WHAT: Press Conference of Isidoro “Boy” Ancog, Filipino farmer who went on hunger strike at FAO Biotech Meeting to protest imposition of biotechnology, especially GMOs, on developing countries WHEN: March 8, 2010, 10:00 AM WHERE: Max’s Restaurant, Quezon Circle Filipino farmer ends hunger strike, exposes pro-GMO agenda of FAO meeting Filipino farmer, Isidoro “Boy” Ancog,” […]
W hen Laos won its bid to host last month’s South-East Asian Games, China offered to help the tiny nation by building a gleaming new venue on the outskirts of the capital Vientiane. The facility included a “natatorium” for swimming and a stadium for soccer. But for the Laotian government, such generosity would not come […]
The following is an opinion column by Malaysian Association of Standards Users President Marimuthu Nadason, who is also Chairperson of AsiaDHRRA, a strategic NGO partner of AFA which catalyzed the latter’s formation, that appeared in Malaysia Kini. Nadason examines the problem of rice production in Malaysia and agriculture in general, and urges different ministries and […]
AFA attended the 3rd Summit in the Global Series on Sustainably Sourcing Agricultural Raw Materials organized by the London Business Conferences in IBIS Earls Court, London last November 30 to December 1, 2009. AFA was represented by PAKISAMA Vice President for Mindanao Michael Saguisihan who gave a presentation on the situation of coconut farmers in […]
The important role of women in ensuring food security and in coping with climate change cannot be denied. Thus, it is extremely important that the gender dimension not be left out in any analysis, discussion, and programs that seek to achieve food security and address climate change. Last year, through its researcher, Ms. Riza Bernabe, […]
One of AFA’s thrusts in terms of capacity building for its members is to facilitate technical cooperation and farmer exchanges. In one of its meetings last year, the Execom mandated the secretariat to set up a system where this processes can be facilitated. Last December, an opportunity came up for a study tour to be […]
The Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA), a regional alliance of nine national farmers’ organizations, in eight countries in Asia, representing ten million farmers, held a consultation-workshop, entitled “Farmers’ Voices, Farmers’ Choices: AFA Regional Consultations on Food Sovereignty, Climate Change and Marketing”, last October 6-10, 2009 in Bangkok, Thailand. This consultation was part […]
AFA joined around 2,000 individuals from different NGOs and POs from different countries in a peaceful march to the UN office in Bangkok last October 5 to demand climate justice. United under the banner of “Asian People’s Solidarity for Climate Change”, the marchers called on the developed countries (the north) to give full reparations for […]
