YOGYAKARTA, INDONESIA – On October 20, 2018, 84 farmer leaders from 21 countries, representing 38 million small scale farmers, fishers, indigenous peoples, herders and pastoralists, met with the 37 staff of the IFAD Asia and Pacific Region Division in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, for the first Asia Pacific Region Farmers Forum (FAFO). The Forum was held in […]
Lam Dong, Vietnam – Lam Dong Province in the Central Highland region of Vietnam has a lot of potential because of its advantages in nature, climate, and land suitable for agricultural development. One of the crops grown in the area is coffee. Coffee farmers in Lam Dong have a lot of experience in growing coffee, […]
Pacific Islands – Today, if you talk to farmers’ organisations, government agricultural officers or agricultural development practitioners in the Pacific, there is a good chance you are going to hear them talking about value chains. In fact, it is likely that you will also hear farmers, exporters, and agro-processors also discussing value chains. Value chains […]