Community-based NTFP Enterprise (CBNE Forum) 1-5 June 2021 Master Class “Transforming Farmers and Forest Resource Collectors Associations into Cooperatives towards Business Continuity: Leveraging Business Plans to enhance NTFP-enterprises” 4 June 2021 | 10:30 am – 12:00 nn GMT/UTC +8/Manila Time   PROGRAMME Timeslot Topic Presentor/Facilitator 10:30 AM – 10:45 AM (5 minutes)   (5 minutes) […]
It can be said that a woman farmer is an embodiment of the nexus of agriculture, health, nutrition, water, and energy. And that to succeed as a farmer and in family life in general, one needs land – to grow food, to build a house, to grow herbal plants, to get water, and to get […]
  Young Women and Men Farmers As Advocates for Sustainable, Resilient, Gender Sensitive Agri-Forest Based Livelihoods: Young Farmers for Farms in Forests, Forests in Farms REGIONAL EXCHANGE AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT FAIR October 2-3, 2020 Philippine Standard Time   REGISTER HERE   Introduction Honing young farmers as leaders and advocates for sustainable, resilient, and gender-sensitive agri-forest-based […]
(Note: The appointment of all IYFF special ambassadors are renewed for the 2015 International Year of Soils ). Interview with Ms. Estrella Penunia, International Year of Family Farming Special Ambassador Ms. Estrella Penunia, or Esther, as she is known to colleagues, is Secretary General of the Asian Farmers’ Association (AFA), a regional alliance of national […]
MEDIA ADVISORY Official Launch of the Medium Term Cooperation Project – Phase Two (MTCP2) INVITATION TO REPRESENTATIVES OF THE MEDIA When: Saturday, November 23, 2013, 9:00 AM Where: Amari Watergate Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand Who: AFA, La Via Campesina, ANFPa, PIFON, IFAD Farmers’ federations from Asia-Pacific, with support of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), […]
(Paper presented by Esther A. Penunia, Secretary General, Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA), to the UN expert group meeting on “Enabling rural women’s economic empowerment: institutions, opportunities and participation?” organized by UN Women in cooperation with FAO, IFAD and WFP on Sep 20-23, 2011 in Accra, Ghana.) This paper would like to […]
AFA participated in an international conference entitled “People’s Food Sovereignty Now: Civil Society Organizations (CSO) Forum Parallel to World Summit on Food Security 2009″ held on November 13-17, in Rome, Italy. AFA was represented by Ms. Sudaporn Sittisathapornkul (Khun Paew), Chairperson, AFA, and Adviser, SKP; Mr. Pote Chumsri (Khun Pote), Secretary General, SKP and translator; […]
CIVIL SOCIETY CAUCUS ON EU-ASEAN PARTNERSHIP NEGOTIATIONS Weds, August 13, 2008, 1:00 pm – 5:30 P.M. Mandarin Oriental Suites 4th Level Gateway Mall, Araneta Center, Cubao, Quezon City Program 01 Overview of EU-RP Economic Relations (by Riza Bernabe) 02 EU-ASEAN FTA Mandates and the PCA (by Golda Benjamin) 03 EU-ASEAN FTA Campaign Network (by Joseph […]
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