When COVID-19 broke out, many jobs were stopped, except food production, which could not be halted. Food is an essential service, and farmers and food producers kept working amid the threat of the virus. However, farmers are among the least recognized in this time of the pandemic, at times taken for granted despite their important […]
Our partnership with the Lao Farmer Network (LFN) in Lao PDR started in 2014, and since then, the farmers’ organization has achieved a lot of accomplishments with the support of MTCP2-AFOSP. The following are among these achievements: facilitating cross-learning between Lao farmers and farmers’ organizations (FO) in other counties FOs gaining skills on organizational management, […]
In 1994, a community in Kyawhgulay village, Danu Self Administered Zone, Ywangan Township, Shan State, Myanmar established a village conservation forest (CF). The applied for registration in 2003-2004 and was granted a certificate for 130 acres of land in 2005. They applied for certification for the second time and was granted a total of 1300 […]