Challenges and Opportunities for forest user organizations in forest resource management and sustainable forest based livelihoods Presentation by Reymondo A. Caraan Senior Program Officer, Securing Community Forestry RECOFTC, The Center for People and Forests August 2-3, 2015, Yangon, Myanmar Mr. Reymondo Caraan (RECOFTC) gave an overview on how to get more rights awarded to forest […]
AFA will take part in the Asia-Pacific Local Champions Exhibition to be held at the Royal Agriculture University of Cambodia in Phnom Penh on August 10-12.
The Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development will hold the event “Regional Sharing Workshop Building our Agenda for Farmers in Forested Landscapes” on August 2-3, 2015 in Yangon, Myanmar. The event will be hosted by its member, the Agriculture and Farmer Federation Myanmar (AFFM) with support from the FAO-Forest and Farm Facility (FFF). There […]
A Viable Future: Attracting the Youth to Agriculture DOWNLOAD: A Viable Future: Attracting the Youth to Agriculture Youth is often the time when a person starts to dream of the future, think of the path to take and boldly and aggressively set his/her life in motion. In many rural villages, to be a farmer is […]
Published in 1991, this practical and insightful book is still as relevant as ever. The author, Shimpei Murakami, who is now AFA’s Chairperson, has shared a PDF copy for the public. From the Foreword: “This book, Lessons from Nature by Mr. Shimpei Murakami is a praiseworthy attempt to explore the rules and principle’s of nature […]
A project supported by the Forest and Farm Facility of the UN-FAO Strengthening engagement of Asian small scale women and men forests and farm producers in global and regional processes The project aims to consolidate the voices of its members in 8 countries who are living in forested landscapes and thereby strengthening AFA’s legitimacy, accountability, […]
How big a deal is agriculture in ASEAN? It contributes 39.9% to Myanmar’s GDP. It employs 60.3% of Cambodia’s labor force. ASEAN is home to 5 out of 10 top rice producers in the world. How does climate change harm ASEAN’s food basket? Every 1C rise in temperature can reduce yield by 10%. Temperature has […]
The following are documents from the forum “Fighting Hunger through Partnerships” organized by Pambansang Kilusan ng mga Samahang Magsasaka (PAKISAMA), in cooperation with Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) and Collectif Strategies Alimentaire ( CSA), on March 24, 2015 at the Institute for Social Order (ISO), Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines. The […]
