First Bangladesh Young Farmers Camp and Agrilympics (YFCA)6-9 July 2025Dhaka, BangladeshOrganized by the COAST Foundation Over 150 young farmers and agri-entrepreneurs from more than 25 districts of Bangladesh gathered for learning, dialogue, and action at the First Bangladesh Young Farmers Camp and Agrilympics (YFCA) held in Dhaka, Bangladesh from 6-9 July 2025. The four-day young farmers […]
Thankurgaon, Bangladesh – In Pirganj upazila, Thakurgaon district, Bangladesh, farming has long been a way of life, but farmers have always been burdened by financial challenges and unfair market systems. For years, smallholder farmers have depended on local moneylenders to finance their crops, often at exorbitant interest rates. As a result, most of their profits from […]
Dinajpur, Bangladesh – In the northern district of Dinajpur, Bangladesh, farming is more than a livelihood — it is a way of life. But for many smallholder farmers, the journey from planting to harvest has long been a struggle marked by financial hardship. Most farmers are forced to take high-interest loans from moneylenders just to begin […]
The $250,000 World Food Prize, considered by many the Nobel Prize of food and agriculture, was awarded today to an Indian scientist credited with launching a "blue revolution" (a rapid increase in fish production) in the developing world.
Modadugu Gupta has spent 30 years creating a cheap and ecologically sustainable system of small-scale fish-farming using abandoned ditches and seasonally flooded fields and water holes smaller than the average swimming pool.
We are small-scale women, men, and young family farmers from 13 organizations in 9 countries, members and partners of the Asian Farmers Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA), who have participated in the survey, focus group discussions, and experience sharing on digital agriculture. Here we discussed the situation, challenges, and recommendations on digital agriculture. In […]
In 2022, AFA partnered with the Global Forum on Agricultural Research and Innovation (GFAR) and Agricultural Research Associations (APAARI) in the Collective Action on Inclusive Digital Transformation in Agriculture that aims at empowering small-scale producers to co-develop good practices and negotiate business models that work for them, and at making all other actors in the Digital Agriculture value […]
AFA member Aliansi Petani Indonesia (API) (Indonesia), Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) (India) and partners COAST Foundation (Bangladesh), Pambansang Katipunan ng mga Samahan sa Kanayunan (PKSK) (Philippines), Federation of Community Forestry Users Nepal (FECOFUN) (Nepal), and Kastom Garden Association (Solomon Islands) embarked on a community radio project initiated by the FAO and AMARC Asia-Pacific through […]
In Bangladesh, the National Family Farmers Forum and Partners Consultation on Food System Transition and Climate Resiliency was conducted on 8 August 2023 and attended by farmers’ organizations’ representatives and the SAARC Agriculture Center.
