Cresente Paez and Jojo Ebron of the Cooperative Development Program of AFA attend the first meeting of the consortium of partners organized by Agricooph Federation to discuss the partners’ roles on the strengthening of agri cooperatives in Mindanao and explore a partnership engagement with the EU and GIZ on 8 August 2019. This meeting was […]
The MTCP2 Supervision and Implementation Support (SIS) Mission team India interacted with SEWA’s farmers group–Swashrayi Mahila Khedut Mandal–at Aravali District, Gujarat on 17 July 2019. Their visit to SEWA’s RUDI Processing Center enabled them to gain an in-depth understanding of RUDI, SEWA’s Agri-Commodity Value Chain which is owned and managed by farmers. The SIS Mission team […]
AFA member NADF supports the rehabilitation of pastures and forestry in Tajikistan through its participation in the Zarafshon Basin Project, a project supported by the European Union (EU) and in cooperation with WHH (Welthungerhilfe) and Landell Mills. These partners organized a training on the “Rehabilitation of native pasture grasses by collecting and broadcasting” in the […]
Forty participants from six member countries of the South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)–Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Maldives, Sri Lanka–comprising country focal persons experts from their ministries of agriculture and cooperatives, leaders of farmers organizations implementing the Medium Term Cooperation Phase 2 (MTCP2), a capacity building program for Farmers Organizations supported by the International […]
BANGKOK, Thailand–The 2019 Mekong Knowledge and Learning Fair, held in Bangkok, Thailand on 10-12 July 2019, attracted nearly 200 participants consisting of high level officials from the government of countries within the Mekong region and the Philippines, representatives from IFAD country offices, IFAD grants / supported projects, private sector, and farmers’ organizations (FOs) including the […]
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 […]
The MTCP2 Supervision and Implementation Support (SIS) mission team visited Vietnam Farmers Union and its partner FOs in July 2019 to get updates on their activities conducted with support from MTCP2 Programme. Private enterprises such as Han Vinh Coffee supports farmers. Around 110 out of 1,200 coffee suppliers are supported by AFOSP-MTCP2. Aside from purchasing […]
Bahadur Singh Kandari and his family live in Deghat village in Almora District at an altitude of 1,200 meters. He used to take up private job assignments but due to lack of employment opportunities, he got intensively involved in agriculture in 2005. He has been involved in agriculture for a decade now. He leased a […]
