With the worsening of the global food crisis, general international agreement has emerged regarding the importance of smallholder agriculture in the battle against hunger and poverty. However, public debate has been highly restricted and increasingly dominated by conventional, market-led, and corporate approaches to aid and agricultural development. These positions call for a return to the […]
Influential Bill Gates shares his ideas on what he considers a convergent issue on productivity and sustainability as complementary approaches to helping small farmers towards food security. What are your thoughts and reactions on this? Helping poor farmers improve productivity is a critical step in reducing global hunger. But there is an ideological divide over […]
In situ conservation techniques are an effective way to improve, maintain and use traditional or native varieties of agricultural crops. In order to empower farmers to take on this important, yet challenging task, national programmes could be of great importance in providing assistance and guidance. This manual is intended to provide a broad range of […]
The Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum) is a global community of practitioners with currently 1620 members from across the world’s five continents. It offers a neutral platform for interaction and knowledge exchange through online discussions on food security and nutrition and related topics; discussions are driven by the member’s needs and […]
The epic blow-up at Copenhagen was ultimately about something very simple. It was about economic growth — about who gets to grow, how fast, under what terms, using which energy supplies. Within this purportedly zero-sum framework, if China grows quickly, burning cheap coal for fuel, with a slowly increasing amount of renewables added to the […]
AFA attended the 3rd Summit in the Global Series on Sustainably Sourcing Agricultural Raw Materials organized by the London Business Conferences in IBIS Earls Court, London last November 30 to December 1, 2009. AFA was represented by PAKISAMA Vice President for Mindanao Michael Saguisihan who gave a presentation on the situation of coconut farmers in […]
AFA participated in a brainstorming on ASEAN stakeholder engagement held on November 23-25 at the Hotel Gran Mahakam in Jakarta, Indonesia. Click here for the news article from the ASEAN website: http://www.aseansec.org/23972.htm#Article-9
AFA participated in an international conference entitled “People’s Food Sovereignty Now: Civil Society Organizations (CSO) Forum Parallel to World Summit on Food Security 2009″ held on November 13-17, in Rome, Italy. AFA was represented by Ms. Sudaporn Sittisathapornkul (Khun Paew), Chairperson, AFA, and Adviser, SKP; Mr. Pote Chumsri (Khun Pote), Secretary General, SKP and translator; […]
