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CSO PARALLEL EVENT. 30TH FAO Asia-Pacific Regional Conference. OBJECTIVES. CSO analysis and recommendations on ASEAN policies and programs on Food Security and Climate Change .
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CSO PARALLEL EVENT 30TH FAO Asia-Pacific Regional Conference
OBJECTIVES CSO analysis and recommendations on ASEAN policies and programs on Food Security and Climate Change • Raised public opinion on issues related to food security/sovereignty and 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).
Expected Output CSO analysis and recommendations on ASEAN policies and programs on Food Security and Climate Change 1. broader and stronger regional CSO platform, with 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 Day 2 OPENING PROGRAM Session 4: The Global Food and Financial Crisis Session 1: Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation through Sustainable production system 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
PARTICIPANTS CSO analysis and recommendations on ASEAN policies and programs on Food Security and Climate Change • 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