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Impact of
financial crisis
to small scale
men and
women farmers
in SEA
countries
Mr. Mudzakkir
Vice Chairperson, AFA
Agri ‘s vital role in food, livelihood
security and poverty alleviation
• GDP contribution: 10.1 (Thailand-32.9%
(Cambodia)
• Agri is source of basic food of ASEAN people
• Significant number of people in rural areas
• Majority in rural areas engaged in agriculture
• Small scale men and women farmers form
majority of poor in many ASEAN countries.
Our understanding of
financial crisis
• The crisis originated in USA
• Due to unregulated financial
markets
• Happened during food crisis and
climate change effects
• Significantly caused by excessive
speculation in the commodities
markets
Effects of financial crisis
• Demand for traditional export agri
products dropped
• Food price volatility
• Problems with contract farming
• Less income, high food prices and
high price of inputs
• Migrant workers out of jobs too
How do we cope?
• Educate farmers about economic
household management
• Ensure men and women farmers’
security to land, water, seeds resources
• Practice diversified, sustainable
agriculture , in a “self sufficiency
approach”
• Organize commodity based clusters for
cooperative production and marketing
of safe, organic products
Main recommendations
• Identify key social protection measures
for farmers and put adequate resources
to implement them
• Increased investments for the
production and marketing of sustainable
agri crops owned, controlled, managed
by small men and women farmers
• Increased partnership between farmers,
NGOs, government organizations
thank you for listening