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World Agricultures Watch targets end to “one size fits all” agricultural development
31 December 2018
31 December 2018
With the world needing to provide roughly 50 percent more food by 2050 – even as climate change, land degradation, watery scarcity and other challenges threaten productivity – it is clear that agricultural systems must transform.
The problem is that no “one size fits all solution” exists, despite current policy designs...
Fresh start for WAW
12 October 2018
12 October 2018
Currently, WAW team is at the reshaping process of the programme.
World Agriculture Watch is reshaping its programme to develop phased national projects in 21 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. In Asia, the pilot countries include Viet Nam, Indonesia and the Philippines, along with the three rubber-producing countries of...
WAW and Cambodia’s Ministry of Agriculture draft smallholder rubber-farming programme
28 September 2018
28 September 2018
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Ministry of Agriculture of Cambodia have teamed up to establish a project that will focus on lifting the living standards of smallholder rubber farmers in Cambodia, Myanmar and Thailand.
The two parties made public their plans at a project-outline...
On 24 May 2018, a one-day workshop on the production of data and knowledge on family farms was held in Bangkok, Thailand, bringing together farmers’ leaders from 17 national platforms in Asia. The workshop was organized by the Asian Farmers Association (AFA), together with World Agriculture Watch (WAW), Collectif Strategies Alimentaires...
Based on developments in the pilot countries and the support received from various networks, the World Agriculture Watch (WAW) Secretariat is developing concept notes and in talks with diverse stakeholders in a number of countries. In Africa, with WAW’s support, the “Réseau des Organisations Paysannes et de Producteurs de l’Afrique...