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

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 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

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

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

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 • on 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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