When MTCP2 was launched in Bangladesh, one of the focus group discussions took place in the district of Bhola, which looks out onto the Bay of Bengal. This is an area where farmers are regularly hit by foods and often sustain very expensive losses of seeds. Local farmers took the opportunity to tell their troubles […]
Representatives of five national farmer organization (FO) leaders meet in Wisma Stroberry, Ciwedey, Bandung, West Java, Indonesia to review the achievements of the MTCP2-AFOSP program in Indonesia, discuss updates from the recent SRSC/RSC meeting in Jogjakarta, and formulate a strategic partner/engagement with IFAD country and government in promoting agriculture development and rural economic growth. During […]
SRI LANKA – “We lost all our resources due to the war. Now we do not have jobs to earn money. Farming is our only source of livelihood–and out only alternative is ecological agriculture, which does not require money for inputs.” These are the words of a farmer in Vavuniya, in Northern Sri Lanka. He […]