By Ibrahima Coulibaly, President of the Network of Farmers’ Organizations and Smallholder Farmers in West Africa (ROPPA); Alberta Guerra, Senior Policy Analyst at ActionAid USA; and Esther Penunia, Secretary-General of the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) This article is originally posted on gafspfund.org: https://www.gafspfund.org/news/cultivating-small-scale-farming-approach-improve-food-security Across the world, between 720 and 811 million […]
Strong water users’ associations are instrumental in sustaining reforms and improvement in the country’s water sector. To address the interrelated challenges of agriculture, water, food insecurity, and poverty in Tajikistan, the Public Employment for Sustainable Agriculture and Water Resources Management Project (PAMP II) was implemented from 2013 to 2020 with support from the Global Agriculture […]
In 2019, the Agriculture for Nutrition Project (AFN) provided funding support to the Lao Farmer Network (LFN) to pilot the production and processing of soybean in two villages of Nonghet district, Xiengkhouang province, Laos. The small project, “Piloting soybean production and processing to improve nutrition in Nonghet district”, was implemented from April 2019 to March […]
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 post is originally published by ActionAid This video illustrates how GAFSP 2.0 works and how it can support small-scale food producers to develop their own development solutions. One of the big innovations is a dedicated funding track for producer’s organizations to apply in partnership with one of the GAFSP Supervising Entities. Watch this video […]
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 post is originally published by ActionAid. Here’s what agricultural development looks like when it’s done by and for farmers. The Missing Middle Initiative is an innovative program that flips top-down approaches to agricultural development in the Global South. Family farmers and farmers’ organizations manage their own projects from start to finish and can access […]
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, […]
