Five stories from AFOSP are featured in the 2020 edition of the EU-ASEAN Blue Book which was launched virtually on 8 May 2020 in time for Europe Day celebration of the EU delegation to the ASEAN. Cooperative Harmony Farmers in ASEAN Member States can benefit from regional integration when national agricultural cooperatives are aligned with […]
Yangon, Myanmar – Hitting two birds with one stone–is how we can describe this initiative of the Agriculture and Farmer Federation of Myanmar (AFFM) to help their members during this time of the COVID-19 pandemic. AFFM is the AFOSP partner farmers’ organization in Myanmar. AFFM, one of the sectorial affiliates of CTUM, has more than 528 Basic […]
MARIKINA CITY, PHILIPPINES – The lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic presented an opportunity for farmers groups/cooperatives in the Philippines to sell their produce directly to consumers. On 3 May 2020, with the help of PAKISAMA, one of AFOSP-APFP partner organizations in the Philippines, their member organization Kababaihang Dumagat ng Sierrra Madre (K-GAT), a start-up […]