PRESS RELEASE By Asian Farmers’ Association (AFA) November 15, 2009 On the opening of FAO’s World Summit on Food Security, Jonjon Sarmiento, a young farmer for Mindoro Island in the Philippines, and a participant to the CSO Forum Parellel to the World Summit on Food Security, will go on a hunger strike to protest the […]
16 November 2009 Hon. LITO ATIENZA Secretary Department of Environment and Natural Resources Quezon City, Philippines Dear Hon Atienza, We are participants gathered here in Rome, Italy, for the Peoples’ Food Sovereignty Now: Civil Society Organizations’ Forum Parallel to the World Summit on Food Security, being held November 14-17, 2009. Mr. Jonjon Sarmiento, one of […]
Monday, Nov 16, 2009 / 12.00-14.00 hours / Open Space Tent A side event during the CSO Forum Parallel to World Summit on Food Security / November 13, 17, 2009 Rome , Itlay The CSO Forum parallel to the World Summit on Food Security will gather leaders of peasants organizations from around the world who […]
MANUAL FOR GENDER MAINSTREAMING IN IFAD-SUPPORTED PROJECTS IN CHINA Asia and the Pacific Division Programme Management Department November 2009 Click here to download01
Women leaders from farmer organizations belonging to AFA called on international leaders involved in climate change talks to craft policies with a gender and agriculture perspective and to support capacity building for women on climate change adaptation. In a consultation entitled “Asian women farmers reclaiming space for food sovereignty amidst climate change” held last October […]
AFA joined around 2,000 individuals from different NGOs and POs from different countries in a peaceful march to the UN office in Bangkok last October 5 to demand climate justice. United under the banner of “Asian People’s Solidarity for Climate Change”, the marchers called on the developed countries (the north) to give full reparations for […]
We, the Asian Peoples’ Solidarity for Climate Justice, are gathered here in Bangkok, Thailand to take our stand in the face of an unprecedented conflict. It is a conflict over resources, a conflict driven by unfettered profiteering and the slavery of consumption, it is a conflict brought about the domination and ascendancy of private interest […]
Powerpoint Presentation: The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) Rethinking Agricultural Paradigms – We Are Not Alone BSWM Public Forum Quezon City, September 29, 2009 Prof. Norman Uphoff, CIIFAD Click here to download
