Category: Commodities

We are happy to share the 2024 Directory of Farmers’ Organizations under the APFP-FO4A and ARISE Programs. This directory contains the brief profiles of partner farmers’ organizations and agricultural cooperatives under the Asia-Pacific Farmers’ Program, which is financed by the International Fund for  Agricultural Development (IFAD) and implemented by the consortium Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural […]
The Aliansi Petani Indonesia (API) adheres to the Islamic concept of investment sharing, where 40% of the net income is returned to the “investor” (in this case, the mother federation, API) and 60% goes back to the member organization.  Concretely, the Metro Fish Marine group, which received USD 20,000 as BP support from APFP-FO4A through […]
Land ownership among women farmers in India remains a complex and challenging issue. Although women play a significant role in agriculture, their ownership and control over land and other productive resources are limited. Farmers have been consistently losing cultivable lands to factory set-ups or construction lobbyists and brokers. There have been cases of selling of lands […]