(Note: The appointment of all IYFF special ambassadors are renewed for the 2015 International Year of Soils ). Interview with Ms. Estrella Penunia, International Year of Family Farming Special Ambassador Ms. Estrella Penunia, or Esther, as she is known to colleagues, is Secretary General of the Asian Farmers’ Association (AFA), a regional alliance of national […]
Bangkok, Thailand, 15 Oct 2014 – This year’s World Food Day (16 October) is celebrated across Asia and the Pacific with increasing optimism that the region could achieve the Millennium Development Goal on reducing hunger by 2015. This was among the key messages delivered on the eve of World Food Day at a regional event in […]
AFA will be in Rome on September 16-18 for the XIII UN Inter agency RT on Communications for Development on the theme “Mainstreaming Communication for Development in Policies and Programs Enabling Social Inclusion to support food and nutrition security , resilient livelihoods and family farming.” AFA Secretary General Esther Penunia will, who is also the IYFF Ambassador […]
AFA will join the upcoming Asia Pacific Regional Consultation on The Role of Family Farming in the 21st Century: Achieving the Zero Hunger Challenge by 2025,” to be held Aug 7-10, 2014 at Chennai, India. The consultation is also a follow-up meeting of the November 2013 meeting on IYFF held in Bangkok after the FAO CSO partnership […]
In the Philippines, PAKISAMA and AFA have partnered with the government, especially the DA and the DAR in drumbeating the issues concerning farming families and small-scale food producers. MANILA, Philippines—To emphasize the growing importance of family farming in Philippine agriculture, the government is now highlighting family farms as models of successful farming rather than large […]
Asian Farmers and IYFF: What is it for us during the International Year of Family Farming? DOWNLOAD: Asian Farmers and IYFF: What is it for us during the International Year of Family Farming? Majority of the world’s family farmers are in Asia, and they are also the majority of the world’s poorest. Asia is also […]
PROCEEDINGS 6th AFA GA Regional Consultations: “Seizing the Momentum to Get Concrete Gains for Small Scale Farmers this IYFF” May 6-8, 2014 Hotel Santika Bali, Indonesia Organizer: Asian Farmers Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) Local Host: Aliansi Petani Indonesia (API) Supported by: Agriterra Global Agricultural Food Security Program (GAFSP) International Land Coalition (ILC) Click […]
AFA attended the meeting which was organised by the World Rural Forum and supported by Khalifa Fund for Entreprise Development and Agriterra. Farmers leaders coming from five continents met to agree on global claims needed to strengthen Family Farming worldwide. Thirty leaders of farmers’ organisations sought consensus on their main demands, which was to be […]
