Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, farmers organizations (FOs) in the Asia-Pacific region continue food production. See the overview of FOs responses and activities in this infographic:
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, […]
Jiwanti Poudel, the Chairperson of Women Peasant Association (2015–), shares about her experiences leading women peasants and helping them enhance their economic and social status. During my tenure in the organization, the establishment of a cooperative involving women peasants makes me very proud among the different things done to enhance and strengthen the organization. Back […]