At the initiative of the Permanent Centre of Initiatives for the Environment, (EIPC) (Theatre Foirail Chemillé (TFC) and Mauges (Regional Committee for Agricultural Development (CRDA) – the Local Chamber of Agriculture, a series of meetings were conducted in March and April 2013 and continue on the theme of Sustainable Food production.

India 2014 International Farmers Dialogue's Report. International Farmers Dialogue was held at Asia Plateau, Panchgani co-hosted by Punjab Rao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola and Grampari, Initiatives of Change.

The team of Farmers’ Dialogue in DR Congo has been active in 2014. It organized and participated in various functions both locally and beyond. The chairman attended an innovation fair at which he presented the fruits of FD work on food production. Earlier on Claude Bourdin of FDI visited the laboratory of CRSN during one of his visits.

Training in Kenya in bamboo production and marketing and training a lady from DR Congo to improve her livelihood and the livelihood of other women in her country.

This report of Farmers' Dialogue activities was presented by Hajji Ssebalu Jamil, Coordinator of the African Farmers’ Dialogue, during the AGM of the African Farmers' Dialogue held near Nyahururu in Kenya on 7 November 2012.

Sixty farmers from Southern Ukraine met from March 5th to 9th in Krynychky, 100 kms from Dnepropetrovsk, to address factors that limit agricultural production in their country.

107 farmers from 13 countries met in Western Kenya for an East African Farmers’ Dialogue, to plan how to take farming beyond subsistence to feeding the continent. Presentations at the Dialogue demonstrated that Africa has the resources, both technical and human, within its borders to feed its people and lift the continent out of poverty.

At the recent food conference in Bologna, Claude Bourdin from France spoke about the work of IofC's Farmers' Dialogue in bringing perspectives from the world's largest industry to the task of feeding the world.

Genetic engineering, fair trade, pesticides and health, the environment and world hunger: behind our plate of food is a hidden world to think about. From 9–12 October, farmers, consumers and scientists from 11 European countries did just that, meeting in the Italian city of Castel San Pietro, near Bologna.

You can now download our latest newsletter giving news of the November Farmers' Dialogue held in France