Details are being finalized forMobilizing the GFN in Support of a Resilient Agri-Food System” lub Lub ob hlis ntuj 5-11 roundtable and communication training program to be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The group will also travel to Rosario, visiting farms and ag businesses along the way.

At the event, emphasis and key is ‘mobilization’ – the action word that drives who we are and why Global Farmer Network (GFN) members will come to Argentina. Training is an available track but the emphasis is on the knowledge transfer of GFN members through listening, panels, and agri-business tours.

The vision and goal is to bring together and connect GFN membership to share their recent challenges and opportunities experienced, to identify commonalities, and determine a unifying, common message that recognizes agriculture’s role in attaining food security as part of the solution to the main challenges faced by humanity.
  • Showcasing the diversity of GFN membership, farmer-members are traveling from these countries to connect, share and mobilize: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Czech koom pheej, Denmark, Lub teb chaws Yelemees, Honduras, Is Nrias teb, Ireland, Ltalis, Mexico, Netherlands, Lub tebchaws New Zealand, Tebchaws Nigeria, Philippines, Poland, Puerto Rico, Ukraine, Meskas, Uruguay, and more as visas are approved.
  • At the same time, a new cohort of farmers will join in stimulating roundtable discussion and take part in communication training. GFN is welcoming farmers from: Canada, Ltalis, Nyiv, Mexico, Tebchaws Nigeria, Philippines, Puerto Rico, UAE, United States and more as visas are approved.

Pilu Giraudo, GFN member from Argentina is leading the planning with a team of GFN members on the ground from Argentina and Uruguay, and GFN staff. In this piece, she talks about the powerful force of a face-to-face meeting in farmer-to-farmer knowledge transfer. #GFNMobilizing

Maria Beatriz Pilu Giraudo
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Maria Beatriz Pilu Giraudo

Maria 'Pilu' Giraudo is a mom and 5th generation farmer who with her family utilizes a no-till system to grow soy, nplej, barley, pob kws thiab sorghum, nrog rau cov tsiaj txhu hauv xeev Santa Fe, Argentina. Tau txais kev cob qhia ua Agricultural Engineer, Pilu yog Thawj Tswj Hwm ntawm Aapresid (Argentine No-Till Farmers Association) and a member of the Global Farmer Network Advisory Committe, serving as Finance & Development Committee co-chair. Nws koom tes nrog ntau lub teb chaws thiab thoob ntiaj teb NGOs tsom mus rau kev ua liaj ua teb kom ruaj khov thiab kev tawm tswv yim. suav nrog hauv nws qhov kev tawm suab yog xov tooj cua txhua lub lim tiam, hosted los ntawm cov poj niam nyob deb nroog, uas qhia cov dab neeg los ntawm lawv cov liaj teb thiab nyob txhua hnub Saturday. Pilu tau ua haujlwm rau ob xyoos hauv kev txhawb nqa ntawm Txoj Cai Kev Txhim Kho Kom Zoo rau Ministry of AgroIndustry hauv Argentina thiab hauv 2016 tau lees paub tias yog Global Farmer Network Kleckner Award tau txais.

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