Rome, Italy, June 26, 2020 –The 2020 edition of the World Farmers' Organisation General Assembly takes home a huge success! Farmers' leaders from WFO Member Organisations across the globe have given their seal of approval for "The Farmers' Route to [...]
Rome, Italy, June 26, 2020 –Today, the General Assembly, the highest decision-making body of the World Farmers’ Organisation (WFO), convened digitally to elect the new members of the Board of Directors. Joining the Board of Directors are Ms Mary Robinson, as [...]
On the occasion of the 2020 Desertification and Drought Day, on June 17th, the WFO Secretary General, Arianna Giuliodori, was invited to attend the webinar on "RECSOIL: Recarbonization of global soils". Increased soil organic carbon has been identified as one [...]
Today, the Secretary General of the World Farmers' Organisation (WFO), was invited to join forest and farm producer organisations (FFPOs) at the web conference "Multidimensional Resilience - Smallholder Producers and Farmers Managing Risks", hosted by Food and Forest Development Finland [...]
On July 3rd, farmers' representatives from all over the world will convene digitally to share their thoughts and considerations, as well as experiences and lessons learnt during the pandemic outbreak. The recent outbreak of Covid-19 is putting unprecedented pressure on [...]
In the framework of the partnership with the International Seed Federation (ISF), the President, Theo de Jager, and the Treasurer, Arnold Puech D'Alissac, of the World Farmers' Organisation (WFO) joined on June 9th the ISF Virtual Congress, bringing the farmers' [...]
Further to the successful first webinar that signed the kick-off of the 3-year exchange program “Transitional Agriculture“, on June 3rd, project participants convened digitally for a second pre-seminar. The event explored how logistics influence the marketing of agricultural products, [...]
On May 28th, Theo de Jager, president of the World Farmers' Organisation, joined as a speaker the virtual event "COVID-19, Flattening the Food Insecurity Curve in Africa", hosted by the World Trade Organisation within the "Trade Dialogues on Food" initiative. [...]
On May 27th, elected representatives, especially youth representatives, from the WFO farmers' organisations NASFAM (Malawi), INGABO (Rwanda), ZFU (Zimbabwe), COFAG (Ghana), AKKOR (Russia) and DBV (Germany) convened digitally to join the first pre-seminar of the project "Transitional Agriculture". This first [...]
Further to the announcement last week of the new partnership between the World Farmers'Organisation (WFO) and Nuffield International, on May 27th the WFO Secretary General, Arianna Giuliodori, joined as guest speaker a one-off webinar hosted by Nuffield International. The audience [...]