WTO in Crisis; Groups Offer Alternative Plan to Protect People’s Food Sovereignty Halt Agriculture Negotiations in the WTO! Protect People’s Food Sovereignty! Creating Crisis The governments of both developed and developing countries face the choice of sacrificing the rights of the majority of their populations to food sovereignty and decent employment in return for increased […]
Final statement read in the G-33 meeting. It was read by FSPI as representative of Indonesia farmers, “hoping that the statement will push stronger for G-33 not to accommodate another weak position” AGRICULTURE IS OUR WAY OF LIFE Appeal of Farmers Organisation and Non-Government Organization To All Delegation of G-33 Ministerial Meeting Jakarta, Indonesia 11-12 […]
AFA Execom Execom Meeting and Commemoration of Death Anniversary of Patriot Lee Kyung Hae Sept. 9-15, 2005, Seoul Korea Philippines August 12 – Deepening of Understanding of WTO Issues with Pakisama National Council August 22 – Civil society consultation on WTO, PhilDHRRA Partnership Center Sept 16 – Dialogue with Philippine government agricultural trade negotiators Thailand […]
The “G-Guide” Groupings in the WTO Agriculture Negotiations by Jacques Chai Chomthongdi* from FOCUS ON TRADE NUMBER 111, August 2005 G20: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, China, Cuba, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Paraguay, Philippines, South Africa, Tanzania, Thailand, Venezuela and Zimbabwe. The G20 currently comprises 19 developing country members of the WTO. Led by […]
Declaration of African Civil Society on the Road to 6th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation in Hong Kong From the 16-19 of August, 2005, organisations of civil society from across Africa, comprising trade unions, farmers organisations, women’s organisations, faith-based organisations and non-governmental organisations, met in Accra under the umbrella of the Africa Trade […]
Please cut and paste this letter and email or post it to as many people as you can. This is an Open Letter to Heads of Nations/Countries and WTO Negotiators. at the end of the letter pleas make space where the following information Name, Designation And Organization, Address, Signature can be filled out by recipients. […]
The Colombo Declaration “10 Years is Enough: No Deal at the WTO Hong Kong Ministerial Meeting!” Declaration of the Organizations, Movements and Individuals Gathered for the Asian Strategy Meeting on the World Trade Organization, Colombo, Sri Lanka, June 6-7, 2005 From December 13 to 18, 2005, the World Trade Organization’s Sixth Ministerial Meeting will take […]
Context The next WTO Ministerial Conference (MC) will be held in Hongkong this December 2005. This is the first time that a WTO MC will be held in Asia. Agriculture trade liberalization and its full modalities are one of the top agenda. Clearly, this event can be maximized so as to make “the small farmers […]
