By Karen Hansen-KuhnYang Saing Koma, (CEDAC/FNN); Tony Santos, PAKISAMA; Ika Krshnayanti, API Published October 14, 2011 Rising food prices, climate change and food riots have put agriculture high on the international agenda. Too much of the current policy debate focuses narrowly on increasing the volume of food, and assumes that industrial agriculture and biotechnology are […]
Excerpt from the Strategy Paper: “The past nine years, 2002-2010, have seen us struggling to take root and make ourselves known and heard at the international, regional, and national levels as a regional alliance of small scale women and men farmers’ organizations (FOs) in Asia. Slowly but surely, our efforts are paying off. Our alliance, […]
Excerpt from the Brochure: “We are a regional alliance of national federations and organizations of small scale women and men farmers and producers. We were established in 2002 after a series of farmers’ exchange visits (FEVs) organized by our strategic NGO partner, AsiaDHRRA (Asian Partnership for the Development of Human Resources in Rural Asia). In […]
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 […]
Farmers’ Voices, Farmers’ Choices: AFA Regional Consultations on Food Sovereignty, Climate Change, and Marketing October 4-10, 2009 Bangkok, Thailand Click here to download
Farmers’ Regional Trade Agenda: Farmers’ Collective Voice on Trade in the ASEAN Region AFA Issue Paper, Volume 2 Number 3, October 2009 DOWNLOAD: Farmers’ Regional Trade Agenda: Farmers’ Collective Voice on Trade in the ASEAN Region The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has been trying hard to go into free trade agreements (FTAs) with […]
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 […]
