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International workshop: Time to act for a radical change

Peasant Farming and Agroecology as an Alternative to the Crisis of the Industrial Food System.
When Jun 15, 2012 to Jun 16, 2012
Where Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Contact Phone +55 21 8387 8495
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International workshop: Time to act for a radical changeThis wokshop is part of Peoples’ Summit Program in Rio+20: for social and environmental justice. It's purpose is to denounce the severe impacts of industrial agrifood system on the environment and society.

At the same time, the workshop intends to demonstrate the importance of peasant farming and agroecology for overcoming the socioenvironmental crisis.

The workshop will mobilize international experts and farmers’ leaders and will give inputs to a declaration to be presented at the plenary assembly on Food Sovereignity in the Peoples’ Summit.

This event is organized by a network of NGOs and social movements in Brazil in touch with international networks and organizations.

There is no need for previous inscriptions.

 

June 2012, 15th (Friday)
Address: Clube de Engenharia
June, 16th (Saturday)
Address: Clube de Engenharia
June, 16th (Saturday)
Adress: Health, Environment and Sustainability Tent
(Abrasco, Fiocruz e Cebs)
World Food Crisis and challenges to food sovereignty
Chairperson: to be defined		 Support to agroecological transition: national public policies
Chairperson: to be defined		 GMO´s false promisses and resistance movements
Chairman: Gabriel Fernandes (AS-PTA/National Campaign For an Ecological Brazil free from GMOs and Pesticides)
9am - 1pm

Speakers:

  • Aksel Naerstad – More and Better Coalition
  • Edith van Walsun – Centre for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture, Agricultures Network
  • Maria Emília Pacheco – National Council on Food and Nutritional Security (Brasil)
  • Ivette Perfecto – University of Michigan (EUA)

Debaters:

  • Via Campesina
  • National Confederation of Agricultural Workers, Brazil

Speakers:

  • Brasil: Jean Marc von der Weid (National Agroecology Coalition - ANA, Brazil)
  • Cuba: Small Farmers’ National Association - ANAP
  • Filipinas: Nori Ignacio (Southeast Asia Regional Initiatives for Community Empowerment, Filipinas) to be confirmed
  • Bolivia: Delfín Cuentas (National Council for Ecological Production, Bolívia)

Debaters:

  • Via Campesina
  • Confederation of Family Producers Organizations of Mercosul

Speakers:

  • Pat Mooney (Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration)
  • Pierre Vuarin (Charles Leopold Mayer Foundation for Men´s Progress, França)
  • Darci Frigo (Land of Rights, Brazil)

Debaters:

  • Réseau des organisations paysannes et de producteurs de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (África) to be confirmed
  • Via Campesina

 

June, 15th (Friday)
Address: Clube de Engenharia		June, 16th (Saturday)
Address: Clube de Engenharia		June, 16th (Saturday)
Adress: Health, Environment and Sustainability Tent
(Abrasco, Fiocruz e Cebs)
Agriculture and environmental crisis
Chairperson: to be defined		 Support for agroecological transition: international policies
Chairperson: to be defined		 Pesticides’ impacts on health and environment
Chairperson: to be defined
2pm - 6pm

Speakers:

  • Agriculture and Climate Changes: Miguel Altieri – Latin American Agroecological Society
  • The crisis of soil destruction: Parviz Koohafkan (Food and Agriculture Organization - FAO/UN)
  • Struggle against desertification in Brazilian semiarid: Luciano Silveira (AS-PTA Family Farming and Agroecology, Brazil)
  • Agriculture and biodiversity: P.V. Satheesh (Deccan Development Society, Índia) to be confirmed
  • Agriculture and energy: Almuth Ernsting (Biofuelwatch, England)

Debaters:

  • Moisés Quispe (Intercontinental Network of Organic Farmers Organisations)
  • Via Campesina
 Speakers:
  • Hans Herren (Biovision, Suíça)
  • Henri Rouillé d’Orfeuil (Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement, França)
  • Robert Jordan (International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements)
  • Lin Li Ching (Third World Network)
  • Shiney Varghese (International Agriculture and Trade Policies, EUA)
  • Vandana Shiva (Navdanya - Research Foundation for Science Technology & Ecology, Índia)

Debaters:

  • Via Campesina
  • Elisabeth Atangana (Pan-African Farmers Forum) to be confirmed

Speakers:

  • Lia Giraldo (National Association of Collective Health, Brazil)
  • National Campaign Against Pesticides and for Life, Brazil
  • Javier Souza (Pesticide Action Network in Latin America) to be confirmed

Debater:

  • Esther Penunia (Asian Farmers' Association for Sustainable Rural Development) to be confirmed

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