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AFA calls for sustainable and inclusive partnerships to ensure global food security

Asian Farmers Association -
February 3, 2015
Small scale family farmers face big challenges. They have to increase yields to produce more for society. But in so doing, they must provide nutritious food, increase their incomes, adapt to the changing climate, protect their ecosystem and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Small scale family farmers have a response to these challenges: sustainable, agro-ecological and […]
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AFA calls for greater support for small scale family farmers for food security, nutrition and poverty eradication at FAORAP’s World Food Day celebration

Asian Farmers Association -
October 28, 2014
“We all know that we will need a doctor once in a while, a lawyer hopefully never or just once, but a farmer we will need three times a day. No farmer, no food. And food is a basic right. Thus, for food security and nutrition, for eradicating hunger and poverty, for a sustainable, ecological […]
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AFA calls for communication with, by and for family farmers at the XIII UN roundtable on ComDev

Asian Farmers Association -
October 28, 2014
“The challenge to the international community and to decision makers at all levels of society is to work with family farmers, through their farmers organizations… Communication for Development is key to enable social inclusion and put forward our own development agenda.” This was the message delivered by AFA Secretary General and FAO Special Ambassador for […]
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Asia and the Pacific region celebrates World Food Day with a focus on small holder and family farmers towards the eradication of hunger

Asian Farmers Association -
October 17, 2014
Bangkok, Thailand, 15 Oct 2014 – This year’s World Food Day (16 October) is celebrated across Asia and the Pacific with increasing optimism that the region could achieve the Millennium Development Goal on reducing hunger by 2015. This was among the key messages delivered on the eve of World Food Day at a regional event in […]
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AFA at the International Symposium on Agroecology

Asian Farmers Association -
September 18, 2014
AFA Chairperson Shimpei Murakami and Secretary General Esther Penunia are attending the #UNFAO Int’l Symposium on #Agroecology for #FoodSecurity & #Nutrition in Rome on September 18-19. You may follow the live webcast at:  http://bit.ly/1ssXI7N .
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UN Decade of Family FarmingUpdates

AFA to attend UN inter-agency roundtable

Asian Farmers Association -
September 2, 2014
AFA will be in Rome on September 16-18 for the XIII UN  Inter agency RT on Communications for Development on the theme “Mainstreaming Communication for Development in Policies and Programs Enabling Social Inclusion to support food and nutrition security , resilient livelihoods and family farming.” AFA Secretary General Esther Penunia will, who is also the IYFF Ambassador […]
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Philippine CSOs gear up for IYFF 2014 events

Asian Farmers Association -
March 28, 2014
CIVIL society organizations (CSOs) will meet at the Partnership Center in Quezon City on Monday (April 1, 2014) to highlight the calendar of activities and set a jubilant mood leading to the global closing event of International Year of Family Farming (IYFF) in the Philippines. In his opening statement at the 32nd Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Asia Pacific […]
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SEARCA to partner with AFA for ARD2014

Asian Farmers Association -
March 21, 2014
The Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) and the Asian Farmer’s Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) met on 21 March 2014 to discuss AFA’s participation in the 2nd International Conference on Agricultural and Rural Development in Southeast Asia (ARD2014). The meeting was attended by Ms. Esther Penunia, AFA […]
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