The National Land Rights Forum (NLRF) Nepal advocates for the land rights of landless and smallholder peasants. Recognizing that women bear most agricultural responsibilities while land ownership remains predominantly with men, NLRF integrated women’s land rights and Joint Land Ownership (JLO) into its campaigns. The initiative addresses key issues such as the lack of inheritance […]
Translating UNFSS commitments into actions: Focus on the Coalition for Transforming Food Systems through Agroecology 6 October 2022 | 1:30 – 2:30 pm Bangkok time (GMt+7) Physical: Hotel Millennium Hilton, Bangkok, Thailand Online: Zoom Food systems account for a third of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, is a leading cause of biodiversity loss, depletion and […]
The COVID-19 pandemic brought significant challenges to smallholder farmers. Since 2020, they have faced declining demand from domestic markets, complete loss of market access during lockdowns, limited public transportation, rising transport costs, and increasing prices of production inputs. As a result, many farmers were forced to let their fresh produce go to waste—sometimes even using […]
REGISTER Organized by the Forest and Farm Facility in collaboration with the Vietnam Farmer’s Union (VNFU) in the context of the UN Decade of Family Farming. Climate risks that negatively impact nature and people will further limit the services natural systems provide to society, and could reduce access to food, energy, healthcare, water and international trade. Building climate […]
Inclusive cooperatives and associations have a crucial role in overcoming many of the obstacles faced by women farmers in Asia. Watch the video to see how women-led cooperatives and enterprises supported the livelihoods of women farmers.
Women farmers continue to be at a disadvantage position with limited access to resources, financial services, and government subsidies, among other things. Aside from farm work, women take care of their children and the elderly. Thus, the multiple crises such as the pandemic, extreme weather events, and increase in agri input prices due to the […]
An organized cooperative can enable women to access government services and support. The women farmers from the indigenous groups and “so-called”, lower caste, in Kailali District in Nepal have been discriminated against for a long time. They were unable to access support because they live on government lands with no land certificates. They set up the Kalika […]
BANGKOK, THAILAND – On July 5, 2022, thirty-seven participants, members, and partners of the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) and Southeast Asia Regional Initiatives on Community Empowerment (SEARICE), from 13 Asian countries, gathered in Bangkok, Thailand for a three-day workshop, with the theme “Transforming Asia’s Food Systems Through Rights Based Solutions: Capacity […]
