Celebrating the Achievements of AFOSP-MTCP227 April 2020 | 3:00 PM Manila Time | Zoom & Facebook The ASEAN Farmers’ Organizations Support Programme (AFOSP) is a capacity-building program aimed at improving the livelihoods and food security situation of smallholder farmers and rural producers in ASEAN countries. Its objective is for ASEAN farmers organizations to evolve into […]
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 […]
When COVID-19 broke out, many jobs were stopped, except food production, which could not be halted. Food is an essential service, and farmers and food producers kept working amid the threat of the virus. However, farmers are among the least recognized in this time of the pandemic, at times taken for granted despite their important […]