The Steering Committee of the Southeast Asia sub region plus china of the Medium Term Collaboration Program with Farmers Organizations in Asia and the Pacific Region (MTCP) met last Nov 28 , 2010 in Bangkok, Thailand, to monitor progress of implementation in 2010 and get lessons learned, make a draft plan and budget for 2011 […]
Malaysian environmental activist Aida Ismah contributed the following article on the growing popularity of used cooking oil as a source of biofuel, which can help reduce green house emissions in the atmosphere: Biofuel is considered as the purest, easiest and most available fuel on the planet. Biofuel is looked upon as a way of energy […]
In an interview with Earth Concern Asia, AFA Secretary General Esther Penunia talks about the need to refocus efforts and investments in agriculture towards sustainable, integrated, diversified agriculture done and managed by organized groups of small scale women and men farmers, fishers, indigenous peoples in order to achieve food security and poverty reduction in the […]
Online Resource: Farm Business School: Training of Farmers Programme South Asia Manual FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS REGIONAL OFFICE FOR ASIA AND THE PACIFIC BANGKOK, 2011 Click here to download
THE BACKPACK FARM AGRICULTURE PROGRAM Kuza 2011 Training Manual Click here to download
Accra, Ghana, Dec 8 – The Strategy and Policy Group (SPG) of the Sahel and West Africa Club (SWAC) held its annual Forum last Dec 7-8 , at Accrra, Ghana, entitled “Regional Solidarity to Address Food Crisis”. AFA through its representative, Vicky Serrato, Marketing Officer, and together with Lany Rebagay of AsiaDHRRA, presented the initiatives […]
(In celebration of Christmas and New Year, the AFA secretariat office will be closed on Dec 20, 2010-January 3, 2011.)
