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AFA Secretary General Esther Penunia represented AFA in the international meeting entitled “Territories, agriculture, fisheries and forestry sectors faced with climate change: A better understanding of vulnerabilities for a more efficient response” organized by FAO and UNDP last October 21-22, 2009 in Brent, Le Quartz. Click here for the program: https://asianfarmers.org/events/200910climatechangevulnerabilities/program.pdf Click here for the […]

AFA Secretary General Esther Penunia represented AFA to the World Food Week events in Rome on October 12-16, 2009. She was a panelist in one of the sessions of the High Level Experts Forum on “How to Feed the World in 2050” held at the FAO Headquarters in Rome last October 12-13. It was a […]

AFA participated in a WTO public forum entitled “Global Problems, Global Solutions: Towards Better Global Governance” held last 28 30 September 28 30, 2009 in Geneva, Switzerland. Click here for more information about the WTO Public Forum 2009: http://www.wto.org/english/forums_e/public_forum09_e/public_forum09_e.htm AFA Secretary General Esther Penunia was a panellist for a session organized by IATP on September […]

Women farmer-leaders belonging to the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) are featured in a poster produced by the CGIAR on the theme women and climate change, to be published in June. Ms. Sudaporn Sittisathapornkul of SorKorPor (Thailand), Ms. Luisita Esmao of LAKAMBINI-PAKISAMA (Philippines), Ms. Jang of WAFF (Korea), and Ms. Esther Penunia […]

AFA, as a regional farmers’ organization, and 3 member organizations from Southeast Asian countries participated in the negotiations on the “Medium Term Cooperation Programme with Farmers’ Organizations in the Asia and the Pacific Region” held last May 12-13, 2009 at the FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific Region in Bangkok, Thailand. Esther Penunia […]