Anissa Lucky Pratiwi, Indonesia Country Programme Facilitator, said that the IFAD will work more closely with farmer organizations in the country during a meeting last January 21 with representatives of farmer organizations in Southeast Asia and China who were in Jakarta for a training activity under the MTCP2 program. Following the example shared by Vietnam on FO […]
Kastom Gaden Association (KGA) was established as a charitable trust in 2000. It grew out of a five-year programme of an Australian NGO focussed on providing services to the subsistence and local market agriculture sector which encompassed the vast majority of the rural population. At the time this sector was poorly-serviced and poorly-recognised by government, […]
In a meeting of PIFON last January 29, Toilea Taholo of Tonga Growers Federation Inc. (TGA) shared her insights from the women entrepreneurship exposure program that she attended in India last year. “I was very impressed by how the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) promotes self-reliance among its members,” said Toilea. “SEWA targets very poor […]