BACKGROUND In 2020, the consortium Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) and La Via Campesina (LVC) through the ASEAN Farmers’ Organisation Support Programme (AFOSP) – Asia-Pacific Farmers’ Program (APFP) platform conducted the “Young Farmers Dance Challenge” with the following objectives: 1) to attract young people to join Farmers Organizations; 2) to build friendship […]
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, farmers organizations (FOs) in the Asia-Pacific region continue food production. See the overview of FOs responses and activities in this infographic:
Peasants in Thailand have been affected by chronic problems of poverty and hardships production caused by landlessness, land rights violation, grabbing of agrarian resources including land, water, forest, and seeds, increasing prices of production inputs, unstable crop prices, inaccessibility to markets, exploitation by the middlemen, contract farming, debts, inaccessibility of state welfare, unsafe working condition, […]