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 […]
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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.)
Nov 16, Bangkok – The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) held a “Regional Conference on Food Security” last Nov 15-16, in Bangkok, Thailand. AFA was represented by its Marketing Officer, Vicky Serrato. During the break-out groups, AFA participated in the “policy reforms […]
Brasilia, Brazil – The fourteenth meeting of REAF (Reuniao Especializada Sobre Agricultura Familiar no Mercosul or Commission on Family Farming in the Southern Cone Common Market) was held last November 15-19 in Brasilia, Brazil. MERCOSUL is an intergovernmental regional integration body comprising the countries of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay with associate (expanded) countries of Bolivia […]
