The SAARC Agriculture Centre (SAC) in technical partnership with Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) conducted a virtual regional expert consultation meeting on “Strategies to mitigate emerging challenges of dairy cooperatives for strengthening livelihood and food security in South Asia”. Seventeen representatives of SAARC Member States including technical experts from SAC as well […]
Genesis: Regional expert Consultation Meeting on “Family farmers cooperatives to end hunger and poverty through integrated framing in South Asia held on 22 -24th July 2019 at NDDB, Anand, India Background Dairying is a centuries-old tradition for millions of South Asian households by virtue of rearing milk-producing animals, primarily, cows and buffaloes since time immemorial. […]
In support of the UN Decade of Family Farming (UNDFF), the Asian Farmers’ Association (AFA) and its partner organizations conducted virtual events that aimed at strengthening efforts to empower family farmers as well as highlight the important role of family farmers in achieving food security. Sustaining Family Farming in Asia-Pacific through inclusive, farmer-driven approaches One […]
REGISTER HERE Introduction South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) comprising eight countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) where 65% of the population residing in rural areas. A large majority of the rural population are smallholder family farmers adopting integrated farming system consisting of agriculture, forestry, fisheries, pastoral and aquaculture […]
Download this book: Book-Strengthening Seed Systems-CBSS-SAC-AFA-PARC-2020 This book is an output of a regional experts’ consultation program on “Partnership to Strengthen Community Based Seed Systems in South Asia”, organized by the SAARC Agriculture Center (SAC), Dhaka; the Asian Farmers Association (AFA), the Philippines; and the Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC), Pakistan during 7-9 November 2019, […]
Forty participants from six member countries of the South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)–Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Maldives, Sri Lanka–comprising country focal persons experts from their ministries of agriculture and cooperatives, leaders of farmers organizations implementing the Medium Term Cooperation Phase 2 (MTCP2), a capacity building program for Farmers Organizations supported by the International […]
KATHMANDU, NEPAL – What is a gender sensitive value chain? This was the main question posed for the participants of the Regional Consultation Workshop on Understanding and Promoting Gender Sensitive Value Chain in South Asia at the start of the three-day meeting held at Hotel Marshyangdi, Kathmandu, Nepal on 12-14 June 2019. Women and youth […]
KATHMANDU, NEPAL – Women and youth in agriculture in South Asia were the center of the discussions during the consultation meeting themed “Youth and Women in Agriculture: For Economic Development and Key to Food Security in Future” held on 9-11 June 2019 at Park Village Resort in Kathmandu, Nepal. Women and youth farmers as well […]
