Almost 80% of the population in Laos PDR work in the agriculture sector, while approximately 50% of rural youths are also engaged in this sector (FAO). One of them is Phouttasone Phaengvilay (Noy), a twenty-four-year-old who has been involved in agribusiness since 2008. Agriculture is traditionally passed on from generation to generation, which is also […]
51ST ADB ANNUAL MEETING Civil Society Program The Role of Agricultural Cooperatives in Helping Reduce Poverty in Asia and the Pacific Learning with Partners (Asian Farmers’ Association, AgriTerra, and AsiaDHRRA) AFA, Agriterra, and AsiaDHRRA hold a learning session on the role of agricultural cooperatives in helping reduce poverty in Asia and the Pacific at the […]
Fifty participants, nine of whom are women, from various farmer Organizations (FOs) in Cambodia under the MTCP2 Program participated in the Rice Cooperative Forum: Coop-to-Coop Integration Model for Linking Farmers and Consumers in the Supply and Distribution Chain of Rice held at Phnom Penh Hotel on 24 March 2018. The forum was attended by representatives from Cambodia Rice Federation, […]