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Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor, July 1999

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FARMNET Asia
The Farmer-centred Agricultural Resource Management (FARM) Programme for Asia was launched in 1993 as a five-year programme (1993-1998). The participating countries are: China, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam. The programme has successfully demonstrated that it can bring the farm households to the centre of decision making. The approach also builds the capacity of farm households to collectively access, decide, plan, implement, manage and be responsible for their own development on a continued 'doing and learning process'. The approach includes the cooperation and collaboration of government and non-governmental organizations with the farm communities. FARM Asia has come to a close after October 1998. On 25 September 1998, at the end of the Third FARM Forum in Hanoi (Vietnam) FARMNET Asia was born.
FARMNET Asia is to continue collaboration and networking among the eight countries. It is an open network. Membership is open to countries, institutions and organizations both government and non-governmental. At the Third FARM forum a Work Plan was drafted consisting of commitments made by the individual countries of FARMNET Asia will do and of collective commitments. One of these commitments is to publish FARMNET Asia News, a quarterly publication to disseminate news and information and keep the networking linkage going.
For more information, contact:
FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, 39, Phra Atit Road, Bangkok, 10200 Thailand.
Tel.: +662-281-7844 Ext. 192.
Fax: +662-280-0445.
E-mail: Deomampo.Narciso@fao.org