that small-scale producers should be more directly involved in the design and implementation of rural development plans at all levels. […]
Mr. Mohammad Nuruddin, Secretary General of API and active ExeCom member of AFA, gives an opening message during the ASEAN Session on “Civil Society Organization (CSO) and the Agriculture and Forestry Sector in the ASEAN Region, held at the ASEAN Headquaters in Jakarta, Indonesia last February 16, 2012. The activity was attended by Dr. Surin […]
