The Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) participated in the just concluded 3rd Asia Pacific Forestry Week 2016, held last February 22-26 at Clark Freeport Zone, Philippines, coinciding with the 26th session of the Asia Pacific Forestry Commission of The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). AFA joined a consortium composed […]
DOWNLOAD: Promoting the Rights and Livelihoods of Forest and Farm Producers in Asia Seeing the Forests and the Farms Together: Promoting the Rights and Livelihoods of Forest and Farm Producers in Asia, AFA Issue Paper, Volume 7, Number 2, August 2015 There is a very close relationship between forestry and farming. Both forests and farms […]
Challenges and Opportunities for forest user organizations in forest resource management and sustainable forest based livelihoods Presentation by Reymondo A. Caraan Senior Program Officer, Securing Community Forestry RECOFTC, The Center for People and Forests August 2-3, 2015, Yangon, Myanmar Mr. Reymondo Caraan (RECOFTC) gave an overview on how to get more rights awarded to forest […]
The Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development will hold the event “Regional Sharing Workshop Building our Agenda for Farmers in Forested Landscapes” on August 2-3, 2015 in Yangon, Myanmar. The event will be hosted by its member, the Agriculture and Farmer Federation Myanmar (AFFM) with support from the FAO-Forest and Farm Facility (FFF). There […]
A project supported by the Forest and Farm Facility of the UN-FAO Strengthening engagement of Asian small scale women and men forests and farm producers in global and regional processes The project aims to consolidate the voices of its members in 8 countries who are living in forested landscapes and thereby strengthening AFA’s legitimacy, accountability, […]
Committee on Food Security (CFS) Side event on Forests and Family Farming for food Security and Nutrition (16 October 2014, Rome) AFA co-organized a side event with FAO Forestry Department and Forest and Farm Facility together with the Indigenous Partnership for Agro-biodiversity and Food Sovereignty. AFA was represented by Mr. Lyam Bahadur Darjee, a farmer […]
