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Visits to two major international agricultural research institutes based in Taiwan –AVRDC and FFTC was dovetailed to the AsiaDHRRA ExeCom meeting.
AsiaDHRRA was warmly welcomed by FFTC’s leadership led by Director Sing-Hwa Hu. The Food and Fertilizer Technology Center (FFTC) is a regional center who plays an unusual role among the world’s international agricultural centers. It [...]

The ExeCom, with the AFA Chairperson, visited the World Vegetable Research and Development Center located in Shanhua, Tainan, south of Taiwan. The mission of the center is to alleviate poverty in the developing world through increased production and consumption of safe vegetables.
Similar with the AsiaDHRRA’s priority target group, AVRDC also focuses on improving the livelihood [...]

Two members were visited within the first quarter of 2007 namely DHRRA Malaysia and InDHRRA. The main objective of the visit was, after the formal mandate from the assembly in 2006, to share the strategic plan to a broader stakeholder of each DHRRA (staff and Board) the AsiaDHRRA strategic plan and generate deeper understanding and [...]

AsiaDHRRA joined an ASEAN seminar primarily attended by members of the business sector in the region. The objectives of the seminar were to present features of the ASEAN Economic community and to highlight key developments and prospects in ASEAN for trade in good and services, standards and conformance, customs, investment, finance, infrastructure, intellectual property, dispute [...]

As part of the continuing advocacy of AsiaDHRRA towards promotion of fair agricultural trade, a delegation was sent, together with the AFA Chairperson, to actively participate in the CSO Strategy Meeting on G33 which ran parallel to the meeting of G33 officials in Jakarta from March 20-21. The CSO parallel meeting was organized by [...]

Alongside its aim of sustaining the orientation and demystification process of its partners about ASEAN, AsiaDHRRA, together with the Asian Farmers Association (AFA), helped arrange a dialogue between farmer leaders and their NGO partners with the ASEAN Secretary General H.E. Ong Keng Yong.
The dialogue concluded the two-day regional workshop of AFA entitled: Firming up [...]

Civil Society Statement
G33 Ministers’ Meeting
Jakarta, Indonesia
March 21, 2007
We are the small women and men farmers, indigenous people, fisherfolk, non-government organizations, research and advocacy groups and other agricultural stakeholders calling on the G33 to resist the underhanded acts of the United States, European Union and other WTO members to undermine the right of developing countries? to [...]

Aileen Kwa and Walden Bello | Focus on the Global South
Agreement on Agriculture. Part of the Uruguay Round agreement covering issues related to agriculture — e.g., market access, export subsidies, and internal support.
Aggregate Measure of Support (AMS). An index that measures the monetary value of the extent of government support to an economic sector. [...]

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The 2nd ExeCom Meeting was hosted by Dr. Wen-chi Huang, TaiwanDHRRA President, in the vast campus of the National Pingtung University for Science and Technology, where she is a senior professor. Chaired by Marimuthu Nadason, the ExeCom discussed, among others, organizational matters including approval of discussion and concept papers in relation to the network’s rural [...]