“Family farmers are frontliners, too, especially in the work to build the body’s resilience and resistance to COVID-19 through healthy and nutritious food,” says AFA Secretary-General Esther Penunia during the IFAD live webcast “Farmers on the Frontline – Building resilience in a post-Coronavirus world” broadcasted on 8 May 2020. Family farmers in Asia and the […]
On 8 May 2020, the International Fund for Agricultural Development held a live webcast to discuss the impacts of COVID-19 on rural communities and small scale agriculture in developing countries, how they have already benefitted from IFAD’s resilience-building, and how IFAD is providing response and recovery efforts. The speakers were: Paul Winters, Associate Vice-President of […]
Vientiane, Laos – IFAD Task Manager for MTCP2 Hubert Boirard, AFA Secretary General Esther Penunia, and Thongmang organic vegetable group of Lao Farmer Network (LFN) head Ms. Khammone Louanglath were among the panelists and speakers in the Regional Workshop on Green and Sustainable Agriculture held in Vientiane, Laos on 21-22 January 2020. In her intervention, […]
This is a re-posted article from the Inquirer.net. BANGKOK, Thailand — “Small farm families who only have 25% of the land feed 75% of the population. We feed the world not the Best Foods nor the giant food conglomerates. Yet, we are more vulnerable to exploitation, climate change, and rapid land loss due to government’s […]
The Asian Farmers’ Association (AFA) facilitated the visit of the Department of Agricultural Marketing and Cooperatives of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forests of Bhutan to successful cooperatives in the Philippines as well as government agencies concerned with cooperatives on 24-30 November 2019. During the first day of the learning visit, the 12-member delegation visited […]
This is a re-posted article from the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). One of the things we are trying to understand at Ceres2030 is where and why food is wasted and lost along the food chain. So last month we asked an economist, a scientist, a farmer organization leader, and a modeler how they […]
AFA Secretary General Esther Penunia and Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) – Civil Society Organization (CSO) Asia representative and Technical Adviser Raul Socrates Banzuela went to Timor Leste in October 2018 to get updates about the implementation of Sustainable Agriculture Productivity Improvement Project (SAPIP) which is funded by GAFSP. The GAFSP – CSO Mission […]
A five-member team from the Asian Farmers’ Association (AFA) carried out a Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) – Civil Society Organization (CSO) country visit to Bhutan on 15-23 September 2019. The mission team, consisting of AFA Secretary-General Esther Penunia, Asia Pacific Farmers’ Program Coordinator Lany Rebagay, AFA Cooperative Development Manager Jojo Ebron, AFA […]
