The 20th AFA Execom Meeting was held last July 23 at the Ledesma Room of the Partnership Center, Loyola Heights, Quezon City, also hosted by PAKISAMA. The Execom meeting was held to discuss issues on AFA’s movement to full autonomy. Important decisions were made such as hiring of new staff, approval of job designs, office […]
The “Roundtable Discussion on Alternative Regionalism” was held last July 24, 2007 at the Ledesma Room of the Partnership Center, Loyola Heights, Quezon City, hosted by PAKISAMA. The roundtable discussion was organized by TAG, AsiaDHRRA, and AFA, and funded by Oxfam International and Agriterra. It brought together key advocates working on the ASEAN integration processes […]
A “Round-Table Discussion on Alternative Framework on Trade: WTO and Beyond” was held last August 28, 2007 at the Partnership Center, in Quezon City, Philippines. Organized by TAG, AsiaDHRRA, and AFA, the roundtable discussion brought together key advocates working on just and fair global agricultural trade to brainstorm on an alternative framework on trade even […]
In order to understand better the situation of farmers in their respective Asian countries and develop concrete ways to respond to them, farmers belonging to the Asian Farmers Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) will gather for the “Regional Consultation Workshop on Farmers’ Situation: Responding to Major Difficulties Faced by Farmers in Asia” on June […]
The Asian Farmers’ Association held the event entitled “Regional Workshop on ASEAN: Firming up Asian Farmers’ Campaign on ASEAN Regional Integration in Agriculture†last March 10-13, 2007 in Wisma BPK, Kalibata, Jakarta, Indonesia.
The Vietnam Farmers Union hosted an AFA event entitled “Seminar Workshop on Organizational Management: Developing AFA Leaders’ Capacities to Manage AFA Operations†last November 10-14, 2006 in Hanoi, Vietnam. VNFU First Vice-Chairperson Mr. Le Hoang Minh welcomed all 33 (23 male, 10 female) participants from 6 AFA member organizations from 6 Asian countries to the […]
An event entitled “Seminar-Workshop on Developing AFA’s Advocacy on Sustainable Agriculture†was held in Kusuma Agrowisata Hotel, Batu City, Malang, Indonesia last September 11-17, 2006. The event was hosted by Aliansi Petani Indonesia or API (AFA’s member in Indonesia) and Bina Desa, API’s strategic NGO partner. The seminar-workshop resulted in a draft outline of AFA’s […]
In order to learn more about the situation of Indonesian farmers, specifically their initiatives on SA, the participants to AFA’s seminar-workshop on sustainable agriculture went to Tlego Makmur, a farming village near Mt. Semeru, the highest mountain in East Java, last September 13, 2006.
