Bangkok, 8 February 2007 The undersigned civil society movements and organisations from ASEAN and Europe wish to express their strong concerns about the proposed EU-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement (FTA) slated to be concluded within the next two years.
Submitted by; Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) Asian Partnership for the Development of Human Resources in Rural Asia (AsiaDHRRA) External Consultant: Elenita C. Daño Link to the draft World Development Report 2008
31st October – 1st November 2006 SorKorPor conducted The 3rd General Assembly; Prime Minister General Surayut Julanon attended the meeting and received 7 solutions of SorZorPor on solving farmers’ problems and request on the cooperation of SorKorPor to work with government and Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives. 29th October – 4th November 2006 The representatives […]
Education Ainokai held its bi-annual 10-day farming course in March and in August, practical farming course in April to November (every Saturday), and forest management seminar in October and in December.
Jan., 2006??????????????????? TWADA member participated in a workshop held in the Council of Aagriculture on consolidate(unifying) on the packaging of the superior quality products for export purpose.
Adapted from the video documentary version of the book Land reclaiming is an inseparable part of the agrarian reform movement in Indonesia that the state has regarded an illegal act until now. It arose because of the failure of agrarian reform implementation in the country since it became independent. Most often, the peasants who reclaim […]
History The issue over transgenic seeds stems from farmers confusion as to why they had to buy the corn seeds every time they want to plant corn. Plants were created by God and no man should not claim them as his/hers. The high cost of the seeds and the high cost of planting adds to […]
Hira Jhamtani and Dey Patria Some Indonesian farmers were recently prosecuted at the behest of a seed marketing company for breeding their own seeds instead of purchasing them from the company. Although the cases did not involve genetically modified seeds or seed multinationals, they have some disturbing implications. IN early 2005, without too much media […]
