Peasants in Thailand have been affected by chronic problems of poverty and hardships production caused by landlessness, land rights violation, grabbing of agrarian resources including land, water, forest, and seeds, increasing prices of production inputs, unstable crop prices, inaccessibility to markets, exploitation by the middlemen, contract farming, debts, inaccessibility of state welfare, unsafe working condition, […]
The Assembly of the Poor (AOP) is a nationwide grassroots movement for peasants’ rights. AOP members are mostly peasant groups with several worker unions. AOP is a member of La Via Campesina in the Southeast and East Asia Region. Due to their difficult economic situation, the majority of the members still practice conventional agriculture. Although […]
The consortium Asian Farmers Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) and La Via Campesina is currently implementing the Asia-Pacific Farmers’ Program (APFP), a five-year program supported by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) aimed at strengthening farmers organizations in 23 countries in Asia-Pacific (see Annex 1: APFP Project Brief). The consortium AFA/LVC is implementing […]