With only 3 days before the Food Systems Summit 2021, AFA wishes to shed a light on the role of Family Farmers in Asia as game changers in making our food systems sustainable, inclusive, empowering. Family farmers are not just food producers but are knowledge producers and solution providers; and our organizations are our […]
“At SEWA we are working with women of the informal sector since last four decades to organize them because we feel that organizing is a core strength of being a trade union, we were born in 1972, so almost four decades. Now we are working in 16 states in India…” – Megha Desai, Senior […]
On July 26, 2021, AFA’s Secretary-General Ms. Estrella Penunia delivered an opening speech during the UNFSS Plenary’s Opening Session. With the theme “A Bold Ambition to Improve Food Systems,” Ms. Penunia highlighted the current state of our global food systems, and she emphasized what being bold means for small-scale food producers and family farmers. […]
In a world where 2/5 of the world’s plants and a million species now face extinction, where we lose rainforests the size of a football field every minute, and where agriculture is causing 80% of ecosystem degradation, contributing to climate change and biodiversity loss and degraded soils, can we cultivate a common ground between agriculture […]
October 5, 2020. The Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) held its 9th General Assembly last October 5, 2020, via Zoom. The event was attended by AFA members representing women, men, and youth farmers from 13 member organizations of AFA. Due to the covid 19 pandemic, the AFA GA was held virtually for […]
This video on the United Nations Decade of Family Farming was first shown today, 3 September 2020, during the Ministerial Session of the 35th FAO Asia Pacific Regional Conference (APRC). AFA Secretary-General Esther Penunia was interviewed for this video production.
Empowering women farmers as key actors in building a sustainable, healthy and food secure future Regional Exchange of Women Farmers 4 October 2020 10:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Philippines Standard Time This event will bring together members of the women’s committee to share their experiences and at the same time to learn from others. At […]
CARABAO MULTIPLIER FARM Delegates from the Asian Farmers’ Association (AFA) and Asia-Pacific Farmers’ Forum steering committee went on a learning visit to Lamac Multi-Purpose Cooperative’s (LMPC) various enterprises and initiatives on 19 December 2019 as part of the series of activities by AFA dovetailed to the UNDFF strategizing session with its members. Their first stop […]
