Critical Issues on the Growing Market Power of Transnational Agribusinesses AFA Issue Paper, Volume 2 Number 2, September 2009 DOWNLOAD: Critical Issues on the Growing Market Power of Transnational Agribusinesses WHAT IS MEANT BY AGRIBUSINESS? Agribusiness, as used in this paper, refers to very big corporations that produce, process trade, and market agricultural food products […]
(Final Draft, August 6, 2009) We, representatives from civil society organizations of women and men migrant workers from the formal, informal and labor sectors, small-scale farmers, fishers, indigenous peoples, agricultural workers, consumers, academe and non-government organizations from the ASEAN region, gathered at the “Regional Conference on the Impact of Financial and Economic Crisis on Vulnerable […]
Regional Conference on the Impact of Financial Crisis on Vulnerable Sectors: Civil Society Voices and ASEAN July 28-29 2009, Jakarta (Final Draft) Action Plans which participants agreed to work on together: I. Agricultural Sector 1. Priority Policy Agenda 1. Create and strengthen mechanisms for dialogue and consultation between CSOs and government, at the national and […]
The Global Financial Crisis: What it is and How it Affects Small-Scale Men and Women Farmers in the ASEAN Region AFA Issue Paper, Volume 2 Number 1, August 2009 DOWNLOAD: The Global Financial Crisis: What it is and How it Affects Small-Scale Men and Women Farmers in the ASEAN Region This issue paper is about […]
Dear fellow land rights advocates in Timor Leste, Our organization, Asian Farmers’ Association or AFA, supports your call for the implementation of the Minimum Requirements to ensure meaningful public participation in developing your country’s Land Law. AFA, a regional alliance of nine national farmers’ organizations in eight Asian countries, believes that security of land tenure […]
PAKISAMA* The Higaonons are indigenous people of southern Philippines. Their ancestral land stretches across the valley of Sayawan and Palaopao mountains in Bukidnon province. But people who did not belong to their community obtained the legal ownership of the land. In the 1930s, there were forcibly evicted from their balaang yuta(holy land). They returned as […]
(This case study appeared in the Newsletter of Hurights Osaka.) by Aliansi Petani Indonesia* The peasants are the backbone of the agrarian sector in Indonesia. They have that status since the colonial period till the present. And yet since colonial period, they have largely been deprived of freedom – freedom from oppression and poverty. While […]
The participants of the Global Food Sufficiency Videoconference*, which took place in Manila (Philippines), Dakar (Senegal), Brasilia (Brazil), Washington (USA) and Brussels (Europe) on 29. April 2009, suggest working closely together towards: 1. Influencing agriculture policies in our regions (Common Agriculture and Rural Development Policy in the EU, US Farm Bill, etc.) so that farm […]
