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31 March – 4 April 2025 • Ha Noi, Viet Nam

Highlights

The third Agroecology TPP Members Forum was held in Ha Noi, Viet Nam and was co-organized with the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) and the ASSET project and its partners (CIRAD, IPSARD, VAAS, NIAS, GRET). This was instrumental to address key issues related to the advancement of agroecology in ASEAN countries, as well as to ensure that farmers remain at the forefront in the knowledge co-creation process fostered by the Agroecology TPP.

Report and documents

The event brought together Government and local authorities, farmer organizations, NGOs and researchers and was a valuable space to support learning, foster collaboration, and promote the exchange of knowledge and ideas.

Detailed descriptions of sessions that involved dialogue and/or participatory elements can be read in the Annual Members Forum Meeting 2025 Report. For the participatory working sessions, the Report includes the verbatim, detailed, and systematized feedback from participants.

All documents from the event (speeches, presentations, print-outs, etc.) can be browsed and downloaded in the Knowledge Products section below.

A full YouTube playlist video of all the sessions is also available.

Annual Members Forum 2025 Report
Opening Speech, Nguyen Do Anh Tuan
Farmers’ Organization Statement

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Field Visits

On the third day, participants were divided into 2 groups, for different Field Visits. Group 01 went to the Hoa Binh Province to visit the Dong Suong Cooperative, the Homestead of Mr. Lý Sinh Toàn and the Phuc Tam An Medicine Production Team. Group 02 went to the Thai Nguyen province and visited the Dzung Tan farm and the Junozd farm, and ended the trip to the Thai Nguyen University of Agriculture and Forestry (TUAF). For more info, download the brochure.

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Testimonials

  • Agroecology offers a pathway to address food security issues, increase agro-biodiversity, build healthy agricultural ecosystems, secure livelihoods and, most importantly, contribute to a transparent and sustainable food system transition
    Nguyen Do Anh Tuan (Director General of International Cooperation, Ministry of Agriculture and Environment Vietnam)
  • Family farmers are not just food producers but knowledge producers and solution providers
    Jonjon Sarmiento (Farmer, PAKISAMA)
  • We encourage everyone to use co-creation approaches with farmer organizations, because we know that when researchers, scientists and farmers work together, we can achieve something at scale
    Ma. Esterella Penunia (Secretary-General of Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development)
  • Agroecology is not only related to farmers, ministers or scientists, it is related to the whole society, the consumers are also very important, so we need more communication among all parties
    Dr. Dao The Anh (Vietnamese Academy of Agricultural Sciences)
  • What we want is farmer-led research that builds on the enormous knowledge of farmers, and to use that knowledge to develop new and innovative practices
    Babafemi O. Oyewole (Panafrican Farmers’ Organization)
  • There are lots of things we can do differently in terms of making research results findings accessible and useful to individuals, and that sort of tailored use of knowledge is important in agroecology
    Fergus Sinclair (Emeritus Professor and Agroecology TPP Co-convenor)
  • We are amidst another major agricultural transformation, and the lead is knowledge. The co-creation of knowledge is a game changer, we need to work together to make co-creation work, to break even as a planet and society through agroecology
    Michael Hauser (Vienna's University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria)
  • To create outcomes and impact, what means something to me as a researcher is less important. What matters is what means something to the farmers, the policymaker, the private sector whose behaviors we would like to change based on existing evidence
    Matthias Geck (CIFOR-ICRAF Agroecological Systems Scientist and Agroecology TPP Coordinator)
  • There’s a need for an integrated approach. Successful implementation of agroforestry requires a combination of technical, educational and financial support, as well as the active involvement of local communities
    Sairagul Tazhibaeva (Kyrgyz Association of Forest and Land Users)
  • Financing is a cross-cutting issue in agroecology, we need to have new partners who can contribute to the agroecology transition, it cannot just be the governments or researchers, we need the private sector, we need banks, we need innovative sources of financing
    Andrew Barlett (Agroecology and Safe Food System Transitions)
  • The TPP is you. If you want it to grow and to do things differently, let's do it together
    Bernard Triomphe (AE-TPP Co-convenor, CIRAD)
  • Agroecology principles are increasingly being mentioned as part of the elements needed to drive the climate ambition
    Imelda Bacudo (ASEAN Climate Resilient Network)
  • The Transformative Partnership Platform globally I think is extremely important, but at the regional level the TPP is very new, so there's a strong added value for that
    Dr Estelle Biénabe (Senior Agricultural Economist and Scientific Coordinator - ASSET Project)

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