Representatives from Land Matrix partner organizations from Bangladesh, Nepal, Cambodia, and Myanmar participated in the two-day “Land Matrix Training Workshop on Data Management” at the Partnership Center, Quezon City, Philippines on 16-17 October 2019 and on 4-5 November for partners in Indonesia. The objective of the workshop is to train the participants from different partner […]
Bangkok, Thailand – The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA), with support from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), jointly conducted a training workshop on the legal and policy aspects of contract farming on 28-30 October 2019 in Bangkok, Thailand. The […]
The Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) participated in the Rural Development and Food Security Forum 2019 held at the Asian Development Bank Headquarters in Mandaluyong City, Philippines on 28-30 October 2019. During the farmers roundtable discussion, smallholder farmers from the Philippines, Nepal, and Indonesia and agriculture companies and development partners shared about […]
Around 170 participants including members of various cooperatives and cooperative consortiums and federations in the Philippines, representatives from concerned government agencies, and development partners convened at the Century Park Hotel in Manila, Philippines for the first ever National Agricultural Cooperatives Knowledge & Learning, Innovation and Trade Expo (AgriCoops – KITE) on 22-25 October 2019. This […]
PAYAKUMBUH, INDONESIA – AFA member Aliansi Petani Indonesia (API) held an agricultural entrepreneurship training for young farmers in Indonesia on 1-4 October 2019 at Padang, Payakumbuh, Indonesia. The training, which aims to equip young farmers with skills in pioneering entrepreneurship in farmer-led agricultural cooperative in the rural areas, was conducted through the AFOSP-MTCP2 Programme. API […]
AFA Secretary General Esther Penunia and Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) – Civil Society Organization (CSO) Asia representative and Technical Adviser Raul Socrates Banzuela went to Timor Leste in October 2018 to get updates about the implementation of Sustainable Agriculture Productivity Improvement Project (SAPIP) which is funded by GAFSP. The GAFSP – CSO Mission […]
Focal persons from the ASEAN Sectoral Working Group on Agricultural Cooperative (ASGWAC), ASEAN Secretariat, CSOs, agri-agencies and private sector participated in the Second Regional Workshop on Developing the Action Plan of the ASEAN Roadmap for Agricultural Cooperatives was at the ASEAN Secretariat, Jakarta, Indonesia on 25 September 2019. The participants deliberated on the action plan that was […]
A five-member team from the Asian Farmers’ Association (AFA) carried out a Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) – Civil Society Organization (CSO) country visit to Bhutan on 15-23 September 2019. The mission team, consisting of AFA Secretary-General Esther Penunia, Asia Pacific Farmers’ Program Coordinator Lany Rebagay, AFA Cooperative Development Manager Jojo Ebron, AFA […]
