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, […]
Regional Learning Session on Sustainable and Inclusive Marketing Arrangements towards increasing Farmers’ Market Power May 9-11, 2013 Manila, Philippines Click here to download
The knowledge learning and sharing workshop entitled “Lessons Learned from Farmers’ Involvement in GAFSP Processes” was held last November 9-11, 2012 at the Cambodiana Hotel in Phnom Penh Cambodia. This sharing workshop was organized by AFA, AsiaDHRRA and CSA, hosted by FNN, and supported by Agricord. The workshop was organized as one of the activities […]
Proceedings of Regional Consultation on AR4D (Sep 10-11, 2012, Bangkok, Thailand) Documentation of the 1.5 day consultation on AR4D agenda, attended by around 30 participants from AFA member organizations, APAARI and GFAR officials. The results of the consultation serve as AFA’s inputs to events involving AR4D issues, particularly the GCARD 2012 discussions. It is also the […]
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 […]
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 […]
International Climate Change Negotiations: Ensuring Support for Adaptation and Mitigation Measures in Smallholder Agriculture, Vol. 2 No. 4, December 2009. In December 2009, women in Sayphusi, a village in the province of Attapeu in Laos, were busy washing dried mud from their paddy grains. They had very little to eat, and the muddied paddy – […]
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 […]
