Stop the New Round! Coalition PRESS RELEASE ON THE VISIT TO MANILA OF WTO DIRECTOR GENERAL PASCAL LAMY 21 February 2007 Monsieur Lamy, du Cycle de Doha n’est pas pour nous !! (The Doha Round is not for us!!) Pascal Lamy is a man with a mission. Since assuming the post of Director General of […]
AFA jointly anchored with strategic partner AsiaDHRRA a panel on “ASEAN Regional Integration in Agriculture: What It Is, How It Should Be†during the second Asean Civil Society Conference (ACSC2) held in Cebu . About 50 individuals attended the panel session, including representatives from AFA and AsiaDHRRA’s respective Executive Committees.
AFA Treasurer Vicente Fabe represented AFA in the “Seminar Workshop: Rural Producers’ Organizations for Pro-Poor Sustainable Agriculture Development†held last October 30-31, 2006 in Paris, France. The event was sponsored by CIRAD, IFAD, French Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Agriculture.
AFA participated in the 3rd Congress of the World Rural Forum with the theme “Towards Development and Solidarity-Challenge and Commitmentâ€, last October 19-21, 2006 in Basque, Spain. The Congress was sponsored by World Rural Forum, a forum for meeting, analysing and observing rural development. Former AFA Chairperson Tri Heru Wardoyo gave a presentation on AFA […]
AFA Secretary General Esther Penunia and AsiaDHRRA Program Officer Lany Rebagay successfully finished the profiling activities of 4 farmer organizations for Agriterra. The profiled organizations were: PASAKA, a provincial-based farmers’ organization in the Philippines, Sept 21-22; NATCCO, a Philippine-based confederation of cooperatives, Sept 27-28; VNFU, 0ct 3-5; and, PAKISAMA, Oct 17-18. The profiling activities gave […]
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The 15th AFA Execom Meeting was held in Batu City, Malang Indonesia last September 12, 2006, presided by Chairperson Seo, Jung Eui. Representatives from all AFA Execom member organizations — KAFF, SorKorPor, PAKISAMA, API, and TWADA — were present in the meeting. The following are some of the major decisions made by the Execom: – […]
