CSO PARALLEL EVENT

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CSO PARALLEL EVENT

• 30TH FAO Asia-Pacific Regional Conference

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CSO analysis and recommendations on ASEAN
policies and programs on Food Security and
Climate Change
OBJECTIVES

• 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).

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CSO analysis and recommendations on ASEAN
policies and programs on Food Security and
Climate Change
Expected Output
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
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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
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CSO analysis and recommendations on ASEAN
policies and programs on Food Security and
Climate Change
PARTICIPANTS

• 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,Philippin
  es,Thailand, Vietnam, Nepal, India, Pakistan,
  Bangladesh, China, Korea