ISIS Press Release 04/12/07 When ISIS organised its briefing at European Parliament in June (Scientists and MEPs for a GM free Europe, SiS 35), we already knew that one of our speakers, Irina Ermakova, has had her funding withdrawn because the results of her experiments (GM Soya Fed Rats: Stunted, Dead, or Sterile, SiS 33) […]
News and information about Aliansi Petani Indonesia (API) are now available online at http://api-indonesia.blogspot.com/. The blog is being maintained by API’s IT staff, Nur Hadi.
The following opinion column by Social Weather Station Founder Mahar Mahangas reviews the case of the Sumilao farmers and the difficulties of implementing agrarian reform in the Philippines. Read more
The following opinion column by former Philippine National Economic Development Authority Director Solita Collas-Monsod points to the positive impact of land ownership on poverty reduction and growth and the need to continue the Philippine’s Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) until the completion of its land distribution targets. Read more
AFA participated in the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific’s (UNEP-ESCAP) Regional Implementation Meeting (RIM) ) for the 16th session of the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) held last November 26-27, 2007 at Hotel Borubudur in Jakarta, Indonesia.
AFA attended a meeting hosted by the UNI-ASETUC (ASEAN Service Employee Trade Union council) meeting last November 26, 2007. SorKorPor Secretary General Chaiwat Suravichai represented AFA to this meeting. He met then incoming ASEAN Secretary General Dr. Surin Pitsuwan Mr.Christopher Ng (Regional Secretary of UNI Apro Regional Secretary) Dr. Rene E Ofreneo (ASEAN Inter-University Conference) […]
AFA will hold a regional consultation workshop, entitled “ASEAN at 40: Challenges to Asian Farmers Posed by the Charter and Economic Community Blueprint”. The workshop will be held on December 20-21, in Bangkok, Thailand. It will be hosted by Sor Kor Por, or Farmers’ Federations’ Association for Development in Thailand. This consultation is part of […]
Advocates for environmental protection and safe agricultural practices have called leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) to come up with concrete policies that are protective of the interest of and welfare of the small farmers in the Asian region.
