• Contact: Thae Wint
  • Address: No. 384, Corner of Jasmine Lane and Konbaung Street, East Dagon Township, Yangon Region.
  • Members:
    AFFM

AFFM

Agriculture and Farmers Federation of Myanmar

2021

Member since

Working towards these commitments

Respect, protect and strengthen the land rights of women and men living in poverty, ensuring that no one is deprived of the use and control of the land on which their well-being and human dignity depend, including through eviction, expulsion or exclusion, and with compulsory changes to tenure undertaken only in line with international law and standards on human rights.
1

Secure Tenure Rights

Ensure equitable land distribution and public investment that supports small-scale farming systems, including through redistributive agrarian reforms that counter excessive land concentration, provide for secure and equitable use and control of land, and allocate appropriate land to landless rural producers and urban residents, whilst supporting smallholders as investors and producers, such as through cooperative and partnership business models.
2

Strong Small-Scale Farming Systems

Ensure that processes of decision-making over land are inclusive, so that policies, laws, procedures and decisions concerning land adequately reflect the rights, needs and aspirations of individuals and communities who will be affected by them. This requires the empowerment of those who otherwise would face limitations in representing their interests, particularly through support to land users' and other civil society organizations that are best able to inform, mobilize and legitimately represent marginalized land users, and their participation in multi-stakeholder platforms for policy dialogue.
7

Inclusive decision-making

Ensure transparency and accountability, through unhindered and timely public access to all information that may contribute to informed public debate and decision-making on land issues at all stages, and through decentralization to the lowest effective level, to facilitate participation, accountability and the identification of locally appropriate solutions
8

Transparent and accessible information

Prevent and remedy land grabbing, respecting traditional land use rights and local livelihoods, and ensuring that all large-scale initiatives that involve the use of land, water and other natural resources comply with human rights and environmental obligations and are based on: the free, prior and informed consent of existing land users; a thorough assessment of economic, social, cultural and environmental impacts with respect to both women and men; democratic planning and independent oversight; and transparent contracts that respect labour rights, comply with social and fiscal obligations and are specific and binding on the sharing of responsibilities and benefits. Where adverse impacts on human rights and legitimate tenure rights have occurred, concerned actors should provide for, and cooperate in, impartial and competent mechanisms to provide remedy, including through land restitution and compensation.
9

Effective actions against land grabbing

Respect and protect the civil and political rights of human rights defenders working on land issues, combat the stigmatization and criminalisation of peaceful protest and land rights activism, and end impunity for human rights violations, including harassment, threats, violence and political imprisonment
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Protected land rights defenders

Mission

AFFM represents the needs and rights of its members through:
- Organising and strengthening Farmers’ Associations and Trade Unions.
- Expanding linkages with other organisations (e.g. CTUM and AFA).
- Facilitating services for members that support: Improved agriculture production and agricultural skills; Access to legal protection services and the realisation of farmers’& farm workers’ rights.
- Lobby agreements with national and local authorities and employers for a sustainable and fair economy.

Objectives

1. To build up solidarity among small farmers by exercising our right to freedom
2. To form free and independent, democratic farmers unions which will protect and promote
the rights and interest of small farmers.
3. To promote living standards and livelihood of small farmers.
4. To promote the rights of farmers which are prescribed in the existing farmers related laws
and to achieve international standards.
5. To develop modernized farming for the intention of producing high qualities products.
6. To produce commodities for food security of the people and sell them to the fair market for
fair price.
7. To establish collective producing and collective market.
8. To organize young generation and women so that they shall have the right to contribute their
inputs in the agriculture development.
9. To establish universal social protection scheme for small farmers, especially for the farmers
affected by natural disasters.
10. To achieve gender equality for female farmers in the agricultural sector.
11. To build up solidarity with farmers from International Community.
12. To preserves environment.
13. To exercise right to democracy within farmers unions.

Constituencies

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  • Contact: Thae Wint
  • Address: No. 384, Corner of Jasmine Lane and Konbaung Street, East Dagon Township, Yangon Region.
  • Members:
    AFFM