This article is originally published by the United Nations, 29 June 2020, un.org The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, in collaboration with the United Nations (UN) Rome-based Agencies, will convene the Food Systems Summit in 2021, as a critical contribution to the Decade of Action to deliver the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals […]
This article was originally published by FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific Bangkok/Manila/Jakarta/Rome. Asia-Pacific’s smallholder family farmers produce most of the world’s food, yet they are facing a disproportionate impact on their livelihoods and food security due to the present coronavirus pandemic, a collaboration of FAO and advocacy groups warned today. The COVID-19 […]
Join the Ceres2030 and the SDG2 Advocacy Hub for a virtual event to be held on July 21, 2020, from 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. (CET). COVID-19 has caused massive disruptions to almost every aspect of our food systems, making the invisible visible. New hunger numbers released on July 13 in the 2020 State of Nutrition and Food Security in the World report […]
14 July 2020. “To build back better, we call on governments and development partners to recognize family farmers through their organizations and cooperatives as solution providers, as frontliners and as dynamic and active partners for the work to implement the UN Decade of family farming to accelerate the achievement of SDG 1 and SDG2. We […]
This article is originally published by ComDev Asia Mobilize investments and provide sufficient direct financing to forest and farm producer organizations (FFPOs), so they can keep family farming alive. This was the main recommendation by FFPOs who participated in an international web consultation on “Multi-dimensional Resilience: Smallholder Producers and Farmers Managing Risks,” held last June […]
In a statement, leaders and members of the Asian Farmers Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) strongly emphasized the role Asian family farmers have taken as frontlines and key actors during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the 27 countries covered by AFA members and their partners, partial or total lockdowns continue to adversely affect not only public […]
The Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development collaborated with the Food and Forest Development Finland (FFD), AgriCord, Forest and Farm Facility (FFF), and the Pan-African Farmers’ Organization (PAFO) for an international web consultation and conference themed “Multidimensional Resilience Smallholder Producers and Farmers Managing Risks” held online on 9-11 June 2020. Farmer leaders of AFA […]
Reposted from Nutrition Connect In blog 30 in our series on opportunities for building back better food systems and nutrition, Esther Penunia, Secretary-General of the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA), discusses the challenges faced by smallholder farms across Asia, and how they are working to overcome them. She calls on governments and […]
