What do farmers need to address their main concerns and needs in the context of agricultural trade? Yesterday, April 8, WFO farmers’ organisations’ representatives from Russia (AKKOR), Germany (DBV), Malawi (NASFAM), Zimbabwe (ZFU), Rwanda (INGABO), and Ghana (COFAG) met digitally [...]
WFO Secretary General brings the farmers’ voice into the WTO debate on agricultural trade. Last Thursday, April 1, the Secretary General of the World Farmers’ Organisation (WFO), Arianna Giuliodori, addressed a special edition of the WTO Trade Dialogues on Food, [...]
WFO President met the International Young Farmers of Argentina Last week, the President of the World Farmers’ Organisation (WFO), Theo de Jager, met digitally a delegation of the International Young Farmers of Argentina, including the WFO Gymnasium Alumna Agustina Diaz [...]
Farmers’ needs and expectations around “New, Improved Plant Varieties” for enhanced sustainability. WFO launched this week an online consultation to the farmers to explore their needs, constraints, and expectations on New, Improved Plant Varieties*. The survey aims at directly and [...]
“Farmers need to be seen as agents of change to improve agricultural resilience,” stated Dr Betty Chinyamunyamu, CEO of the National Smallholder Farmers’ Association of Malawi (NASFAM), representing the World Farmers’ Organisation (WFO) at "Building Food and Water Security in an Era of Climate Shocks", the Independent Food [...]
The series of seminars of the 3-year exchange program "Transitional Agriculture" continues. This week marked the start of the second year of the project "Transitional Agriculture" activities. On 18 March, WFO farmers’ organisations' representatives from Russia (AKKOR), Germany (DBV), Malawi [...]
On 9 February, the President of the World Farmers’ Organisation (WFO) Theo de Jager and Abdelmajid Ezzar, President, Union Tunisine de l’Agriculture et de la Peche (UTAP) and WFO Board Member for Africa, addressed the event “Listen Up: Engaging Farmers [...]
Within the framework of the 47th Plenary Session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS 47) convening virtually next 8-11 February, we are happy to inform you that the World Farmers’ Organisation (WFO) will be co-hosting together with [...]
On January 27, farmers’ representatives whose organisations are partners in the Transitional Agriculture project met in a digital Advisory Board meeting to exchange about 2020 achievements of the project and brainstorm about 2021 activities. WFO was represented by President Theo [...]
Rome, January 28, 2021 – Today the World Farmers’ Organisation (WFO) hosted the first virtual meeting of the recently established “WFO Task Force for the UN Food Systems Summit”, created to support the Organization in the implementation of the Policy [...]