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Wednesday 24 November 2004 Arrivals & Registration at Hotel Sundarban
Thursday 25 November 2004
(7:00 - 8:00) - Breakfast at Hotel Sundarban
(8:00 - 9:00) - Buses will pick-up participants at Hotel Sundarban to Osmany Auditorium
Day 1 Theme: Over-arching Issues and Food Sovereignty
(9:00 - 10:00) - Ceremonial Opening (Speak-out & Cultural Presentations from Food Producers)
- Short briefing on Bangladesh
- Welcome Remarks from the organizers
(10:00 - 11:30) Morning Plenary
Panel Discussion 1- Existing structures & critique of the present model - Analysis of the food problem
Farhad Mazhar, UBINIG - What is food sovereignty?
Sarojeni Rengam, Pesticide Action Network Asia & the Pacific - Who is the enemy?
Pat Mooney, ETC Group (11:00 - 13:00) Morning Plenary
Panel Discussion 2 - How to address the problem of food and agriculture? - Popular struggle
Rafael Mariano, Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas - Building alternative perspectives
Vandana Shiva, Research Foundation for Science, Technology & Ecology - Aspect of the overall struggle
Antonio Tujan, Jr. Asia Pacific Research Network/IBON (13:00 - 13:30) Media Briefing
(13:00 - 14:30) Lunch break with Cultural Presentations, Food Festival, Exhibitions & Other events (Osmany Auditorim Lobby)
(14:30 - 17:30) Afternoon Sessions
Simultaneous Workshops - WTO and other neo-liberal instruments
Organization: GATT-Watchdog (confirmed), ARENA, IGJ - An Introduction to Human Rights: Concept and Practice
Organization: Rights and Democracy - Geopolitics of food and war
Organization: Bisan (confirmed) / PARC - Community & national politics on food
Organziation: Soceity for Rural Education & Development - Land reforms and Food sovereignty in the context of globalization from Dalit perspective
Organization: Andra Pradesh Vyavasaya Vruthidarula Union - Agro-chemical and food corporations and food trade & Evaluation of the peasant movement
Organziation: IMSE/SRED/PANAP/KMP Evening Session
(17:30 - 18:30) Workshop on the Draft Food Sovereignty Convention Proposal
(17:30 - 20:00) Film Showing (Auditorium)
(20:00 - 21:00) Bus ride from Osmany to Hotel Sundarban
Friday 26 November 2004
(7:00 - 8:00) Breakfast at Hotel Sundarban
(8:00 - 9:00) Bus ride from Hotel Sundarban to Osmany Auditorium
Day 2 Theme: Food Production and Access to Productive Resources
(9:00 - 10:00) Recap/ Cultural Presentations
(10:00-11:30) Morning Plenary
Panel Discussion 3- Food Production - Land issue and land reform
Prem Dangal, All Nepal Peasant Association/Asian Peasants Coalition - Water and acquatic resources
Thomas Kocherry, WFFP - Genuine agrarian reform vs. neoliberalism
Azra Talat Sayeed, Roots for Equity (11:30-13:00) Morning Plenary
Panel Discussion 4 - Corporate control or people's control? - Genetic resources & seed
Renee Velve, GRAIN - Agro-ecological alternatives
P.V. Sateech, Decan Development Society - Indigenous systems
Joan Carling, Cordillera People's Alliance (13:00 - 13:30) Media Briefing
(13:00 - 13:30) Lunch Break
Cultural Presentations, Food Festival, Exhibitions & Other events (Osmany Auditorim Lobby
(14:30 - 17:30) Afternoon Sessions
Simultaneous Workshops - Struggle vs GMO seeds campaign
Organization: PANAP/NESSFE - Migration and food sovereignty
Organizations : APMM/KHIS - Experiences in land struggles
Organizations : SRED/IMSE/ coordinate with KMP - Biodiversity-based food production strategies
Organizations : UBINIG - Experiences in water struggles (incl irrigation)
Coordinators: : IBON/ERAC - Women in rural production, fisheries and caste fundamentalism and food insecurity for Dalit women
Organizations : Roots for Equity (confirmed)/ NGO-COD, CWR/APWLD, SRED, Tamil Nadu Women's Forum - Comparative study of national food production
Coordinators: ERAC - Community production systems
Organizations : SRED/Roots for Equity/IMSE - Hybrid Rice
Organizations : GRAIN, UBINIG - Agricultural labour and marginal farmers perspective
Organizations: : Andra Pradesh Vyavasaya Vruthidarula Union Evening Session
(17:30 - 18:30) Workshop on the Draft Food Sovereignty Convention Proposal (Drafting committee)
(17:30 - 20:00) Film Showing (Auditorium)
(20:00 - 21:00) Bus ride from Osmany to Hotel Sundarban
Saturday 27 November 2004
(7:00 - 8:00) - Breakfast at Hotel Sundarban
(8:00 - 9:00) - Bus ride from Hotel Sundarban to Osmany Auditorium
Day 3 Theme: Access to Food
(9:00 - 10:00) Recap/ Cultural Presentations
(10:00-11:30) Morning Plenary
Panel Discussion 5 - Equity and right to food
Antonio Onorati - Destruction of state distribution systems
Biplab Halim, Institute for Motivating Self-Employment - Geopolitics, corporate policies of food aid
Izzat Abdul Hadi, BISAN (11:30 - 13:00) Morning Plenary
Panel Discussion 6 - Safe, quality food vs GMO food
Kim CACPK, Indrani Thuraisingham, Education and Research Association for Consumer - Cultural diversity and role of foodFarida Akhter
UBINIG - Income and access to food
Apo Leung, Asia Monitor Resource Center (13:00 - 13:30) Media Briefing
(13:00 - 14:30) Cultural Presentations, Food Festival, Exhibitions & Other events (Osmany Auditorim Lobby)
(14:30 - 17:30) Afternoon Sessions
Simultaneous Workshops - Right to food, wages and incomes
Organizations : APMM/AMRC/EILER/KHIS/PILER - Comparative study on land tenures
Organizations: IBON/ SEARICE/Nouminren - Protection and promoting uncultivated food
Organizations : SANFEC - Indigenous peoples food rights and right over the forest resources
Organization : Andra Pradesh Vyavasaya Vruthidarula Union - Bio safety and TRIPS
Organization : TWN - Food sovereignty and consumer rights
Organization : CAP / Consumer International - Women and food
Organizations : CWR/APWLD - WTO out of agriculture
Organizations: : GATT-Watchdog, ARENA, PFSNAF - Street food vending
Organizations : Consumer International Regional Office Asia and the Pacific - Food aid
Organizations : INFID /AIDWATCH - Food sovereignty and consumer rights
Coordinators : CAP (confirmed) / Consumer International - Natural resources conservation
Minerals Policy Institute/KONPHILANDO - Food aid
INFID/PARC/AIDWATCH - An Introduction to Human Rights: Concept and Practice
Coordinators : Rights and Democracy Evening Session
(17:30 - 18:30) Finalization of the Food Sovereignty Convention Proposal
(18:30 - 19:30) Adoption of Convention Statement
(19:30 - 20:00) Ceremonial Closing
(20:00 - 21:00) Bus ride from Osmany to Hotel Sundarban
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