Farmers’ Organization for Asia (FO4A) is a capacity-building program aiming to increase income and  improve livelihood, food and nutrition security, and safety of family farming through greater integration of family farms in key agricultural value chains. It is a follow-up program of the previous cooperation with the EU and IFAD on the program Asian Farmers Organizations Support Program (AFOSP – Farmers Fighting Poverty in the ASEAN Region (FFP-ASEAN). In addition, the project has complementation with AsiaDHRRA’s current initiatives with FAO and ASEAN on Responsible Agricultural Investment (RAI), Territorial Rural Development (TRD), Digital Village Initiative (DVI), and Agroecology.

Objectives:
The overall objective of the action is to increase income and to improve livelihood, food and nutrition security and safety of the Asia family farming in the target areas of the project.

The specific objectives are: FOs and farmer-led enterprises improve technical and economic services along the value chains; FOs influence policies and business environments for the transformation of family farming and the development of sustainable, adaptive economic initiatives and farmer-led enterprises; FOs are accountable organizations able to effectively perform their institutional functions.

Areas Implemented:
The program is implemented in Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam

Cambodia:

1. Farmer and Nature Net Association (FNN)

Indonesia:

2) Ngudi Mulyo
3) Komunitas Swabina Pedesaan Salassae (KSPS)
4) Aliansi Petani Indonesia (API)

Philippines:

5) Coalition of Municipal Fishers Associations of Zamboanga Sibugay (COMFAS)
6) Matulatula Agrarian Reform Community Cooperative (MARCCO)
7) Islands of Samar & Leyte Agriculture Cooperative (ISLACO)
8) Philippine Family Farmers’ Agriculture Fishery Forestry Cooperatives Federation (AgriCOOPh)

Vietnam:

9) An Giang Farmers Union (AGFU)
10) Viet Nam Farmers Union (VNFU)
11) Phuc Thanh Beekeeping Cooperative (PTBC)

Funding
The program is in coordination with Agricord and funded by EU and IFAD