The 1st SAARC Agri Cooperative Business Forum: Organizing and Strengthening Family Farmers Cooperatives to attain SDGs 1 and 2 in South Asia was held in Kathmandu, Nepal on 28-30 August 2018.
The forum is a platform to share and learn from experiences of various organizations (from government, FOs and international development partners) in organizing and strengthening family farmers’ agricultural cooperatives towards promoting sustainable incomes, livelihoods and rural development. The sharing also focused on gender and youth, as most presentations described how the initiatives helped and benefited women and young farmers as well.
The forum is organized by the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA), La Via Campesina (LVC), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), SAARC Agriculture Center (SAC) with the facilitation of the SAARC Secretariat, and is supported by the International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD) and Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) through the MTCP2 (Medium Term Cooperation Program Phase 2).
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PRESENTATIONS
State of Agri Cooperatives in South Asia
Agri Cooperatives to Achieve the SDGs: Framework and Perspectives
- FAO Perspectives on Agri Cooperatives and SDGs
- FO Perspective on Agri Cooperatives
- ICA Perspective on Agri Cooperatives
- SAARC Perspective on Agri Cooperatives
Agri Cooperatives to Achieve the SDGs: Experiences from the field
- Cooperative Movement Nepal
- CTCF Nepal
- Initiatives of SEWA in Agri Cooperatives
- Shree Vanlakshmi Mahila SEWA Cooperative Society
- Successful Agri Cooperatives in Nepal
- LAMAC Multi-Purpose Cooperative Philippines
- LAMAC Agri Enterprise Development Program
- Agri Cooperatives in ASEAN
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