Twenty participants attended the Business Skills Training organized by the Agriculture and Farmer Federation of Myanmar (AFFM) at Sky Hotel, North Dagon Tsp, Yangon, Myanmar on 24-25 August 2019. Fourteen of the participants are female while six are male and all of them belong to the youth sector (under 35 years old). Click here to view […]
Pecuaria Development Cooperative, Inc.
AFA Secretary General Esther Penunia Banzuela discusses about AFA perspectives on World Agricultures Watch.
Cresente Paez and Jojo Ebron of the Cooperative Development Program of AFA attend the first meeting of the consortium of partners organized by Agricooph Federation to discuss the partners’ roles on the strengthening of agri cooperatives in Mindanao and explore a partnership engagement with the EU and GIZ on 8 August 2019. This meeting was […]
The ASEAN Ministers on Agriculture and Forestry (AMAF) adopted the Guidelines for Responsible Agro Investments (RAI) last October 2018. A workshop to formulate and Operationalize an Action plan was held July 30-31, 2019 in Bangkok, Thailand. Representatives from three regional/international forest and farm producer organizations (FFPOs)–Asian Farmers’ Association (represented by AFA Secretary General Esther […]
AFA member NADF supports the rehabilitation of pastures and forestry in Tajikistan through its participation in the Zarafshon Basin Project, a project supported by the European Union (EU) and in cooperation with WHH (Welthungerhilfe) and Landell Mills. These partners organized a training on the “Rehabilitation of native pasture grasses by collecting and broadcasting” in the […]
Forty participants from six member countries of the South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)–Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Maldives, Sri Lanka–comprising country focal persons experts from their ministries of agriculture and cooperatives, leaders of farmers organizations implementing the Medium Term Cooperation Phase 2 (MTCP2), a capacity building program for Farmers Organizations supported by the International […]
BANGKOK, Thailand–The 2019 Mekong Knowledge and Learning Fair, held in Bangkok, Thailand on 10-12 July 2019, attracted nearly 200 participants consisting of high level officials from the government of countries within the Mekong region and the Philippines, representatives from IFAD country offices, IFAD grants / supported projects, private sector, and farmers’ organizations (FOs) including the […]
