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.
AFA representatives Vic Fabe of PAKISAMA and Khun Wikit of SorKorPor, together with the AFA Project Officer for Operations Jun Virola and other representatives from SorKorPor, including its Secretary General Chaiwat Suravichai, attended the convention and training on Natural Farming in Jeju, South Korea on 4-15 November 2007. The convention provided an opportunity for AFA […]
AFA representatives from PAKISAMA (Ka Vic Fabe) and SorKorPor (Khun Wikit), together with the AFA Project Officer for Operations (Jun Virola) and other representatives from SorKorPor (including its Secretary General Chaiwat Suravichai) attended the convention and training on Natural Farming in Jeju, South Korea last November 4-15, 2007.
There were three successive conferences organized by CSOs prior to the ASEAN Summit, all hoping to make inputs to the official Summit. AFA attended all three major conferences: 6th ASEAN People’s Assembly (APA), ASEAN Civil Society Conference (ACSC) 2007 and ASEAN Civil Society Conference (ACSC) 3. Due to its active participation, AFA became visible and […]
(The following is the declaration that came out of the International Conference on Natural Farming held in Jeju, South Korea on November 5-9, 2007 that was attended by AFA, represented by Treasurer Vicente Fabe and Project Officer Marciano Virola, Jr. SorKorPor, an AFA member in Thailand, also attended, represented by Chairperson Vikit and Secretary General […]
There were three successive conferences organized by CSOs prior to the ASEAN Summit, all hoping to make inputs to the official Summit. AFA attended all three major conferences: APA, ACSC 2007 and ACSC+3. Due to its active participation, AFA became visible and farmers’ issues were discussed during plenary and panel sessions. Through these conferences, linkages […]
The AFA Secretary General attended the Synthesis Conference-ACSC 2007 held last October 27-28 in Singapore. This was organized by the Singapore Institute for International Affairs (SIIA).
