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For the past eight years APHD has been working with NGO Partners andlike-minded groups to disseminate knowledge on sustainable agriculture techniques. Through the Southeast Asia Sustainable Agriculture Program support has been provided towards strengthening farmer's networks for the promotion of sustainable agriculture techniques that are both economically viable and socially just. An integral part of the Program has been the Annual SEA Farmers' Conferences.
Beginning in Chiang Mai, Thailand in 1995, these Conferences have provided the main forum to pursue the Program's objectives. Issues tackled include; product marketing, integrated farming and the effective use of micro-organisms. The Conferences have alsofacilitated the creation of a community seed bank and the exchange of seeds from traditional rice varieties. Exposure tours held during the Conferences allow participants to see sustainable agriculture techniques in use. During this year's Conference, held in Bangkok, a Regional Plan of Action for the coming year was developed. The plan allows for increased training on areas like pest and disease management, further assistance to community-based farmers and advocacy for farmer's rights.
Beginning in Chiang Mai, Thailand in 1995, these Conferences have provided the main forum to pursue the Program's objectives. Issues tackled include; product marketing, integrated farming and the effective use of micro-organisms. The Conferences have alsofacilitated the creation of a community seed bank and the exchange of seeds from traditional rice varieties. Exposure tours held during the Conferences allow participants to see sustainable agriculture techniques in use. During this year's Conference, held in Bangkok, a Regional Plan of Action for the coming year was developed. The plan allows for increased training on areas like pest and disease management, further assistance to community-based farmers and advocacy for farmer's rights.
Activities in Sustainable Agriculture
Caritas Cambodia
As a member of the APHD Sustainable Agriculture and Farmers’ Rights Program (SAFaR), partner Caritas Cambodia works to build initiatives for poor, marginalized, smallscale farmers to assert their rights for human... 
SAFaR in Myanmar
APHD provides financial backing to Karuna Myanmar’s SANReM
Sustainable Agriculture at Caritas Sri Lanka (SEDEC)
Activities carried out for the year 2006
The Solution to World Hunger?
Advocates of genetic engineering (GE) have perpetuated massive campaigns promoting genetically modified organisms (GMOs) as a likely solution to world hunger.
GMOs and Human Health
A GMO or genetically modified organism is one whose natural genetic material has been modified by having synthetic genetic material inserted into it.
Mabuhay Sustainable Agriculture
The Catholic Diocese of Butuan is located in the northeastern part of the southern island of Mindanao, the second largest island in the Philippines.
A Community Comes Alive
"We cannot plant much because there are still plenty of land mines in our area," uttered one of the villagers in Samlot District in northwestern Cambodia.
Unite for strength, Sus-Ag farmers told
In the David and Goliath-like showdown that is sustainable agriculture versus big-money bio-tech agriculture, the small farmer in South can still succeed against the giant of globalization – despite the odds.
Preaching salvation in Sustainable Agriculture
In the David and Goliath-like showdown that is sustainable agriculture versus big-money bio-tech agriculture, the small farmer in South can still succeed against the giant of globalization – despite the odds.