I am Nguyen Thi Diep, born in 1990. I am the Vice Chairwoman of the farmers’ union in Tien Phong commune, Thai Binh city, Thai Binh province, Vietnam. Change is necessary for development and it contributes to building the country. But with rapid and strong urbanization, land is becoming increasingly narrow. The land is divided, […]
This story is written by the editorial staff of the EU-ASEAN Blue Book 2021 As the eldest daughter of a farmer, Ti Chia Pan grew up helping her parents grow bananas and vegetables in the village of Nanphalong, Temu, at the border between Myanmar and India. Her experience in the field gave her first-hand insight […]
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, […]