DHRRA Malaysia redesigns website
DHRRA Malysia relaunched their website with a redesign aimed at presenting better information about their activites and simplify web management. Do pay them a visit and learn about the groundbreaking work they are doing in advancing consumer rights and facilitating dialogues with the different sectors in Malaysia.
Happy Women's Day 2009!
WRF holds seminar on Smallholder Family Farming
The World Rural Forum (WRF) will hold an international seminar on family farming entitled “A Future For Smallholder Family Farming” on 10 March, 2009 in Bilbao, Spain. The Seminar aspires to promote feasible proposals aimed at defending family agriculture in the North and South and at informing about and providing ideas on the fundamental role […]
Dr. Wen-Chi Huang presents Taiwan country paper on Agro-tourism workshop
Dr. Wen-Chi Huang, TaiwanDHRRA President together with Ms. Li-Lan Liao presented the Taiwan Country paper on Agro-tourism Development for Creation of Rural Jobs and Diversified Income in Taiwan during the Workshop on Agro-tourism Development for Creation of Rural Jobs and Diversified Income held on 4-8 Nov 2008 in Bandung, Indonesia. The workshop was organized by […]
Workshop Summary: Ensuring Food Security in ASEAN Community
ASEAN is home to 540 million people . Substantial percentages of land resources in many countries in ASEAN are devoted to agricultural production. Agriculture is still an important source of income and livelihood in many ASEAN countries. Yet , the poorest people in ASEAN, or those who live below $1 or even $2 dollars a […]
AsiaDHRRA joins the APF/ACSC 4 in Bangkok
AsiaDHRRA is set to participate in the upcoming ASEAN Peoples’ Forum and ASEAN Civil Society Conference 4to be held in Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand on February 20-22, 2009. During the said event, AsiaDHRRA and AFA will jointly organize a Workshop on Ensuring Food Security for the ASEAN Community on February 21, 2009, 11:00 am – […]
Workshop on Ensuring Food Security for the ASEAN Community
You’re all invited to attend this exciting workshop. Free and open to the public! Download the program here. Visit the APF 2008 website for more info
Drought threatens chinese farmers
Luoyang, China (CNN) — Fifty-year-old farmer Du Jianmin says if it doesn’t rain soon in his corner of northern China, his winter wheat crops — which his village of 120 people relies on for food for the year — will die. Henan province is suffering one of China’s worst droughts in 50 years. Henan province […]
Show me the money!!! or the global pyramid scam explained
This post is not agrarian to say the least but since the current global recession is hitting us all hard i figured this would interest you all dear readers. So here’s an fascinating slideshow that explains the money scam… Click here to know more about the global recession and where all the money went…
The food processing industry and sustainable development
FarmFriday presents this interesting reading about “how large food companies and multinationals, and a select group of supermarket chains have expanded enormously and have captured profit making opportunities in developing countries. Their influence is restructuring developing countries’ agricultural systems and processing industries in such a way that many poor and marginalised groups might remain excluded.” […]
