ROME, Italy – Sixteen representatives from nine farmer organizations under the MTCP2 Programme in Asia and the Pacific are in Rome for the Sixth Global Farmers’ Forum on 15-16 February 2016 at the IFAD headquarters. Represented farmer organizations include TRTC in the Pacific, BKF in Bangladesh, SEWA in India, ANPFa in Nepal, PAKISAMA in the […]
Issue related to rice import have in fact been discussed and debated since mid-2015. The issue was raised by government’s deliberation that el-nino and drought have made many commodity especially rice faced harvest failure. Delay in planting season and low absorption level by Bulog (National Logistic Agency of Indonesia) made rice stock in Bulog’s warehouse […]
Jakarta, November 2, 2015 – Indonesian Peasant Alliance (API) in cooperation with the Directorate of Staples and Strategic Goods of the Ministry of Commerce of the Republic of Indonesia (Bapokstra of Ministry of Commerce) has organized a Focus Group Discussion (FGD) entitled “The Effectiveness of the Current Policies on HPP of Paddy/Rice in the Coming […]