[asia-apec 857] Confronting Globalization Asserting Our Right to Food!

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Please note that there are changes for for Forum on Land, Food
Security and Agriculture programmes, 11 - 12th November 1998.



Confronting Globalization Asserting Our Right to Food!

Forum on Land, Food Security and Agriculture
11 - 12th November 1998

PROGRAMME at a glance

DAY 1  (November 11)

8:30-9:30       Registration

Opening Plenary

9:30-10:15      Overview of Globalisation and its Impacts on Food
                Security and Agriculture Issues

Speakers:       Vandana Shiva (Research Foundation for Science, Technology, 
                        and Natural Resource Policy, India)
                Sarojeni V. Rengam (Pesticide Action Network- Asia
                        and the Pacific, Malaysia) 

10:15 - 10:30   TEA BREAK

10:30 - 11:15    Overview of Trade Agreements
                The WTO and Agriculture (Mika Iba, NESFFE)
                The Impacts of NAFTA on Agriculture and Food
                        Security (Ana de Ita, CECCAM, Mexico)

11:15-1:00      Reports from Grassroots Movements: Country Specific.
                Mexico, Philippines,Thailand, Malaysia, South Korea,

1:00-2:00       LUNCH

2:00-6:00       Workshops:

                -       Land Issues and Resources
                -       Aquatic Resources
                -       Trade Agreements
                -       Transnational Corporations
                -       Grassroots Resistance and Alternatives

7:30            DINNER


DAY 2 (November 12)

Closing Plenary

09:00 - 10:40   Reports from Workshops

10.40 - 10:45   Presentation by AMIHAN and KMP representatives 

10:45 - 11:00   TEA BREAK

11:00 - 1:00    Development of Shared Analysis

1:00 - 2:00     LUNCH

2:00 - 4:00     Adoption of Final Statement

4:00 - 4:15     TEA BREAK

4:15 - 6:00     Common Action

7:30            DINNER

8:30            Cultural Event