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Year 2004 is International Year of Rice. Being a regional farmers’ organization in the largest rice-eating and rice-producing region in the world, AFA embarked o­n a Sustainable Rice Campaign this year. To launch this campaign, a rice forum and a rice festival were held last February 15, in Karawang, West Java, as part of the [...]

AsiaDHRRA joined the CIIR’s round table discussion o­n Development NGO Good Practices in Poverty Reduction last February 27-28, 2004 at Sulu Hotel, Quezon City. The forum looked into a framework of documenting good practices that was used to capture key elements of good practices in three countries.
Case studies featuring good practices in Indonesia, Philippines and [...]

The book, “Shaping the Asian Peasant Agenda: Solidarity Building Towards Sustainable Rural Development in Asian Rural Communities” was launched last February 16, as o­ne of the activities during the AFA GA. It is jointly published by AFA and AsiaDHRRA.
The book contained the nine country reports, workshop results and lectures of keynote speakers and resource persons, [...]

The PAG, which serves as an advisory body to the Southeast Asia Rural Development Award (SEARDA), met for the first time in February 11, 2004 in Jakarta, Indonesia. It is composed of respected individuals from the NGO, academe, and the government sector. They discussed in detail the program design and the specific components of the [...]

The 11th AsiaDHRRA ExeCom Meeting was held in Depok Indonesia last February 13-14, 2004. InDHRRA hosted the meeting. The main agenda included an assessment of 2003 accomplishments and the approval of 2004 priorities, plan, and budget. The network will sustain its thrust of developing leaders in the context of globalization, assist in [...]