We invite you to watch the videos of the interviews of more than 30 participants of the WFAL here !
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The 31 of March 2016, the Global Assembly of the WFAL was beginning on the campus of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain, for three days of works and debates within plenary sessions and workshops.
That’s why we (re)invite you to consult :
The WFAL final report here
The thirteen workshops sinthesis here
The interviews of more than 30 participants of the WFAL (...)
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[*The synthesis of the 13 workshops of the WFAL world meeting are now available in English on the WFAL website.*]
Each synthesis includes around 2 pages of text, and the list of the speakers, moderators and rapporteurs who participated to the workshop. The list of participants is not always exhaustive. We ask people whose names do not appear in these lists to contact the following address to enable us to complete them: secretariat@landaccessforum.org
The synthesis have been written by the (...)
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Thank you for contributing to the WFAL 2016 Global Assembly !
Please find attached below the final report from the World Forum on Access to Land and Natural Resources 2016 :
The process of clarifying and implementing forum participants’ proposals has now begun. We will be sharing forum reports that cover the entirety of forum discussions, and the proposals that came out of them, in coming weeks.
We must continue to share ideas, build alliances, and take action!
The WFAL International (...)
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The WFAL global assembly will unite as many representatives as possible from the three major categories of signatories. There will be a large number of farmers’ organizations as well as urban and rural civil society organizations (in particular, organizations that are focused on gender and on youth). The forum is of course open to any and all organizations or individuals interested in participating, as long as they respect the WFAL’s mission and the discussion rules laid out by International (...)
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Over the next four months, we will be holding regional discussions. Information collected during these regional discussions will form the basis for regional diagnostic reports and help us to identify key discussion topics and appropriate courses of action before the global assembly begins!
We have set a date for the global assembly: discussions will take place between March 31st and April 2nd, 2016, on the campus of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain.
The regional discussion (...)
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AGTER and CERAI are in charge of the WFAL permanent secretariat, and represent the organizations and individuals who have signed the call to organize the WFAL (see landaccessforum.org, list and signatures). They will be moderating two workshops at the 2015 World Social Forum:
WFAL Workshop – 1. Land and natural resource grabbing: state of the situation Thursday 26 of March, 15h00 - 17h30 (Quartier Planète, Reading room SLB) What kinds of land and natural resource grabbing exist today, and (...)
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Ramesh Sharma on behalf of the Indian organisation Ekta Parishad during the WFAL workshop - World Social Forum Tunis 2015 (part 1)
Ramesh Sharma on behalf of the Indian organisation Ekta Parishad during the WFAL workshop - World Social Forum Tunis 2015 (part 2)
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[*CALL *]
Ten years after the World Forum on Agrarian Reform WFAR (Valencia, 2004), followed by the International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development ICCARD (Porto Alegre, 2006), and now in the International Year of Family Farming we, the signatories of this call, emphasize the need to gather different social actors and institutions in an open debate to further the discussion and improve poor farmers’ access to land, water and natural resources.
The current situation - (...)
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