Progress towards GFAR MTP FO Constituency- AFA Esther Penunia, - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Progress towards GFAR MTP FO Constituency- AFA Esther Penunia, Secretary General GFAR Steering Committee/ April 8, 2014 /Montpellier, France AFA - introduction Members : 15 national FOs, 12 countries, 12m women and men members 9 point

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Progress towards GFAR MTP FO Constituency- AFA

Esther Penunia, Secretary General GFAR Steering Committee/ April 8, 2014 /Montpellier, France

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AFA - introduction

  • Members : 15 national FOs, 12 countries, 12m women and

men members

  • 9 point peasant agenda
  • Membership in following networks which we can mobilize for

shaping AR4D agenda :

  • -steering comm, FaFo (IfAD)
  • --MTCP2 on FO Capacity Building ( IFAD, SDC)
  • --Prolinnova Oversight Board
  • --CSO Asia rep in GAFSP
  • --WEF Global Agenda Council on Food Security
  • ---CSO WCC for IYFF in the ISC of IYFF
  • -member, SUN
  • --FO rep in APAARI
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Specific for MTP

  • 1.1, 1.2 Commitment for foresight exercises
  • --consultation on ways to build happy, healthy, empowered family

farming communities ; expression of interest to handle GFAR foresight activities in Asia

  • 2.2 Strengthen empower women farmers in the region
  • -consultation on women in agriculture, Asian level ; focused on women’s

innovations on food and nutrition security

  • 2.3 Partiicipatory seed breeding and national policies on

farmers’ rights and proper implementation of this.

  • -seed exchange, community based food/seed reserves
  • 3.1 sustainable and inclusive, more farmer-led and farmer

managed agro-based enterprises

  • -researches on good practices on marketing arrangements, capacity

building on enterprise development

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Specific for MTP

  • 3.3 Agri Innovation for farmers
  • -joint planning and resource mob with Prolinnova and APAARI for Asian

Farmers Innovation Day ; farmers exchange visits and knowledge sharing

  • 5.2 Policies to attract youth in agriculture
  • national meetings on youth in agri; regional meeting for policy sharing

and recommendations; initial contact with YPARD to link AFA youth arm

  • Policies to Land rights
  • -case studies on land –related problems, eval of land laws with gender

lens, submitted proposal to manage Land Matrix of ILC and its partners

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Our research priorities

  • Focused sustainable, resilient, integrated, diversified, organic and

economically viable agriculture for and with small-scale women and men farmers – quantification of impact

  • Technical assistance in monitoring the climate variations and information
  • n early warning systems well in advance, in order to have better planning

ahead of time.

  • Strengthening links between research, advisory and extension services;

strengthening partnerships between research institutions, extension workers and organizations of smallholder farmers : farmer-farmer extension highlighted

  • Strategies to empower women farmers as they participate in collective

farming and marketing, cooperatives information dissemination/ICT, value addition meeting certification rqts, value addition

LEARN BY DOING, PARTICIPATORY APPROACHES, FARMERS AS SCIENTISTS AND EXTENSION AGENTS

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THANK YOU