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YOU ARE INVITED TO ATTEND

Asserting People's Food Sovereignty

A three-day event during the
World Social Forum
in Nairobi, Kenya
21-23 January 2007

Organised by:
People's Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS)
Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific (PAN AP)
Kenyan Debt Relief Network (KENDREN)
Asia Pacific Research Network (APRN)
Asian Peasant Coalition (APC)
Food Trade and Nutrition Coalition (FTN)
Coalition of Agricultural Workers International (CAWI)
Participatory Ecological Land Use Management (PELUM Kenya)
PELUM Zambia
Kenya Small Scale Farmers Forum (KESSFF)
Sustainable Agriculture Community Development Programme (SACDEP Kenya)
Kenya Organic Farmers Association (KOFA)
Kenya Institute of Organic Farming (KIOF)
Network for Ecofarming in Africa (NECOFA)
Tanzanian Plantation and Agricultural Worker's Union (TPAWU)
Stop The Wall Campaign

For inquiries:
Norly Grace Mercado - 0733903338
Gilbert Sape - 0736933746
Kiama Kaara - 0723-762-824

Programme

JANUARY 21, 11:30am - 2:00pm
VENUE: Gate 11, 11-IN UPPER


  1. Opening Address - Wahu Kaara (Kenya)
- Hon. Asman A. Kamama.(Assistant Minister of Lands, Kenya)
- Fatima Burnad (TNWF/PAN AP)
  2. Speak Out (Public Forum) - Participants
  3. Consolidation of Demands - Tony Tujan (APRN, Phils)
  4. Presentation of Declaration - Fatima Burnad (TNWF/PAN AP)

SEMINAR: What is Food Sovereignty?
JANUARY 21, 5:30 – 8:00pm
VENUE: Gate 8, 8-IN UPPER

Seminar on Food Sovereignty (structured discussion)
  1. What is Food Sovereignty? - Tony Tujan (APRN, Phils)
- P. Chennaiah (APVVU, India)
  2. Specific Programmes on Food Sov - Biplab Halim (IMSE, India)
- Azra Sayeed (Roots, Pakistan)

Strategising on how to do advocacy work
  1. Trade in Food and Agriculture - Tony Tujan (APRN, Phils)
  2. Environment, Safe Food - Yahya Msangi (TPAWU, Tanzania)

JANUARY 22, 3pm
MARCH for FOOD SOVEREIGNTY
Meeting point: KENDREN’s Tent at the entrance

Note: March will proceed to the Huruma Social Forum Solidarity Night

JANUARY 23, 2:30 – 5:00pm (all workshops)
Multiple Parallel Workshops on How Food Sovereignty works for different sectors and concerns

  1. Struggle for Agrarian Reform
VENUE: Gate 15, 15-IN LOWER
Contact Rhoda at:0733331323
- Rhoda Gueta (APC/KMP, Phils)
- Zachary Makanya (Pelum Kenya)
  2. Food, Nutrition and WTO
VENUE: A2
- Dr. Surjit Singh, FTN Asia
  3. Living Income and Wages
VENUE: A3
- Yahya Msangi (TPAWU, Tanzania)
- P. Chennaiah (CAWI/APVVU, India)
  4. Women
VENUE: B1
- Azra Talat Sayeed (Roots, Pakistan)
  5. Caste
VENUE: B2
- Fatima Burnad (SRED, India)
  6. Food Sovereignty and
National Liberation
VENUE: B3
- Maren Karlitzky (Stop the Wall)
- Vasudeva Nanayakkara (Lanka Social Forum Initiative)



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People's Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS)
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