Statement and Recommendations of Farmers’ Organizations at the Transformative Partnership Platform on Agroecology (Agroecology TPP) Annual Members ForumMarch 31 – April 4, 2025 | Hanoi, VietnamDelivered by Jonjon Sarmiento, PAKISAMA Family farmers are not just food producers but knowledge producers and solution providers. Our organizations and cooperatives are our platforms for collective actions, enabling us […]
We, 40 representatives of seven (7) regional/international small-scale farmers’ and fishers’ organizations (FOs),[1] with a combined membership of 24 million, 34% of whom are women and 23% are youth, have gathered both in-person and virtually for the 2nd Asia Pacific Regional Farmers Forum (AP RFAFO) on 26-27 October 2022 in Bangkok, Thailand. We have been accompanied […]
We are leaders and members of the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development, with 20 member organizations and cooperatives in 16 countries [1] in Asia, comprising around 13 million small scale women and men family farmers, fishers, forest dwellers, indigenous peoples, pastoralists, and herders. As a regional family farmers’ organization, we work with […]
YOGYAKARTA, INDONESIA – On October 20, 2018, 84 farmer leaders from 21 countries, representing 38 million small scale farmers, fishers, indigenous peoples, herders and pastoralists, met with the 37 staff of the IFAD Asia and Pacific Region Division in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, for the first Asia Pacific Region Farmers Forum (FAFO). The Forum was held in conjunction with […]
We are deeply shocked to learn the news of the killings of two land rights defenders—Mr. Luis Arturo Marroquin on 10th of May 2018 and Mr. Jose Can Xol of CCDA on 11th of May 2018 in Guatemala. Mr. Marroquin, coordinator and regional leader of CODECA and defender of human rights in San Luis Jalapa, […]
We, the representatives of the ASEAN Member States, together with representatives of agricultural cooperatives, farmers’ and fishers’ organizations, development partners, and civil society organizations, gathered during the 2018 ASEAN Cooperative Business Forum in Pan Pacific Hotel, Malate, Manila, Philippines with the theme “Cooperatives: Members’ owned, Value-based, Sustainable and Advancing Prosperity For All Through Coop to […]
AIPP/NTFP-EP/AFA Statement for the Asia Pacific Forestry Week 2016 DOWNLOAD: AIPP-NTFP-EP-AFA-Statement-for-the-APFW-2016
The following is a guest blog by AFA Secretary General Esther Penunia for the World Economic Forum’s, which is holding the New Vision for Agriculture initiative in Myanmar this week. The economy of the Philippines grew 7.8% in the first quarter of this year, outperforming China and the rest of Asia. The media announced the news […]
