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Here’s great news straight from  José A. Osaba and our good friends at WRF. Thanks to all partners and friends and the Asiadhrra Network for actively participating in the IYFF campaign! “We have got finally the good news that many of our organizations have been waiting for. Today, December 22nd 2011, at 4.55 pm, New [...]

AsiaDHRRA joined two Seminars organized by the International Poverty Reduction Center of China (IPRCC). The first seminar on “Policies and Practices of Rural Poverty Reduction in China and ASEAN countries” was held in Wuhan City, Hubei Province last October 12-18, 2011. Twenty five (25) participants from 9 ASEAN countries and China. The second seminar on  [...]

Asiadhrra is set to participate in a forum on food security sponsored by FAO RAP. The Forum entitled, “Nutrition-Sensitive Food Production Systems for Sustainable Food Security” will take place on December 7-8, 2011 in Bangkok, Thailand, at Conference Hall of the FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific. Asiadhrra will be joined by participants [...]

FINAL DECLARATION Family Farming World Conference: Feeding the World, Caring for the Earth October 5-7, 2011 / Bilbao, Spain   We, 200 women and men, leaders of national, regional and international farmers’ organizations, civil society groups and social movements, and key academic and research institutions, from four continents of the world –Africa, Americas, Asia and [...]

“On 20th.July 2011 the RDPE National Consultation  for Viet Nam was held at the meeting room of the Center of Agricultural Extension Volunteers (CAEV), 4th.Floor, A1 Building, Phuong Mai, 102 Truong Chinh, Ha Noi which is also Executive Office of the Vietnam Partnership of Human Resource Development for Rural Areas (VietDHRRA).” Read the details of [...]

AsiaDHRRA together with its members and partners participated in the recently concluded Workshop On The Framework Action Plan On Rural Development And Poverty Eradication held at the ASEAN Secretariat last Sept.29-30, 2011. Dr. Toan of VietDHRRA, in his talk during the information sharing, highlighted the centrality of small-holder farmers,fishers and indigenous peoples both men and [...]

Asiadhrra, represented by Ms. Marlene Ramirez, Secretary General, is set to participate in two important meetings related to the campaign for an International Year of Family Farming (IYFF). As a member of World Consultative Committee of the IYFF, Asiadhrra will participate in the first meeting of the committee to be held in Rome on 30 [...]

AsiaDHRRA has been tapped by the ASEAN Secretariat to anchor the drafting process of the ASEAN Rural Development and Poverty Eradication Framework Action Plan (RDPE FAP) for 2011-2015.  We are facilitating, together with our national CSO partners and in coordination with the national ASEAN SOMRDPE Focal Points, a series of national consultations this month of [...]

Dr. Wenchi Huang, the current Asiadhrra Chairperson had a fruitful discussion with the staff at the secretariat office in the Philippines on current concerns, updates on activities and projects  and strategic objectives. This was the first time she met with the full staff after being selected as the chairperson of the network last year and [...]

We are happy to share to the plenary the highlights of our ACSC/APF workshop held on May 5, 2011 at Ciputra, Jakarta and attended by more than 50 CSO participants from the  ASEAN region representing different sectors and organizations. The important workshop was co-organized by AFA and AsiaDHRRA, API and Binadesa/InDHRRA. Our speakers came from [...]

You are most welcome to participate in the three wonderful workshops we are holding today (May 04, 2011) in partnership with various Asian NGOs at the ACSC/APF 2011. The three workshops will be held from  09:00AM – 6:30PM at the Hotel Ciputra, Jakarta, Indonesia. The 3 workshops are: Agriculture and the Peasantry in ASEAN: Challenges [...]

The second workshop on Food Price Volatility and Food Reserves in ASEAN (co-organized with API, Bina Desa, AFA and AAI) will converse on the causes and effects of food price volatility particularly on small scale producers. It will also take a closer look at the ASEAN Rice Reserve Scheme especially on making it more benificial [...]

The workshop on CSO Engagement with the ASEAN and its member states (co-organized by AsiaDHRRA with CODE-NGO, Demos, HRWG, INCITEGov, ROA, SRD, Star Kampuchea, VUSTA, WMD, YAPPIKA) hope to bring the voices and perspectives on the status of CSO engagement at different levels and varying degrees of democratic spaces available. The workshop will feature concrete [...]