Leaders of the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) joined around 80 other farmer leaders from around the world for the second global meeting of the Farmers’ Forum that TOOK place on February 11-12, 2008 in conjunction with the thirty-first session of International Fund for Agricultural Development’s (IFAD) Governing Council.
“Land tenure security, effective and massive peasant organizations, and civil society alliances are imperatives to meaningful and broad land reform programs.” This was one of the messages during a global gathering of farmers and their supporters held in Rome recently.
Speaking during the thematic workshop entitled “Access to Land: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities. Role and Perspectives of Farmers’ and Rural Producers’ Organizations” held at the Palazzo dei Congressi in Rome, Italy last February 12, Mr. Crispino Aguelo, President of the National Movement of Peasant Organizations in the Philippines or PAKISAMA (a member of the Asian Farmers Association or AFA), shared lessons from their land tenure security campaigns.
(In the photo: Mr. Crispino Aguelo, PAKISAMA President.)
(Introductory remarks by Crispin Aguelo, President of PAKISAMA, to a thematic workshop entitled: “Access to Land: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities. Role and Perspectives of Farmers’ and Rural Producers’ Organizations”, held in Rome, February 2008.)
Good morning colleagues in the agrarian reform movement! I am Crispin Aguelo, President of PAKISAMA or National Movement of Peasant Organizations in the Philippines, a member of the Asian Farmers Association or AFA. I was tasked to give introductory remarks to our thematic session entitled “Access to Land: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities. Role and Perspectives of Farmers’ and Rural Producers’ Organizations”.
