The Institute for Motivating Self-Employment (IMSE), a farmers’ organization in West Bengal, is carrying out two major campaigns in support of farmers to enable them to keep the land they till and to use sustainable agriculture practices to make small-scale farming viable while protecting the environment. Village-level awareness camps were conducted to demonstrate the benefits […]
Women farmers from South Asia as well as development partners gather in Bhubaneswar, India on 5-7 September 2018 for a regional expert consultation on “Women’s Empowerment for Agriculture Development in South Asia: enabling polices”. The event is jointly organized by the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA), SAARC Agriculture Centre (SAC), Action Aid […]
Farmers and farmer representatives from 11 states of India came to Gujarat for a 3-day National Farmers Forum on 5-7 July 2018. The National Farmers Forum is a partnership of Farmer Organizations across 15 States of India ceaselessly working towards the betterment of small and marginal farmers. Watch this video to see the highlights of […]
Vientiane Province, Laos – As rice is the main crop in Laos, Lao farmers have a long history of growing rice using different techniques. In the lowland areas where farmers plant on paddy fields, the common technique is rice transplanting. Meanwhile, in the upland areas, farmers grow rice on the hills through direct-seeding, but since […]
Forty-eight-year-old Bhanumoti Das lives with her husband Golok Das and their two sons. She hails from a very poor family and her husband was addicted to alcohol. It became increasingly difficult for Bhanumoti to live with her alcoholic husband who keeps wasting all their hard-earned money on liquor. Her sons had already separated, so with […]
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“The idea of setting up the Rural Distribution Network is to internally rotate the scarce funds of the rural producers in a way that fetches maximum benefit and brings about positive changes in their lives and to provide multi-user facilities, reduce incidental expenses, and build-up an integrated value chain in order to enhance the […]
When the Agriculture and Farmer Federation of Myanmar (AFFM) was established in 2011, there were no women members elected handle leadership roles in the organization. Throughout the years, there were still no women members elected in the AFFM Central Committee and in the Central Executive Committee. However, recognizing the importance and the need to involve […]
