Synthesis and consolidation Lead Organizer: Asian Farmers Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) June 11, 2021, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM Philippine Standard Time (16.00-18.00 UTC+8) REGISTER HERE Background Understanding the Food Systems Summit The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, has called on all world leaders to take part in the Food Systems Summit […]
Sustainable Fishing Organized by the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) and Pacific Island Farmers Organisation Network (PIFON) 9 June 2021 | 16:00 – 18:00 GMT/UTC+8 (Manila Time) REGISTER HERE Understanding the Food Systems Summit The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, has called on all world leaders to take part in the Food […]
Sustainable Food Systems and Climate Change AdaptionOrganized by the Pacific Island Farmers Organisation Network (PIFON)June 7, 2021, 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM Philippine Standard Time Understanding the Food Systems Summit The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, has called on all world leaders to take part in the Food Systems Summit in 2021 to help establish the […]
“We envision a food system that promotes equal rights and equitable opportunities for women farmers, and views family farming organizations as partners,” said Esther Penunia, Secretary-General of AFA, on behalf of AFA constituencies, in her intervention. On April 28, 20201, Penunia participated in the Food Systems Summit Independent Dialogue co-organized by the Permanent Mission of […]
The SAARC Agriculture Centre (SAC) in technical partnership with Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) conducted a virtual regional expert consultation meeting on “Strategies to mitigate emerging challenges of dairy cooperatives for strengthening livelihood and food security in South Asia”. Seventeen representatives of SAARC Member States including technical experts from SAC as well […]
NO ONE SHOULD BE LEFT BEHIND, is the common message shared across the discussions during the APFSD Side Event titled “Multi-stakeholder Partnerships: Antidote to COVID-19 and Booster to SDG Action” held on 22 March 2021 via Zoom. Regional organizations from CSOs, governments, UN agency, and other stakeholders gathered to showcase initiatives on COVID-19 recovery and […]
Background The concept of Branding has been around for hundreds of years and likely much longer. What it means to brand something has broadened quite a bit since the word first came into use. Despite the changes, each of the older kinds of branding is still widely used today. To date, distribution channels are far-reaching […]
In a world where 2/5 of the world’s plants and a million species now face extinction, where we lose rainforests the size of a football field every minute, and where agriculture is causing 80% of ecosystem degradation, contributing to climate change and biodiversity loss and degraded soils, can we cultivate a common ground between agriculture […]
