In an interview with Earth Concern Asia, AFA Secretary General Esther Penunia talks about the need to refocus efforts and investments in agriculture towards sustainable, integrated, diversified agriculture done and managed by organized groups of small scale women and men farmers, fishers, indigenous peoples in order to achieve food security and poverty reduction in the world; the unequal distribution of resources, lack of access to economic opportunities and poor participation in decision-making processes by smallholders as the main cause of their poverty; the need to recognize that women farmers have the potential and the solution to bring their families out of poverty and thus should be at the forefront of agriculture; and AFA’s efforts at fighting for land rights for smallholders and to build capacities of women for greater participation in policy making in agriculture.
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