A letter of support addressed to the WTO negotiators of member countries belonging to the G33, ACP, and LDC blocs was sent in the last week of June by AFA and AsiaDHRRA. The letter supported the groups’ commitment to call for adequate treatment of special products and special safeguard mechanisms. “Do not sign to a […]
June 30, 2006 Warm greetings of Peace! We, the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA), an alliance of nine million farmers from eight countries in Asia, together with our support group, the Asian Partnership for the Development of Human Resources in Rural Asia (AsiaDHRRA), a network of 11 non-government organizations in ten Asian […]
May 30, 2006 Last week, two calamities struck the villages in two Southeast Asian countries. In Thailand, a great flood occured in the northern part, affecting many farmers, some of whom are members of Sor Kor Por, an AFA member. In Yogyakarta, Indonesia, a 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck, killing 6,200 people, injuring and displacing a […]
[Paper developed by the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) and presented by Mr. Long Dimanche, Secretary of Farmer and Nature Net, an AFA member in Cambodia, during the “Sub-Regional Seminar on Enhancing Capacities of NGOs and Farmers’ Groups to Link Farmers to Marketsâ€, May 9-12, Bali, Indonesia, organized by VECO-Indonesia.]
We, leaders and members belonging to the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA), gathered here at Phnom Penh, Cambodia for a “Forum on WTO and ASEAN: Asian Farmers’ Perspectives in Engaging Intergovernmental Bodiesâ€, this 11th of April 2006, on the occasion of AFA’s Strategic Planning and Second General Assembly , declare the following:
Click here for the Chinese translation We, leaders and members belonging to the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA), gathered here at Phnom Penh, Cambodia for a “Forum on WTO and ASEAN: Asian Farmers’ Perspectives in Engaging Intergovernmental Bodiesâ€, this 11th of April 2006, on the occasion of AFA’s Strategic Planning and General […]
WTO Kills Farmers: Beyond the Hong Kong Ministerial DOWNLOAD: WTO Kills Farmers Beyond the Hong Kong Ministerial The World Trade Organization (WTO) hailed the recent Hong Kong Sixth Ministerial Meeting last December 2005 as a positive movement towards the conclusion of the Doha Development Round. The round was supposedly geared towards ensuring that trade contributes […]
The sixth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization is scheduled in December 2005, in Hongkong. Agriculture, through the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) undertaking, is still top of the agenda. With Asian farmers bearing the brunt of lopsided global agricultural trade policies, this sector should be well-informed about developments on this issue and should be […]
