BACKGROUND In 2018 and 2017 respectively, 51% of the world’s poorest and 62% of the hungry are in the Asia Pacific mostly in the rural areas. Ironically, the region has 80% of farming families working on two hectares average and producing 60% of the world’s food. Of those engaged in agriculture here, 50% are women […]
With an immense spirit to develop the farming industry in ASEAN countries, farmers who are coming from 10 member states of ASEAN are driven together for the betterment of the farming industry in ASEAN. These farmers require as much support as possible from ASEAN and its partner, the EU. We are sharing these impact stories […]
Update from NADF’s implementation of Zarafshon Integrated Basin Programme, Landell Mills, funded by EU. The National Association of Dekhan Farms (NADF) is a member of AFA in Tajikistan. — On 12 November 2019 in the Zarafshon valley of Tajikistan, took place a republican seminar on the subject of Implementation of Pasture Management in Tajikistan. A […]
Family farmers’ organizations (FOs) in the Philippines celebrate the first year of the UN Decade of Family Farming (UNDFF) during the Knowledge Learning Market and Policy Engagement 2019 held in 13-14 November 2019 at Ang Bahay ng Alumni, UP, Quezon City, Philippines. With the theme “Celebrating the International Decade of Family Farming: Strengtheing the Role […]
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 […]
An international delegation participates in the 6th Marcha das Margaridas (Margaritas March), in which around 100,000 women took part last 14 August in Brasilia. Ms. Saraswati Subba, Chairperson of National Land Rights Forum – Nepal (NLRF) and her translator, Jagat Deuja, Executive Director of the Community Self Reliance Center (CSRC) represented the Asian Farmers’ Association […]
MANILA, Philippines – A Dumagat woman in Barangay Daraitan in Tanay, Rizal, was speaking before a group of visitors. Her blonde hair was neatly tied up. Her lips, red with lipstick. She said she didn’t look like a katutubo (tribe member). But she is, in her heart, through and through. Her name is Nila Grace […]
Our members under the Youth and Land Initiative share with us why access to land for rural youths needs to be secured in order to alleviate poverty and unemployment. By giving meaningful participation to rural youths in decision-making roles, change can happen at the local and national level. Video by ILC
