Farmers organizations’ under the Asia-Pacific Farmers’ Forum platform Aliansi Petani Indonesia (API) (Indonesia), Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) (India), COAST Foundation (Bangladesh), Pambansang Katipunan ng mga Samahan sa Kanayunan (PKSK) (Philippines), Federation of Community Forestry Users Nepal (FECOFUN) (Nepal), and Kastom Garden Association (Solomon Islands) embarked on a community radio project initiated by the FAO […]
PIFON, the implementing agency of APFP in the Pacific Islands devised a survey to identify what COVID-19’s current impacts were for farmers and farmer organizations, and what impacts they expected moving forward. This survey recognized that the impact of COVID-19 had not spared any country in the Pacific and beyond, and that impacts likely differed […]
A SARS-like virus COVID-19 (formally known as 2019-nCoV) has emerged over three months since its outbreak in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China. As of 26 June 2020, over 84,000 people in China had contracted the coronavirus. The pandemic has severely affected the economy of China. On 4 March 2020, the State Council released a circular […]