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In cooperation between CEDAC, the Asia Farmer Association for Sustainable Development (AFA) and the Farmer and Nature Net (FNN) are going to organize a half day workshop-consultation on the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) on Friday, August 5, at Phnom Penh Hotel, 8:00 am – 2:00 pm. The workshop-consultation will be host by […]

Citing AFA Secretary General Esther Penunia’s article “Women and Food Security,” Juhie Bhatia writes at Global Voices about women as an often-overlooked solution to fighting hunger. She points to the gender gap in agriculture, where women  make up almost half of the world’s agricultural labor force and produce one half of the world’s food, but  get little or […]

AFA Secretary General Esther Penunia will make a 10-minute intervention during a multi-stakeholder conference on “Conservation and Sustainable Use of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Nutrition Security” on March 15 in Bali, Indonesia. The intervention will focus on “The past, present and future contributions of farmers in conserving, improving and making available nutritious food […]

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 […]

Brasilia, Brazil – The fourteenth meeting of REAF (Reuniao Especializada Sobre Agricultura Familiar no Mercosul or Commission on Family Farming in the Southern Cone Common Market) was held last November 15-19 in Brasilia, Brazil. MERCOSUL is an intergovernmental regional integration body comprising the countries of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay with associate (expanded) countries of Bolivia […]