AFA Secretary General Esther Penunia represented AFA in the international meeting entitled “Territories, agriculture, fisheries and forestry sectors faced with climate change: A better understanding of vulnerabilities for a more efficient response” organized by FAO and UNDP last October 21-22, 2009 in Brent, Le Quartz. Click here for the program: https://asianfarmers.org/events/200910climatechangevulnerabilities/program.pdf Click here for the […]
AFA Secretary General Esther Penunia represented AFA to the World Food Week events in Rome on October 12-16, 2009. She was a panelist in one of the sessions of the High Level Experts Forum on “How to Feed the World in 2050” held at the FAO Headquarters in Rome last October 12-13. It was a […]
AFA participated in a WTO public forum entitled “Global Problems, Global Solutions: Towards Better Global Governance” held last 28 30 September 28 30, 2009 in Geneva, Switzerland. Click here for more information about the WTO Public Forum 2009: http://www.wto.org/english/forums_e/public_forum09_e/public_forum09_e.htm AFA Secretary General Esther Penunia was a panellist for a session organized by IATP on September […]
AFA and PAKISAMA support the campaign of the people of Mindoro against the entry of large-scale foreign mining that will destroy, among others, watershed areas and agricultural lands in the island province. One of PAKISAMA’s youth farmer leaders held a hunger strike during the World Food Summit in Rome in November, in solidarity with other […]
AFA held its 24th Execom Meeting last October 5-6, 2009 in Bangkok, Thailand. During the meeting, the Execom decided on important organizational matters as well as the plans for the next year, including the preparations for the next General Assembly which will be held in Taiwan in March 2010.
Iriga City — Secretary General Kazuhiro Yamamoto and Ainou magazine editor Ryoko Tsuboi of Ainoukai, an AFA member organization promoting organic agriculture in Japan, are in the Philippines for a study tour on organic agriculture in PAKISAMA member and partner areas. They are joined by Dr. Tiuro Miura, Mr. Takaya Machigami, Mr. Santosh Kumar, Mr. […]
International Climate Change Negotiations: Ensuring Support for Adaptation and Mitigation Measures in Smallholder Agriculture AFA Issue paper, Volume 2 Number 4, December 2009 DOWNLOAD: International Climate Change Negotiations: Ensuring Support for Adaptation and Mitigation Measures in Smallholder Agriculture In December 2009, women in Sayphusi, a village in the province of Attapeu in Laos, were busy […]
PRESS RELEASE Civil Society Urges Heads of State to Support Food Reserves to Address Hunger, Stabilise Markets Civil society organisations have called on governments attending the World Summit on Food Security (16-18 November) to support the use of food reserves as an essential step towards achieving universal food security. In a letter released at the […]
