The Asian Farmers’ Association (AFA) facilitated the visit of the Department of Agricultural Marketing and Cooperatives of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forests of Bhutan to successful cooperatives in the Philippines as well as government agencies concerned with cooperatives on 24-30 November 2019. During the first day of the learning visit, the 12-member delegation visited […]
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 […]
Bangkok, Thailand – The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA), with support from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), jointly conducted a training workshop on the legal and policy aspects of contract farming on 28-30 October 2019 in Bangkok, Thailand. The […]
Rajasthan, India – The International Land Coalition (ILC) Asia, in which the Asian Farmers’ Association (AFA) is a member, conducted its annual regional land forum and regional assembly on 30 September to 4 October 2019 in Udaipur, Rajasthan, India. Among the matters discussed are the land forum for the national land issues in India, cross-cutting […]
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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 […]
AFA members PAKISAMA, LFN, UWUA, NAMAC, and AFFM with AFA Secretary General Esther Penunia Banzuela and AFA staff Lorraine Ablan attend the Asia-Pacific Forestry Week 2019 held on 17-21 June 2019 in Incheon, South Korea. Watch the APFW lightning session:
