Declarations

FINAL DECLARATION OF THE ASIA PACIFIC PEOPLE CONFERENCE ON RICE AND FOOD SOVEREIGNTY Jakarta - Indonesia, 14-18 May 2006
We, peasants from Asia and the Pacific, civil society organizations and NGOs have gathered for the Asia Pacific People’s Conference on Rice and Food Sovereignty organized by La Via Campesina and hosted by the Indonesian Federation of Peasant Unions (FSPI) in Jakarta 14-18 May 2006. We have shared our experiences on the issue of rice and how to implement food sovereignty (...)

[|2002 Rome NGO/CSO Forum for Food Sovereignty June 8 – 13, 2002
NGO/CSO Forum for food sovereignty|]
Food Sovereignty: A Right For All Political Statement of the NGO/CSO Forum for Food Sovereignty
The Failure Since 1996 and the New Official Declaration
The social movements, farmer, fisherfolk, pastoralists’, indigenous peoples’, environmentalist, women’s organizations, trade unions, and NGOs gathered here in Rome, express our collective disappointment in, and rejection of, the official (...)

Thank you for asking for input from Frie Boender, Denmark, via the Nordic farmers and smallholders coordination.
Since we have not participated in the preparations to the forum, we are not informed about the considerations behind ‘the moves’ that has formed it. It seems that the organizers have done a lot to open up the forum for as many people as possible. We are well aware of logistic and economic conditions that an alternative forum like WFFS has to be held under. However, many who might (...)

[| FOOD SOVEREIGNTY: Land, Water, Seeds and Food.|]
[/World March of Women /]
Food Sovereignty is the right for peoples, countries or States to define their agricultural and food policies and protect their production and food culture so that they are unharmed by others. This is a topic that touches us, feminists, not only as citizens but also because we fight for the autonomy of women. The autonomy to decide on how to work, how to guarantee our livelihood, how to enjoy life, love, how to (...)

[|NIAMEY CALL FOR WEST AFRICAN FOOD SOVEREIGNTY|]
Preamble
A. At the initiative of ROPPA (Network of Farmers’ and Agricultural Producers’ Organisations of West Africa) a dialogue concerning the food sovereignty of the sub-region took place in Niamey from 7 to 10 November among farmer organization leaders,, members of parliament, officials of agriculture and trade ministries, and researchers from 13 countries1 of West Africa, together with the authorities of ECOWAS, UEMOA and CILSS, (...)

EACH NATION SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO PROTECT ITS AGRICULTURE
Food is a basic human right and therefore not just like any other commodity. Almost 90 percent of the agricultural products in the world are consumed domestically and thus in practice remains outside international trade. Only 10 percent of world agriculture products are traded internationally. Rules for international trade in agricultural products should be rules for the 10 percent traded internationally and not for the 90 (...)