Location
AsiaDHRRA traces its earliest roots to the 1974 Development of Human Resources in Rural Asia Workshop (DHRRAW) held in Thailand. It is a regional partnership of eleven (11) social development networks and organizations in eleven (11) Asian nations that envisions Asian rural communities that are just, free, prosperous, living in peace and working in solidarity towards self-reliance. To achieve this, the network’s mission is to be an effective
- Promoter and catalyst of partnership relations, creating opportunities for genuine people-to-people dialogue and exchange;
- Facilitator of human resource development processes in the rural areas; and
- Mobilizer of expertise & opportunities for the strengthening of solidarity and kinship among Asian rural communities.
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Resources
Displaying 6 - 10 of 13Initiatives On Pro-Small Farmer Trade
Contents:
- The Seikatsu Club Consumers Cooperative: A Unique Producer-Consumer Relationship in Japan
- PDAP’s Push for Organic Rice: Enhancing the Survival of Filipino Rice Farmers in a Liberalized Economic
- Setting Green Net: A Trailblazer in Organic Marketing in Southeast Asia
- The Fair Trade System: Focus on the Oxfam-GB Model
- Emergency or Expediency?: A Study of Emergency Rice Reserve Schemes in Asia
Initiatives On Pro-Small Farmer Trade
Contents:
- The Seikatsu Club Consumers Cooperative: A Unique Producer-Consumer Relationship in Japan
- PDAP’s Push for Organic Rice: Enhancing the Survival of Filipino Rice Farmers in a Liberalized Economic
- Setting Green Net: A Trailblazer in Organic Marketing in Southeast Asia
- The Fair Trade System: Focus on the Oxfam-GB Model
- Emergency or Expediency?: A Study of Emergency Rice Reserve Schemes in Asia
Civil Society – Government Dialogue: Possibilities of Working Together for Fairer Agricultural Trade
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Land to the Tiller: Agrarian Reform STILL a vital strategy for development
Agrarian reform, or AR, is the redistribution of public and private agricultural lands, regardless of produce and tenurial arrangement, to landless farmers and regular farm workers, to include support services and other arrangements alternative to distribution of land such as production/profi t sharing, labor organization, or distribution of shares of stock.
The UN MDGs: An arena for advancing farmers’ rights?
During the Millennium Summit of the United Nations (UN) in September 2000, 147 Head of States and Governments and 191 member-states adopted the Millennium Declaration. The Declaration embodies structured development goals and targets. The adopting countries committed to achieve its targets to reduce poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women by 2015. Expert studies projected the resources required to attain the goals and what are expected to be available.