JAKARTA, INDONESIA – The Advocacy Alliance for Smallholders Plantation Justice which include farmers organizations in Indonesia namely Indonesia Peasant Alliance (API), Indonesia Farmer Union (SPI), Indonesia Farmer and Fisheries Community Union (WAMTI) and IPPHTI, in cooperation with National CSOs and NGOs namely Palm Oil Farmer union (SPKS), Sawit Wach, Indonesia Human Right Committee for Social […]
Oun Sophal is the Chairperson of the BOD of Ratanak Polrath Samaki Agricultural Cooperative in Khachey Khanlech village, Damnak Sokrom commune, Doun Toung district, Kampot province, Cambodia. He has been promoting organic agriculture, livestock, saving and community business among the members. With support from Farmer and Nature Net under the AFOSP-MTCP2 program, the cooperative was […]
HANOI, VIETNAM – Vietnam Farmers Union (VNFU) hosted a high level study visit on Land Use with a six-person delegation from Nepal headed by Mr. Krishna Prasad Devkota, Secretary of the Ministry of Land Reform and Management. The Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Mr. Nguyen Linh Ngoc received the delegation on behalf of […]
DOWNLOAD: Challenges and Opportunities in Promoting VGGT to Secure Tenure Rights of Family Farmers Ma Win of a small village in Myanmar is anxious. An officer of the Forest Department has asked her and co-villagers to move out of the village, based on a piece of paper saying that the 700-acre land where they were […]
Bangkok, Thailand, 15 Oct 2014 – This year’s World Food Day (16 October) is celebrated across Asia and the Pacific with increasing optimism that the region could achieve the Millennium Development Goal on reducing hunger by 2015. This was among the key messages delivered on the eve of World Food Day at a regional event in […]
In the Philippines, PAKISAMA and AFA have partnered with the government, especially the DA and the DAR in drumbeating the issues concerning farming families and small-scale food producers. MANILA, Philippines—To emphasize the growing importance of family farming in Philippine agriculture, the government is now highlighting family farms as models of successful farming rather than large […]
As the world commemorates World Food Day, small scale farmers around the world continue their centuries old tradition of developing and sharing seeds. In Indonesia, farmers belong to Aliansi Petani Indonesia plant and observe rice seeds they received from Japanese farmers belonging to Ainoukai. Both are members of the Asian Farmers Association (AFA). These seed […]
Land Grabs or Large Scale Land Investments? Protecting Farmers’ Rights to Land AFA Issue Paper, Volume 4, Number 1, March 2012 DOWNLOAD: Land Grabs or Large Scale Land Investments? Protecting Farmers’ Rights to Land WHAT IS LAND GRABBING? WHAT ARE LARGE-SCALE LAND INVESTMENTS? ARE THEY THE SAME? “Large scale land investments” and “land grabbing” are […]
