Better food systems are critical to building a future with improved health, equality, and peace, with rich biodiversity and ecosystems, and with resilient and empowered people. Therefore, there must be a critical shift from a food security focus to food systems thinking: thinking about food, people, and the planet, that requires multi-level approaches with multi-stakeholders. […]
Pagbangon is On: 2021 KLMPE Video Contest on Building Back Better of Family Farmers in the midst of Pandemic ENTRIES Theme: “Building back better towards resilient, inclusive and sustainable rural development” MECHANICS 1. Post a two to three-minute video (of any approach/type; can be a vlog, TikTok video, music video, etc. preferably […]
Virtual Regional Consultation on Engaging with Academia and Research Institutions (ARIs) to Support Family Farmers and Food System Transformation During and Post COVID-19 Pandemic in Asia 8-9 December 2021 PROGRAMME OUTLINE WITH LINKS TO THE PRESENTATIONS AND RECORDINGS DAY 1: 8 December 2021 Time Zone: Bangkok Standard Time (GMT+7) WATCH DAY 1 RECORDING […]
Guided by its agenda to promote the secure tenurial rights of small scale women and men family farmers over land and natural resources, the Asian Farmers Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) has participated in an online session that promotes the importance of land rights in building back better and in transforming food systems. Last […]
Virtual Call Centres (VCCs) are a solution developed by farmers’ organizations in Bangladesh to enable farming operations to thrive despite restrictions from the COVID-19 pandemic. This video explains how the VCCs work. This video is produced by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, in collaboration with GAFSP and Sara Bangla Krishak Society […]
This story is written by the editorial staff of the EU-ASEAN Blue Book 2021 As the eldest daughter of a farmer, Ti Chia Pan grew up helping her parents grow bananas and vegetables in the village of Nanphalong, Temu, at the border between Myanmar and India. Her experience in the field gave her first-hand insight […]
The COVID-19 pandemic made citizens realize again the value of farmers producing local and healthy food, and governments the value of becoming more and more self-reliant by boosting local agricultural production. It has confirmed our advocacy for shorter and inclusive agri-food supply chains, with strong participation of farmers in the governance of these chains; and […]
This article is originally published by the FAO In the weeks following Bangladesh’s first recorded COVID-19 case in early March, the Government of Bangladesh initiated a countrywide lockdown to contain the virus’ outbreak. Vehicles carrying medicine, fuel and perishable items were exempt from the restrictions, but agricultural supply chains were heavily disrupted. The country’s farmers, […]
