(Last Sept 6, an forum entitled “the Civil Society Roadmap to Address the Food Security, Agriculture and Climate Crises”, was held , as a side event during the 2nd Global Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change, in Hanoi, Vietnam. The event was organized by AFA, Third World Network, Center for Sustainable Rural Development […]
Proceedings of Regional Consultation on AR4D (Sep 10-11, 2012, Bangkok, Thailand) Documentation of the 1.5 day consultation on AR4D agenda, attended by around 30 participants from AFA member organizations, APAARI and GFAR officials. The results of the consultation serve as AFA’s inputs to events involving AR4D issues, particularly the GCARD 2012 discussions. It is also the […]
AFA in cooperation with ADRA-Mongolia and the National Association of Mongolian Agriculture Cooperative (NAMAC) conducted a training workshop on Constructive Engagement and Policy Advocacy in UlaanBaatar, Mongolia on August 28-30, 2012. It was participated by agricultural cooperatives, herders group and NGOs. The training was intended to build the capacity of civil society participant particularly the […]
Today, there is a growing realization and commitment of the global community to achieve more sustainable and broad-based agricultural growth by addressing gender-related issues in agriculture through national, regional and global initiatives and partnerships. The Road Map of the Global Conference on Agricultural Research and Development (GCARD) too has called for a radical reorientation of […]
Land Grabs or Large Scale Land Investments? Protecting Farmers’ Rights to Land AFA Issue Paper, Volume 4, Number 1, March 2012 DOWNLOAD: Land Grabs or Large Scale Land Investments? Protecting Farmers’ Rights to Land WHAT IS LAND GRABBING? WHAT ARE LARGE-SCALE LAND INVESTMENTS? ARE THEY THE SAME? “Large scale land investments” and “land grabbing” are […]
On the occasion of the fifty-sixth session of the Commission on the Status of Women taking place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from Monday, 27 February to Friday, 9 March 2012, AFA is re-posting this article that first appeared in the special issue of World Rural Forum’s New Earth in celebration of […]
The following was read by Ms. Rachel Kalaba, a representativeof young farmers in Zambia, during IFAD Governing Council meeting on February 22, 2012. Synthesis of Deliberations of the Fourth Global Meeting of the Farmers’ Forum in Conjunction with the 35th Session of IFAD’s Governing Council Rome, 20-21 February 2012 1. We the participants in the […]
Opening Statement Farmers’ Forum 2012 Asian Farmers’ Association (AFA) February 20, 2012 Good morning to everyone! In behalf of the Asian Farmers Association, we greet you all a belated happy lunar new year of the Water Dragon! Since we last met in 2010, we have made some victories. First, the UN has declared 2014 as […]
