AFA Secretary General Esther Penunia and Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) – Civil Society Organization (CSO) Asia representative and Technical Adviser Raul Socrates Banzuela went to Timor Leste in October 2018 to get updates about the implementation of Sustainable Agriculture Productivity Improvement Project (SAPIP) which is funded by GAFSP. The GAFSP – CSO Mission […]
A five-member team from the Asian Farmers’ Association (AFA) carried out a Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) – Civil Society Organization (CSO) country visit to Bhutan on 15-23 September 2019. The mission team, consisting of AFA Secretary-General Esther Penunia, Asia Pacific Farmers’ Program Coordinator Lany Rebagay, AFA Cooperative Development Manager Jojo Ebron, AFA […]
The Government of Mongolia, supported by the World Bank and GAFSP, implemented the Livestock and Agricultural Marketing Project (LAMP) to improve rural livelihoods and food secutiry in 15 distritcs in 5 provinces, through enhanced productivity, market access and diversification in livestock-based production systems. Read more
DOWNLOAD ENGLISH VERSION: Is-GAFSP-reaching-small-scale-food-producers-in-Nepal_English DOWNLOAD NEPALI VERSION: Is-GAFSP-reaching-small-scale-food-producers-in-Nepal_Nepali Introduction: The GAFSP supported AFSP in Nepal Despite progress being made in recent decades to reduce poverty in Nepal, World Bank figures show that 25.2 percent of the population was still living below the national poverty line in 2010.1 The proportion of undernourished people decreased from 22.8 […]
REPORT: Support to GAFSP CSO Asia (January – August 8, 2017) Introduction and Background Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) such as farmer organizations (FOs), Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), outreach groups, and universities have varying roles in country-led strategic planning that GAFSP aims to support. Effective empowerment of farmers in country program implementation through producer organizations, for example, […]
REPORT: Support to GAFSP CSO Asia (August – December 2017) Introduction and Background The GAFSP Steering Committee, the Program’s decision-making body, has allocated three seats to Civil Society Organizations (CSOs): a seat to represent the voice of CSOs in African developing countries, a seat to represent the voice of CSOs in Asian developing countries, and […]
The Global Fund for Agriculture (also referred to as the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program or GAFSP) was established in April 2010 after the 2007-2008 global food crisis. Aid to small-scale agriculture had been steadily decreasing for decades despite the fact that there are over 500 million small-scale food producers and that growth in […]
Mongolia, a vast country of 1.56 million square kilometers, is home to 15 times more livestock than people. It has over 2.7 million human population and 43 million livestock as of 2010. The transformation of Mongolia after the collapse of the Soviet Union from collective socialism to a market economy disrupted urban and rural livelihoods, […]
