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Travelling journal goes to Cambodia
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15 May 2013
Media Update
After successfully passing through the hands of a Chinese farmer, the travelling journal now makes its way to the Damnak Kantourt commune in the Kampot province of Cambodia. The next rural woman to be writing entries in the journal is 56 year-old Chey Siyat, a leader of a village-based farmer association and a mother of five. [read more]
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Travelling journal goes to China
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19 April 2013
Media Update
After successfully passing through the hands of an Indonesian farmer, the travelling journal now makes its way to the agricultural village of Chenguan in the Yunnan Province of China. The next rural woman to be writing entries in the journal is Li Zizhen, a leader who splits her time between agricultural work, work for a women's union, and raising a family. [read more]
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Travelling journal goes to Indonesia
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10 April 2013
Press Release
After successfully passing through the hands of a woman rice farmer in Central Luzon, Philippines, the travelling journal is now making its second stop in West Java, Indonesia. Our Stories, One Journey: Empowering Rural Women in Asia will collect everyday writings from eight rural women in different countries to give a personalised voice to a growing clamor to transform agriculture into a more equitable and sustainable system. The initiative is led by Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific, Asian Rural Women's Coalition, and Oxfam's East Asia GROW Campaign. [read more]
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'Travelling journal' of Asian rural women to bring marginalised voices into food and agriculture policy debate
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8 March 2013
Press Release
Amid much excitement, Our Stories, One Journey: Empowering Rural Women in Asia was launched in the Philippines today as part of a global campaign to achieve food security through a more equitable and sustainable system of growing food. The travelling journal is an initiative by the Asian Rural Women's Coalition (ARWC), Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific (PAN AP), and Oxfam International's GROW Campaign, together with partner women and rural organisations in eight countries. [read more]
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PAN AP jumpstarts the "Women Reclaim our Seeds!" campaign
22 May 2013
(Penang, Malaysia) - On the occasion of the International Day for Biological Diversity, Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific (PAN AP) launches its campaign with the theme "Women Reclaim our Seeds" to celebrate the inspiring diversity and knowledge on seeds in the hands of women. [read more]
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Intervention of the Civil Society Mechanism on the importance of consultations
18 October 2012, Rome, Italy
My name is Magimai Appakuti of Tamil Nadu Dalit Women's Movement in India and of the Asian Rural Women's Coalition (ARWC). I speak as part of the Civil Society Mechanism (CSM). I am a member of a women farmers' group doing collective farming. [read more]
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Asian Rural Women's Coalition (ARWC) joins the 5th International Day of Rural Women in 2012 and expresses our solidarity to the relentless struggle of rural and indigenous women in Asia!
12 October 2012
The ARWC is committed to the development of a movement of women peasants, agricultural women workers, indigenous women, Dalit women, nomads, fisherfolk, informal and formal workers, migrants and advocates calling for rural women's rights, empowerment and liberation! [read more]
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Women and Food Sovereignty - The future we shall fight for in Rio and beyond
PAN AP, AMIHAN and ARWC Statement
June 2012
Twenty years ago, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio, Brazil (also known as the Earth Summit) led to the forging of historic commitments from governments around the world to save the planet. This June, the Rio+20 Summit is being held to assess how much of the Earth Summit's goals have been achieved, and to define measures that will chart the path towards sustainable development. [read more]
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