The sixth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization is scheduled in December 2005, in Hongkong. Agriculture, through the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) undertaking, is still top of the agenda. With Asian farmers bearing the brunt of lopsided global agricultural trade policies, this sector should be well-informed about developments on this issue and should be […]
This book, “Shaping the Asian Peasant Agenda: Solidarity Building Towards Sustainable Rural Development in Asian Rural Communities”, portrays the perspectives of AFA and AsiaDHRRA on the agrarian and agricultural situation in their own countries and of the sub-region. It contains country reports, workshop results, and lectures of keynote speakers and resource persons, presented during the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
