SOUTHEAST ASIA REGIONAL INITIATIVES

FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT

Reciprocate Smallholder Farmers with Genuine Support, SEARICE Urged Delegates to the CGRFA 17

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INITIATIVES

FARMER EMPOWERMENT

SEARICE empowers farmers, encouraging them to be critical of their own strengths and weaknesses and enabling them to make decisions in a manner that protects and conserves natural resources.

POLICY ADVOCACY

SEARICE advocates for policies that uphold farmers'rights and recognize, support, strengthen, and institutionalize community initiatives on the conservation, development, and use of plant genetic resources.

CAPACITY BUILDING
Using participatory approaches, SEARICE helps build farmers’ research capacities for them to be recognized and respected as co-equals of scientists, plant breeders, and extension agents in the quest for agricultural biodiversity.

SEARICE’s Normita Ignacio Speaks at the CBD Cop 24 Agroecology Panel

SEARICE Statement at the 17th Session of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (CGRFA 17) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)

FARMERS' STORIES

Smallholder farmers are at the heart of SEARICE's work. They stand to suffer the most from, and bear the brunt of, climate change, food insecurity, and social injustice. They are among the most tested segments of the society, but they are also among the toughest. READ THEIR STORIES HERE.