7 November 2016, Jakarta, Indonesia — Farmer organizations and civil society organizations are holding a roundtable discussion with the EU and ASEAN to share existing initiatives and discuss/brainstorm on a potential tripartite regional program cooperation among FOs/CSOs, ASEAN and EU for strengthening the role of youth and agricultural cooperatives in the ASEAN regional integration process […]
[FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva and Reema Nanavaty, Director, Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) at the signing ceremony. (c) FAO] New AFA member SEWA in India has signed a memorandum of understanding last September 13 with FAO “to intensify joint efforts aimed at building the capacities of the rural poor to fully benefit from […]
September 11, 2016, Kavre, Nepal — The consortium Asian Farmers Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) and La Via Campesina (LVC), regional implementing agencies (RIA) of the Medium Term Cooperation Program Phase 2 (MTCP2), concluded here a three-day retooling and planning workshop for the remaining one and a half years of implementation in four countries, […]
[7th AFA GA, Hanoi, Vietnam, 5 August 2016 (c) AFA 2016] AFA has approved a new strategic plan for 2016-2020 during its 7th general assembly held last August 5 in Hanoi, Vietnam. It includes a definition of AFA’s nature and a revision of its vision and mission statement and peasant agenda. The strategic plan was […]
(c) Esther Penunia/AFA July 24, 2016. Yangon Myanmar . The Agriculture and Farmers Federation of Myanmar (AFFM) in partnership with its mother trade union Confederation of Trade Unions Myanmar (CTUM) and its regional farmer organization Asian Farmers Association (AFA), organized a two day national farmers forum last July 23-24, 2016 in Yangon, Myanmar. The forum […]
Unang Kabanata – Background ANG KALIKASAN AT AGRIKULTURA Kung ating pagi-isipan ng maigi ang agrikultura – at ang mga problema at mga pag-unlad nito- dapat tayong matuto sa kalikasan. Bakit? Sapagkat ang kalikasan ang modelo o huwaran. Sa produksyon ng biomass, pangangalaga sa taba ng lupa, pangangalaga ng lupa, pagkontrol sa peste, paggamit ng enerhiya […]
Lessons From Nature by Asian Farmers’ Association DOWNLOAD: kkm-lessons-from-nature-bangladesh
The Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development, a regional alliance of 17 national federations and organizations of small scale women and men farmers and producers from 13 countries in Asia, will hold its 7th general assembly in Hanoi, Vietnam on August 1-7, 2016, to be hosted by the Viet Nam Farmer Union, one of the […]
