Franck Viault of the EU Delegation to ASEAN presented a brief on the AFOSP program at the 37th AMAF Meeting at the Manila Peninsula Hotel in Makati City, Philippines last September 10. “The ASEAN Farmers Organizations Support Program is 15 million from the EU and 1 million from IFAD, and it supports ASEAN regional integration through the […]
In a presentation at the 37th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Agriculture and Forestry (AMAF) at the Peninsula Hotel in Makati City, Philippines last September 10, Hoonae Kim of IFAD Asia Pacific highlighted the importance of smallholders who produce 80% of the food in Asia. She said that, “Majority of investments are coming from the smallholders. What we international finance institutions and […]
Growing vegetables and crops during the off-season (between October and March) has been a major issue for many farmers across the Pacific region. It is in these off-season months, the production of temperate vegetables such as tomatoes, capsicum, English cabbage, lettuces, watermelon and such are strongly hampered by high rainfall and high temperatures. At a […]