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Farmers' Voices on Agricultural Land Investments

Multimedia
October, 2012
Asia
Land & Investments
extractive industries
farmers
Indigenous Peoples
land grabbing
land rights
tenure security
This video presents the experiences of small scale women and men farmers, fishers, and indigenous peoples with agricultural land investments and their impact on their lives and livelihoods.
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CSO Asia Representative Report

Multimedia
October, 2012
Asia
development agencies
farmers
farmers associations
CSO Asia Representative Report
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Asian Farmers Association Annual Report 2011

Institutional & promotional materials
January, 2012
Asia
farmers associations
In the area of Policy Advocacy, we aimed at influencing key inter-governmental regional and international decision-making bodies on common agricultural issues affecting small farmers.

We targeted various inter-government bodies, such as ASEAN (on the frameworks on food security and climate change, as well as FTAs), FAO, IFAD, UNFCCC (on climate financing for adaptation and mitigation), and WB (on the GAFSP project).
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Women and Men Farmers as Agents of Change on Gender Equality: Leadership Moments, Challenges and Enablers

Reports & Research
February, 2012
Asia
Land & Gender
farmers
gender equity in access to land
women
The Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Development (AFA) and Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (WOCAN) agreed to undertake an outcome-based evaluation of the ten provincial training activities conducted from May –December 2010, under a twoyear Rural Women’s Leadership Project (RWLP), supported by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) through the Government of Norway.
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Widening the Dialogue on Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in Asia: A Regional Paper

Reports & Research
October, 2012
Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines
Land & Investments
farmers
land deals
land grabbing
tenure security
AFA Cases on Large Scale Land Acquisition in Asia
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Land Grabs or Large Scale Land Investments? Protecting Farmers’ Rights to Land

Policy Papers & Briefs
March, 2012
Asia
Land & Investments
land deals
land grabbing
“Large scale land investments” and “land grabbing” are the terms most commonly used to describe the rising global trend where foreign and local agribusinesses, mining corporations, governments, and investment houses obtain long term rights over large areas of land. Perhaps the most famous of these is the attempt by the Daewoo Group of South Korea to lease 1.3 million hectares, or more than half of the productive agricultural lands of Madagascar, in Africa.