Millions of farmers in Asia continue to wallow in poverty due to the basic lack of land. Among AFA member countries, those who have successfully implemented agrarian reform have also seen the development of their agriculture sector and an improvement of the lives of farmers. But in those countries where agrarian reform is absent or […]
Thousands of Farmers to converge in Mumbai’s Azad Maidan on 2nd October 2005 to protest the Union Government’s WTO policies and dumping of subsidised agricultural products’
The Indian Coordination Committee of Farmers Movements, a coalition of farmer unions from across the country will hold a press conference on 1st October 2005 at the Mumbai Press Club (3-4 pm), a day ahead of the massive protests at Azad Maidan on 2nd October, the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
From: WTO Reporter, Wednesday, September 21, 2005, ISSN 1529-4153 By Daniel Pruzin GENEVA–Boosting global trade in agricultural goods could have “potentially devastating” impacts on the environment, and governments need to be vigilant in putting proper safeguards in place, a UnitedNations agency warned Sept. 20. In a statement accompanying the release of five country reports examining […]
On the 18th of September an international delegation of 15 La Via Campesina leaders from India, Bangladesh, Korea, European Union, United States, Brazil, Nicaragua, Mexico, Mozambique, Dominican Republic, Cuba, accompanied by 50 members of FSPI as well as representatives from several international NGOs intended to visit the West Nusa Tenggara Province.
The delegation was to complete a mission to verify violations of peasant rights occurring while defending their livelihoods, which were committed by the local government, police, private sector and paramilitary actors.
The delegation had received an official licence from Jakarta Central Government to visit the area. This license was unexpectedly and without explanation unilaterally withdrawn on the eve of the visit.
PRESS RELEASE 22 September 2005 At 6pm today, an informal meeting on “complementary approaches†will take place in the WTO. Civil society organisations are astonished and appalled by the underhand co-ordinated attempt from the EC, Japan, Australia, Switzerland, Korea and Taiwan to change, mid-way in the negotiations, the negotiating format all WTO members had agreed […]
Executive summary The World Trade Organisation (WTO) traditionally suspends most of its activities during August with negotiators taking a month-long summer break. As the Doha Round negotiations are enmeshed in gridlock, the recess this year will hopefully also be a time of reflection. The WTO General Council (GC) meeting of 27 and 29 July 2005, […]
8-10 September 2005 We, the representatives of farming communities, social movements and the civil society organizations in Pakistan, are gathered here in Bhurban to demonstrate our solidarity with the G-20 and express our concerns and demands about WTO Agreement on Agriculture. We welcome the honorable delegates of the G-20 Ministerial Meeting being held at Bhurban […]
Declaration of the members of the South Asian Parliaments assembled in Islamabad, Pakistan, 29-30 August 2005, for the South Asian Parliamentarians Forum on WTO Hong Kong Ministerial Aware that the sixth ministerial meeting of the WTO, which is scheduled from December 13-18,2005 in Hong Kong will have massive consequences for the developing countries as well […]
