Excerpt from the Strategy Paper:
“The past nine years, 2002-2010, have seen us struggling to take root and make ourselves known and heard at the international, regional, and national levels as a regional alliance of small scale women and men farmers’ organizations (FOs) in Asia. Slowly but surely, our efforts are paying off.
Our alliance, the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA), began in 2002 as a coming together of farmers’ organizations (FOs) that are partners of AsiaDHRRA (Asian Partnership for the Development of Human Resources in Rural Asia), a regional NGO network. Leaders of these FOs participated in the five farmers’ exchange visits AsiaDHRRA organized in 1998-2002 with funding support from MISEREOR and the ASEAN Foundation. In these visits, we learned of our common aspirations, experiences, and struggles. We, therefore, decided to forge an alliance in order to effectively and efficiently address our common issues, and fight for a better quality of life for ourselves, our families, and our communities.
From an informal gathering of five national FOs from Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, South Korea and Philippines in 2002, under the facilitation of AsiaDHRRA, we have grown into a fully registered, autonomous alliance of ten FOs from eight Asian countries by December 2010. Our five additional members are one from Cambodia, one from Japan, two from Taiwan, and another one from South Korea. ”
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