Adaptation Fund for Smallholder Agriculture: Enabling Developing Countries to Survive Climate Change AFA Issue Paper, Volume 3, Number 2, December 2011 DOWNLOAD: Adaptation Fund for Smallholder Agriculture: Enabling Developing Countries to Survive Climate Change Sumalee’s tears welled up as she watched the flood wash away the crops that she had been carefully tending only a […]
Smallholder Agriculture and Food Systems: Responding to the Challenge of Food Price Volatility AFA Issue Paper, Volume 3, Number 1, November 2011 DOWNLOAD: Smallholder Agriculture and Food Systems: Responding to the Challenge of Food Price Volatility In 2008, Ka Lita, a woman rice farmer in the Philippines, stood in a long line to buy rice […]
International Climate Change Negotiations: Ensuring Support for Adaptation and Mitigation Measures in Smallholder Agriculture AFA Issue paper, Volume 2 Number 4, December 2009 DOWNLOAD: International Climate Change Negotiations: Ensuring Support for Adaptation and Mitigation Measures in Smallholder Agriculture In December 2009, women in Sayphusi, a village in the province of Attapeu in Laos, were busy […]
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 […]
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 […]
Climate Change: Causes, Impacts and Possible Responses in Asian Agriculture AFA Issue Paper, Volume 1, Number 1, October 2008 DOWNLOAD: Climate Change: Causes, Impacts and Possible Responses in Asian Agriculture
Farmers in ASEAN member-countries such as Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, and Thailand, can now understand more about ASEAN issues related to farmers in the region through an issue paper that has been translated into local languages. The issue paper entitled “Understanding the ASEAN Charter and the ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint”, published by AFA and AsiaDHRRA, […]
AFA and AsiaDHRRA Issue Paper. Vol. 3, No. 1. Quezon City, Philippines, February 2008. The ASEAN Charter and the ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint are two important documents that the 40-year old ASEAN recently signed in order to advance it vision of a “sharing and caring community”. Because majority of the people of Southeast Asia are […]
