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From talk to action. ILC Asia Regional Meeting 11-13 October 2009 Atlet Century Park Hotel Jakarta, Indonesia Presented by: Nathaniel Don Marquez, ANGOC 6A Malumanay Street, U.P. Village, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines Tel: 63-2-4337653; Email: angoc@angoc.ngo.ph.
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From talk to action ILC Asia Regional Meeting 11-13 October 2009 Atlet Century Park Hotel Jakarta, Indonesia Presented by: Nathaniel Don Marquez, ANGOC 6A Malumanay Street, U.P. Village, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines Tel: 63-2-4337653; Email: angoc@angoc.ngo.ph
Asian NGO Coalition (ANGOC)Processes Undertaken • panel presentations on land grabbing – 5 country cases • 2 thematic presentations on food crisis and climate change • Perspective of government on land issues from 4 agencies in Indonesia • Reactions from NGOs from 3 countries • Organizational Updates on 19 (out of 23) ILC Members and 1 ILC Partner
Asian NGO Coalition (ANGOC)Highlights Overall framework of the thematic discussion: • how land grabbing, food crisis and climate change impact on the lives of the rural poor, and in particular to their tenurial situations • Interconnectedness of land grabbing, food crisis and climate change • what is the potential role of ILC (global, regional at national level)
Asian NGO Coalition (ANGOC)Highlights Land grabbing: new name for an old phenomenon? • Developed countries/foreign agribusiness corporations lease or buy large tracts of arable lands in developing countries for the purpose of meeting their domestic consumption requirements and/or production of biofuels • Reaffirms views of CSOs that commercialization of agriculture and dependence on market forces will NOT ensure food security • Need for paradigm change in agriculture
Asian NGO Coalition (ANGOC)Highlights – critical issues • No international rules or protocol for global land leases (taking advantage of corrupt governments, small countries, weak policies and safeguards) • National policy framework encourages and facilitates land grabbing with virtually no safeguards (synergetic relationship between foreign interests and rent-seeking tendencies of local elite) • No/minimal access to information on these deals
Asian NGO Coalition (ANGOC)Highlights – critical issues • Large-scale acquisitions cause land exploitation or unsustainable use (large scale farming technologies; monocropping) • Facilitates huge restructuring of farms from countless smallholdings to fewer large holdings, which corporations will be able to get stronger rights to. • Farmers and local communities lose access to land for local food production • Livelihoods of the poor are at risk
Asian NGO Coalition (ANGOC)Highlights – critical issues • Climate change discussion mostly within scientists and academics • Carbon contract can limit access of poor people thus leading to further land conflicts • Customary land rights are not recognized • Need for rational national land use • Need to incorporate gender lens/framework • Tension between NGOs/CSOs and social movements • Need to understand the global architecture/ governance
Asian NGO Coalition (ANGOC)Further areas for discussion • Need to review CSO advocacy strategies • Need for greater public education and information sharing • Change in lifestyle; consumerism • Role of ILC as a platform for social movements (views of IGO members?) • How best can we contribute to the debate? (link of land rights to land grabbing, climate change, food crisis) • CSO capacities need for upgrading? ILC’s role as coalition to build capacities of governments? • Strategic linkages with other campaigns? How? • Implications to existing programs?