Dear Chairman Seo, officers and members of KAFF,Warm greetings to everyone! We congratulate the officers of KAFF for organizing the tenth National Advanced Farmers’ Meeting. We cheer with the thousands of KAFF members and their families who are gathered here together for days of togetherness, fun and laughter, solidarity and also exchange of learning.
PRESS RELEASE Taiping, Malaysia June 23, 2006 Nine million small farmers and producers from ten countries in Asia call on governments of developing agricultural countries to ensure that “pro-small farmer” rules will be agreed in the current WTO negotiations in Geneva as well as in bilateral agreements currently forged by their governments with the United […]
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 […]
