Kerala, India – Women in the Fishery Sector are afflicted by many challenges like unhygienic market conditions, apathy towards the sector in general and women in particular, cut-throat competition, and inability to keep their produce dry and fresh, etc. SEWA-Kerala has been lobbying on their behalf with government authorities and thanks to their relentless efforts, […]
Farmers in Bangladesh used to preserve and reproduce seeds. However, this is no longer the situation. Farmers are losing control of the seeds. Nowadays, more than 90% of vegetable and rice seeds are controlled and supplied by private companies. MTCP2 Bangladesh made efforts to regain the control of seeds for farmers by forming groups of […]
In Bangladesh, there are places where people rely on the production of dried fish for their livelihood. The biggest dried fish yards in the country are located in Nazirtek of Sadar upazila, Kutubjom and Sonadia at Maheshkhali upazila, Teknaf, Shamlapur, Sundaripara in Pekua upazila, St. Martin’s Island and Baro Ghop in Kutubdia upazila. However, the […]
Char Fasson Upazilla in Bangladesh is an area lagged behind in many socio-economic indicators. Among the major livelihood of the people in the area is fishing and farming. However, fishers and farmers face a lot of problems when it comes to their livelihood including lack of access to proper information related to the farming and […]
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 […]
AFA members and secretariat staff are in Europe together with the chairperson and vice-chairperson of the ASEAN Sectoral Working Group on Agricultural Cooperatives (ASWGAC) for a learning visit to France and Begium to learn from different agricultural cooperative models. The learning visit is co-organized by AFA partners CSA and AsiaDHRRA. Through the ASEAN Foundation, AFOSP-MTCP2 […]
