Wamti is a national farmers and fishers society organization establhished in 1994 in java, Indonesia. As a national farmers org, wamti has 48 chpter all around the country. Since 2007 member of ifap and now affiliated with wfo World farmers org. The main objective of wamti is to advocate the…
Senior Scientist at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) based in Bogor, Indonesia. Leader of a Research Domain at CIFOR on managing the impacts of globalized trade and investment on forest and forest communities. Coordinator of Component 5 “Impacts of Trade and Investment on…
Robert Nasi is born in 1959 in Nice. He graduated as a forest engineer from the French National Forestry School and achieved a PhD in the field of ecology from the University of Paris Sud – Orsay. Since 1982 he has been living and travelling extensively in Africa, Asia and the Pacific undertaking…
The Network for Knowledge Transfer on Sustainable Agricultural Technologies and Improved Market Linkages in South and Southeast Asia (SATNET) implemented by the Centre for Alleviation of Poverty through Sustainable Agriculture (CAPSA) facilitates knowledge transfer through development of a…
For millennia communities of farmers, herders, fishers, and forest people have developed complex, diverse, and locally-adapted agricultural systems. These systems have been managed with time-tested, ingenious techniques and practices that have led to community food security, the conservation…
With the support of the Asian Farmers Association and the Global Forum on Agricultural Research, Don and Gaspar from API, an Indonesia farmer organization, Nikka, Esther and Jonathan from PAKISAMA, a Philippines farmer organization and Sonali, Sudhir and Manoj from INHERE, a local…
Blog by Robin Bourgeois, Senior Foresight Advisor, GFAR Secretariat
What do the people from the Boru community of Flores in Indonesia, from South Palawan in the Philippines and from the Kumaun and Garhwal region, Uttarakhand in the Central Himalaya in India have in common? They all have a…
Source: IFAD
IFAD has issued a call for proposals for grant-funded projects designed to empower indigenous peoples' communities in rural areas. The grants will be provided through IFAD's Indigenous Peoples Assistance Facility (IPAF), established in 2007 to foster development in the…