DOWNLOAD: Sustainable_Family_Farming_Agriculture_in_South_Asia_through_Partnerships South Asia, comprised of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, is home to about 1.8 billion people — nearly 25% of the world’s population.1 But with an area of 5.2 million square kilometers, or some 1% of the world’s area, South Asia is the most densely populated region in […]
DOWNLOAD: Making Public Procurement Programs Work for Asian Family Farmers Public procurement refers to the process through which governments or public agencies acquire goods and services to undertake its daily operations, and deliver basic services to its constituents. Governments buy, lease and/or secure goods and services through other means of exchange in order to implement […]
DOWNLOAD: Promoting the Rights and Livelihoods of Forest and Farm Producers in Asia Seeing the Forests and the Farms Together: Promoting the Rights and Livelihoods of Forest and Farm Producers in Asia, AFA Issue Paper, Volume 7, Number 2, August 2015 There is a very close relationship between forestry and farming. Both forests and farms […]
DOWNLOAD: Challenges and Opportunities in Promoting VGGT to Secure Tenure Rights of Family Farmers Ma Win of a small village in Myanmar is anxious. An officer of the Forest Department has asked her and co-villagers to move out of the village, based on a piece of paper saying that the 700-acre land where they were […]
A Viable Future: Attracting the Youth to Agriculture DOWNLOAD: A Viable Future: Attracting the Youth to Agriculture Youth is often the time when a person starts to dream of the future, think of the path to take and boldly and aggressively set his/her life in motion. In many rural villages, to be a farmer is […]
Asian Farmers and IYFF: What is it for us during the International Year of Family Farming? DOWNLOAD: Asian Farmers and IYFF: What is it for us during the International Year of Family Farming? Majority of the world’s family farmers are in Asia, and they are also the majority of the world’s poorest. Asia is also […]
Small-Scale Farmers’ Engagement with Private Enterprises: Towards Farmer-Owned or Farmer-Led Sustainable and Inclusive Arrangements DOWNLOAD: Small-Scale Farmers’ Engagement with Private Enterprises: Towards Farmer-Owned or Farmer-Led Sustainable and Inclusive “In Cambodia, Thida is happy. Her organization, Farmer and Nature Net (FNN), encouraged her to start raising organic pigs to sell to the market. A partner NGO, […]
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 […]
