On 8 May 2020, the International Fund for Agricultural Development held a live webcast to discuss the impacts of COVID-19 on rural communities and small scale agriculture in developing countries, how they have already benefitted from IFAD’s resilience-building, and how IFAD is providing response and recovery efforts. The speakers were: Paul Winters, Associate Vice-President of […]
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 […]
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 […]