AFA Secretary General Esther Penunia attends the “Policy Forum on Development (PFD) – Asia Regional Meeting” held on 24-25 September 2019 in Kathmandu, Nepal. Penunia, representing farmers organizations, provided comments to highlight family farmers as solution providers and actors for SDG implementation and that their work should be supported. The meeting is mainly centered upon […]
AFA, with support from CSA and supplementary support from AsiaDHRRA and ThaiDHRRA, conducted a Scoping Mission and National Cooperatives and Social Enterprises Forum in Thailand on 8-15 September 2019. The team, consisting of AFA Secretary General Esther Penunia, AFA Cooperative Development Program Manager Jojo Ebron, and Cezar Belangel of AsiaDHRRA, accompanied by ThaiDHRRA, went to […]
AFA Secretary General Esther Penunia Banzuela discusses about AFA perspectives on World Agricultures Watch.
The ASEAN Ministers on Agriculture and Forestry (AMAF) adopted the Guidelines for Responsible Agro Investments (RAI) last October 2018. A workshop to formulate and Operationalize an Action plan was held July 30-31, 2019 in Bangkok, Thailand. Representatives from three regional/international forest and farm producer organizations (FFPOs)–Asian Farmers’ Association (represented by AFA Secretary General Esther […]
AFA members PAKISAMA, LFN, UWUA, NAMAC, and AFFM with AFA Secretary General Esther Penunia Banzuela and AFA staff Lorraine Ablan attend the Asia-Pacific Forestry Week 2019 held on 17-21 June 2019 in Incheon, South Korea. Watch the APFW lightning session:
KATHMANDU, NEPAL – What is a gender sensitive value chain? This was the main question posed for the participants of the Regional Consultation Workshop on Understanding and Promoting Gender Sensitive Value Chain in South Asia at the start of the three-day meeting held at Hotel Marshyangdi, Kathmandu, Nepal on 12-14 June 2019. Women and youth […]
AFOSP-MTCP2 farmer organizations participate in the Workshop on Developing Action Plan for Enhancing the Role of Agricultural Cooperative in the Global Value Chain on 28 February 2019 at the Prince Palace Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand. This workshop is co-organized by the consortium Asian Farmers’ Association and La Via Campesina together with the ASEAN Foundation, with […]
The Group brought together experts from ASEAN and beyond to provide critical input to key regional guiding documents The Mekong Expert Group on Agroforestry for Food and Nutrition Security, Sustainable Agriculture and Land Restoration was formed in early 2018 with support from the Swedish Agriculture Network Initiative (SIANI) to help address major land-use challenges in the ten […]
