AFA Coordinator for Young Farmers’ Agenda and UNDFF Lanz Espacio talked about family farming in the Philippines and the Asian Farmers’ Association’s work within UN Decade of Family Farming at Radyo Katipunan 87.9. Watch the video below.
Family farmers’ organizations (FOs) in the Philippines celebrate the first year of the UN Decade of Family Farming (UNDFF) during the Knowledge Learning Market and Policy Engagement 2019 held in 13-14 November 2019 at Ang Bahay ng Alumni, UP, Quezon City, Philippines. With the theme “Celebrating the International Decade of Family Farming: Strengtheing the Role […]
The Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) participated in the Rural Development and Food Security Forum 2019 held at the Asian Development Bank Headquarters in Mandaluyong City, Philippines on 28-30 October 2019. During the farmers roundtable discussion, smallholder farmers from the Philippines, Nepal, and Indonesia and agriculture companies and development partners shared about […]
Around 170 participants including members of various cooperatives and cooperative consortiums and federations in the Philippines, representatives from concerned government agencies, and development partners convened at the Century Park Hotel in Manila, Philippines for the first ever National Agricultural Cooperatives Knowledge & Learning, Innovation and Trade Expo (AgriCoops – KITE) on 22-25 October 2019. This […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Expected growth in the agricultural sector has highlighted the need for cooperatives to step into the gap when the government and banks fail to supply credit. Asian Farmers’ Association (AFA) Cooperative Development Program Director Cresente C. Paez noted that some savings and credit cooperatives are starting to expand their services to farmers. Mr. Paez said […]
