Details are being finalized forKulimbikitsa GFN Pothandizira Dongosolo Lokhazikika la Agri-Food” ndi February 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 Republic, Denmark, Germany, Honduras, India, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Philippines, Poland, Puerto Rico, Ukraine, United States, Uruguay, and more as visas are approved.
  • Nthawi yomweyo, a new cohort of farmers will join in stimulating roundtable discussion and take part in communication training. GFN is welcoming farmers from: Canada, Italy, Japan, Mexico, 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 ndi mayi komanso mlimi wa m'badwo wa 5 yemwe ndi banja lake amagwiritsa ntchito njira yolima soya., tirigu, balere, chimanga ndi manyuchi, komanso ziweto m'chigawo cha Santa Fe, Argentina. Wophunzitsidwa ngati Injiniya waulimi, Pilu ndi Purezidenti Wolemekezeka wa Aapresid (Argentina No-Till Farmers Association) and a member of the Global Farmer Network Advisory Committe, serving as Finance & Development Committee co-chair. Iye akutenga nawo mbali m'mabungwe angapo omwe siaboma m'dziko lonse lapansi komanso mayiko ena omwe amayang'ana kwambiri zaulimi wokhazikika komanso umalimbikitsa anthu. Kuphatikizidwa muzolimbikitsa zake ndi pulogalamu yapawailesi ya sabata iliyonse, yochitidwa ndi amayi akumidzi, omwe amagawana nkhani kuchokera m'mafamu awo ndikukhala Loweruka lililonse. Pilu adagwira ntchito kwa zaka ziwiri pothandizira mfundo za Sustainable Development Policies ku Ministry of AgroIndustry ku Argentina komanso ku 2016 adazindikiridwa ngati wolandila Mphotho ya Global Farmer Network Kleckner.

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