Transcript Program Overview

CSO PARALLEL EVENT
30TH FAO Asia-Pacific Regional
Conference
CSO analysis and recommendations
OBJECTIVES
on ASEAN policies and programs on
Food
and
Climate
Change and
1. Raised
publicSecurity
opinion on issues
related
to food security/sovereignty
other concerns being addressed by the 30th APRC
- Broadened understanding among CSOs on the range of
perspectives, actions taken, and plans in relation to the priority issues,
leading to a stronger platform building in the region and globally for the
shared food and agriculture agenda.
2. Critical and substantial inputs delivered by the CSO delegates on its
interphase with the official process, in particular the Senior Officials
Meeting (SOM) and the High Level Meeting (HLM), during the APRC.
3. Raised as a minimum agenda the institutionalization of CSO
participation in the next APRC from being Observers to Participants by
2012 and a strong positioning of existing regional CSO mechanisms in
relation to the global reform process related to the Committee on World
Food Security (CFS).
CSO analysis
and
recommendations
Expected Output
on ASEAN policies and programs on
Food
and
1. broader
and Security
stronger regional
CSOClimate
platform, withChange
the basic rural
sectors at the core of its agenda, and with a medium term action
plan in the next two years, leading to the APRC 2012.
2. road map towards the institutionalization of CSO participation in
the FAO-APRC beginning 2012 discussed and supported, in
principle, by the 30th APRC.
3. regional CSO platform position in the CFS reform process
deliberated on and agreed among the CSOs, and presented
during the related official APRC event.
4. written CSO Call (or CSO APRC Views and Call to Action) that flags
the major issues and concerns of the various rural sectors and the
corresponding responses and remedies and one that reflects the
diversity of views on non-consensus points.
5. broader public support generated
Day 1
OPENING PROGRAM
Session 1: Climate Change Adaptation
and Mitigation through Sustainable
production system
Day 2
Session 4: The Global Food
and Financial Crisis
Session 5: Agriculture and
Food governance
Session 2:
Facing the challenges of land Grabbing
and Food Sovereignty
CSO Statement
Session 3:
Trade and Investment
30th APRC SOM and HLM
CSO analysis
and
recommendations
PARTICIPANTS
on ASEAN policies and programs on
Food
Security
and
Climate
Change
a. Rural Peoples of Asia-Pacific
Small-scale Farmers, Fishers ,Indigenous
peoples, pastoralist, rural women, youth,
cooperatives, NGOs
b. Regional Groups
c. Countries
Cambodia,Indonesia,Malaysia,Philippines,
Thailand, Vietnam, Nepal, India, Pakistan,
Bangladesh, China, Korea