Guidebook on Commercialization of Farmer-led EnterprisesA practical guide for farmers, agripreneurs, and development practitioners
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1. The Asia-Pacific Farmers Program (APFP) and the Support to Strengthening FOs for Asia (FO4A) build on the previous program, the Medium-Term Cooperation Program (MTCP2), and the ASEAN Farmers Organization Support Program (AFOSP), primarily strengthening the policy engagement of FO networks. While improvement in policy engagement opened window of opportunities to improve livelihood […]
FEAT TO RISEFarmers Enterprise Assessment Tool Towards Resilient, Inclusive, and Sustainable EnterpriseA User’s ManualDeveloped by the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) Background What is FEAT to RISE? The Farmers’ Enterprise Assessment Tool towards Resilient, Inclusive and Sustainable Enterprise (FEAT to RISE, from here on referred to as FEAT for ease of reading in the […]
Large-scale land acquisitions for carbon offsetting: Green grabbing or just transition? Analytical report on land-based offset projects The Land Matrix Initiative and the scope of this report The Land Matrix Initiative (LMI) is a partnership between the Centre de coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD), Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) at the University […]
Youth in Agriculture: Building Structure, Starting Enterprises, Leading ChangeStrategic Insights, Experiences, and Actionable Recommendations This guide was developed based on the experiences of AFA’s project, Empowering Women and Youth through Inclusive Cooperatives and Agricultural Value Chains toward Peace and Development in Mindanao, and the institutional knowledge of AFA, PAKISAMA, and AGRICOOPh. The project is part […]
“I have come here today not just to speak, but to dream. These three days will teach us how youth can return to agriculture in their own way—how they can modernize it without abandoning its values.” – Meenaben, Youth Farmer from Gujarat The Self-Employed Women’s Associa on (SEWA), with over 3.2 million women workers across […]
The Farmers’ Organizations Programmes (FO4) were launched in 2019, after two decades of dedicated support to farmers’ organizations through various programmes funded by the European Union (EU), the Swiss and French development agencies. The FO4 programmes are a series of five interconnected initiatives that have reached over 70 million smallholder farmers around the world – […]
Although land-intensive investment projects have shaped economies and societies for centuries in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), renewed global attention surfaced in the 2000s due to surges in investments in agriculture. Placing even more pressure on land in these regions over the last two decades, global climate change mitigation efforts have seen a deluge of […]
