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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 [...]

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 [...]

A historic event in the IYFF campaign, WRF shares this very important step that transpired in the FAO Side Event on Family Farming: Last Saturday, 2nd July 2011, the plenary of the 37th FAO Conference ratified the Resolution introduced by the Philippino delegation (see attached text),   supported by more than 15 countries, without any opposition, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

OrganicSaturdays shares this tidbit from GlobalResearch.ca about how Philippine Farmers are reaping the benefits of going organic. MASIPAG-trained farmers have not used chemical pesticides for decades now, he said, with ducks for example an excellent natural control against golden snail; “it converts biomass into eggs and meat as well,” he observed. MASIPAG organic farms, he [...]

Our friends at GIZ Thailand sent out this invite for a regional training they will conduct on June 21-25, 2011 in Krabi, Thailand dubbed “The Future of Smallholder Farming in Agribusiness“. Agriculture must produce more from less, and do so in an environmentally sustainable, efficient and socially just manner. The GIZ partnership farming approach provides [...]

Our friends at WRF is sharing the results of the IYFF Africa Continental Meeting held on 24 October 2010 in Lilongwe, Malawi. Click to download/read the pdf…

The IYFF campaign continues to ramp up with more and more organizations and states signing up and  pledging support.  Join us in this campaign to make Family Farming an important focus worldwide and a viable alternative to corporate farms. Here are the latest updates sent by Mr. Jose Osaba of the WRF. 315 farmers and [...]

Another interesting read from FAO about the role of small seed enterprises to secure food security. Thanks to Mr. Osaba of WRF for the share. The guide highlights successes from Brazil, India and Cote d’Ivoire, underscoring the importance of a favorable policy environment that promotes quality control and certification systems, private sector support, flexible legislation [...]

Support for the International Year of Family Farming continues to grow worldwide. Among the latest endorsers are the Department of Agriculture of the Philippines and the Pan-African Farmers Association. We need your support dear readers, to encourage your states and governments to endorse this very noble campaign! Kindly visit the IYFF website for more information [...]

FarmFriday shares this interesting newsbit we picked up from PhilRice about a research they conducted that showed Filipino rice farmers have steadily improved their socio-economic status over the past 10 years or so. Any reactions? There is a steady improvement in the social and economic status among Filipino rice farmers and their household for the [...]

FarmFriday shares this interesting newsbit from IPS. This highlights again the need to support agriculture in general and smallholder farmers in particular. IPS|By Stephen Leahy How’s this for short-sighted: A billion people go hungry every day, food prices have climbed 30 to 40 percent, climate change is reducing agricultural production – and for the past [...]

FarmFriday shares this nugget. Available for download is the report of the ileia organised conference on the Future of Family Farming. ileia organised a conference on the Future of Family Farming, on the occasion of its 25th anniversary. Keynote speakers like Camilla Toulmin from the UK, K.S. Gopal from India and Olufunke Cofie from Ghana [...]

FarmFriday highlights this is very interesting newsbit from IFAD with its President Kanayo F. Nwanze pushing for more efforts  to linking smallholder farmers to the private sector: “In Davos, I intend to show business leaders how linking smallholder farmers to the private sector is key to building the economy of developing countries. The private sector [...]