In behalf of the consortium of the Asian Farmers’ Association (AFA) and La Via Campesina (LVC), which has been chosen as Sub-Regional Implementing Agency (SRIA) for the Medium Term Cooperation Program Phase 2 (MTCP2) in Southeast Asia and China, Esther Penunia and Lany Rebagay anchored a three-day start-up mission in Myanmar in order to raise […]
Farmer organizations participating in MTCP2 in India met last January 29, 2014 in Guwahati, Assam (with some joining via Skype) in order to reconstitute the national programme oversight board and to include more farmer organizations and new farming sectors. Sharda Kant from Rajasthan, Anita Parmar from Gujarat, Sevika Basumatry from Assam, Pity from Meghalaya, Maheshwari […]
Farmer organizations in Bangladesh gathered last January 17, 2014 at the Coast Trust in Dhaka for an orientation on the Medium Term Cooperation Program Phase 2 that will be implemented in the country as well as other countries in Southeast Asia, South Asia, and the Pacific. Twenty participants, four of which were females, representing nine […]
During the meeting, it was announced that the FAO DG has nominated Ms. Esther Penunia from the Philippines, Secretary-General of AFA, as IYFF Special Ambassador for Asia and the Pacific. Her official appointment will be done during the opening session of the GFEFF in Budapest. (Download: ISC Minutes Meeting 28 January 2014-FINAL)
Pattaya, Thailand — In a meeting convened by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Thailand today, the Asian Farmers’ Association (AFA), through its representative Policy Advocacy Officer Ma. Elena Rebagay, emphasized the role of small holder farmers in the vision for the regional rice sector 2030. The vision is contained in the draft […]
(PAKISAMA National Coordinator Raul Socrates Banzuela is attending this meeting in behalf of AFA.) PRESS RELEASE IYFF-2014: WORLDWIDE FARMERS LEADERS MEET DURING ABU DHABI SUSTAINABILITY WEEK IN ORDER TO AGREE GLOBAL DEMANDS TO BOOST FAMILY FARMING · Participants seek global consensus on the major claims that Civil Society Organizations will transmit to decision makers during […]
AFA and PAKISAMA attended the Asian People’s Land Rights Tribunal (16-17 January 2014, University of the Philippines College of Law, Quezon City, Philippines), which tackled the land grab phenomenon that is infecting the rural Southeast Asian landscape. In 2009, 20,000 hectares were forcibly taken from Cambodia farmers to grow sugar for export. 17,000 hectares of […]
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