A Celebration of 50th Year: Empowered to Lead and Innovate!
AsiaDHRRA, with its partner DHRRAs, farmer organizations, development partners, and donors, celebrated its 50th Anniversary, recalling its milestone, priorities on family farming, farmers forum, and new programming cycle in 2025, in Ha Noi, Vietnam, on 22 to 25 December 2024. The first day of celebration reflected on recognizing the founding leaders (including posthumously) who sustained […]
Updating and revisiting the monitoring and evaluation tools for Farmers’ Organization for Asia programme
An in-person workshop for the Farmers’ Organization for Asia (FO4A) programme was organized on 26-28 June 2024 and participated by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) consultants, AgriCord, Asian Farmers Organization (AFA), and Agri-Agency staff. The meeting updated and revisited the programme’s Theory of Change (ToC) and Logical Framework (LF) and hosted by AsiaDHRRA […]
SalassaExpo 2024, a people’s festival advocating climate change and natural farming for a more dignified life
Komunitas Swabina Pedesaan Salassae (KSPS), AsiaDHRRA’s partner farmers’ organization (FO), will organize SalassaExpo 2024, a People’s Festival at the People’s Market in Salassae Village, Bulukumba District, South Sulawesi, Indonesia on 25-27 June 2024. The event will serve as a venue for the people of Bulukumba Regency to share knowledge through a series of activities relating […]
Farmers’ Organization Stories – MarCCO, Philippines
A compilation of farmers’ organizations’ Stories of Change features Matulatula Agrarian Reform Community Cooperative (MarCCO) from Pola, Mindoro Oriental, Philippines. AsiaDHRRA has supported MarCCO since 2016 in building the cooperative’s technical capacities for agribusiness, mainly producing its primary citrus juice, Mindoren C, under the programme Farmers Organization for Asia (FO4A). The programme is supported by […]
The VIII Global Conference Family Farming: Sustainability of our Planet
AsiaDHRRA’s Secretary General, Ms Marlene Ramirez, participated in World Rural Forum’s (WRF) 8th Global Conference Family Farming: Sustainability of our Planet, held at Europa Palace, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, on 19-21 March 2024. Ms Ramirez spoke at a special event on the Economic Sustainability of Family Farming, Value Chains, and Associativism and shared the experience of Matulatula Agrarian […]
One Commune One Product Certification to farmers’ organisation partner in Vietnam
AsiaDHRRA’s Senior Program Manager, Mr. Cezar Belangel, met the key leaders of Phuc Thanh Beekeepers Cooperative (PTBC), a farmers’ organisation (FO) located in a small village in Thai Nguyen province in the northeastern part of Vietnam, on 29 February 2024. The FO’s leadership was delighted to receive their “One Commune One Product (OCOP)” certificate, which […]
Country training on Agroecology, Policy Advocacy, and Constructive Engagement
AsiaDHRRA and Phildhrra-Mindanao jointly organized a 3-day country training on Agroecology, Policy Advocacy, and Constructive Engagement (AE-PACE) at Lispher Inn Hotel, Davao City, on 12-14 December 2023. The event is joined by 26 farmers’ organizations (FO) and non-profit organizations (NGO) leaders. The initiative is 2nd of the two training interventions on AE and PACE for […]
A visit to monitor development progress and accomplishment with COMFAS
AsiaDHRRA’s Senior Program Manager, Mr. Cezar Belangel, visited The Coalition of Municipal Fisherfolk Associations (COMFAS) at Zamboanga Sibugay on 13-17 November 2023 as part of updating the Farmers’ Organization for Asia (FO4A) program on development progress. A focus group discussion (FGD) was conducted to review the accomplishments, challenges faced, and ways forward to 2024. Likewise, […]
A series of meetings updating FO4A project with partner DHRRA and member Farmers’ Organizations in Indonesia
AsiaDHRRA organized a series of meetings with its DHRRA partner, Yayasan Bina Desa, and Farmers’ Organization (FO) members in Indonesia on 6-13 November 2023. The mission’s first leg was with Bina Desa on 6-7 November 2023 in Jakarta, discussing providing technical support and coaching services to its farmers’ organization members. A visit was followed by […]
IFAD’s SIS mission with fisherfolks in Zamboanga Sibugay
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) conducted a Supervision and Implementation System (SIS) Mission on 20-21 May, 2023, with the Coalition of Municipal Fisherfolks Association of Zamboanga Sibugay (COMFAS), a farmers’ organization (FO). IFAD’s project grant manager Ms. Jerry Pacturan was joined by AsiaDHRRA’s Senior Program Manager, Mr. Cezar Belangel, and visited COMFAS’s oyster […]
