#COVID19 shows that diseases know no borders. To win this battle, the Netherlands must invest in development cooperation, especially in global health. Sign the petition https://t.co/WlJADjZO9o
Good morning from Manila!! “Democracy, which depends on shared truths, is in retreat, and autocracy, which depends on shared lies, is on the march.” @SachaBaronCohen
ADVISORY | As forest fires continue to rage in Indonesia, the resulting haze also affects us here in Mindanao. Let us keep ourselves and our loved ones safe by following these ways to cope with haze.
Let us all help protect public health.
#CopeWithHaze
Today is the 32nd Death Anniversary of Lean Alejandro. May his ideals and principles continue to live in the hearts of all youth and student leaders. As Lean said, “In the line of fire, is the place of honor.”
A10. farmers need to have own enterprise to be effective partners of inclusive businesses. this collective enterprises need funding support from incubation until scale up phase #AgChat
A9. The agri-food sector is a 2.5 trillion Euro market. And we need to increase food production by 60%. Companies need to work with farmers majority of which are smallholders. There is money to be made in this sector. #AgChat
A7. @iccotweet In an LMD project in Kyrgyzstan, we organized core value chain actors in a program coalition and they meet once a month to discuss issues on the value chain and they collectively resolve them #AgChat
A6. @iccotweet we help farmers to establish collective enterprises; provide them training on how to run the enterprise, connect them to a trading partner and if needed to financial service provider #AgChat
A rural family in the Netherlands 130 years
ago. Then, farmers organized in cooperatives and farmer associations. They spurred the transformation into a modern economy with manufacture and services. Now, income is high, equally distributed and life is good. Farmers organize!