Yen Bai, Vietnam – Dao Thinh commune is in the lowland of Tran Yen district, Yen Bai province, Vietnam. Previously, farmers in the area grew cassava and sticky rice in the forest. In 1992, the farmers in Dao Thinh started to grow cinnamon trees, which takes 7-10 years before harvesting. People eventually realized the other […]
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The Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development held its 37th Executive Committee Meeting on 27 May 2018 at Ambassador Hotel, Bangkok Thailand. The member organizations present in the meeting are: API, Ainoukai, NLFF, CTCF, VNFU, FWN, FNN, LFN, NAMAC, TWADA, TDFA, AFFM, UWUA, NADF, SEWA, PAKISAMA, and KKM. View more photos of the AFA […]
Ha Tinh, Vietnam — In the cooperation framework between Viet Nam Farmers’ Union (VNFU) and International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Ha Tinh provincial Farmers’ Union and provincial IFAD signed the Agreement “Establishing partnership of cooperation on the implementation of activities under the design of provincial IFAD project” (Sustainable Rural Development for the Poor Project in […]
Yogyakarta, Indonesia – Around 50 participants composed of farmer leaders, NIA secretariat staff, Knowledge Management (KM) officers, and Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) officers from Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam, Philippines, and Thailand, representatives from ASEAN Foundation and AgriCord as well as the regional secretariat from the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) and […]
On June 8, 2017, the Vietnam Farmers’ Union (VNFU) in association with the Ministry of Planning and Investment, and IFAD Vietnam held a workshop on reviewing the Draft of a new Decree on organization and operation of cooperative groups as the replacement for the Decree No. 151/2007/N?-CP dated October 10, 2007. The workshop was coordinated […]
Discovering the Fortune in Cinnamon by Vietnam Farmers’ Union (VNFU), Vietnam Growing cinnamon in Vietnam’s forests Vietnam has 16,247,492 hectares of agri-forest areas, with a forest cover of 42 percent. Of these, 5.5 million hectares (ha) are protection forests, 8.5 million are production forests and 2.2 million are lands without forests. Income from forestry production […]
