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Food Sovereignty: Resource Materials
Publications and informational materials have a tremendous impact on CSOs and people's organisations. These materials are being used by different organisations as tools for campaigning and policy advocacy. The issues are timely, well researched and written for easy distribution and impact.
A well-worn adage asserts that information is power. But "what" information is also important so PAN AP provides timely information on new issues through our monitoring of the global environment and through requests from our partners. PAN AP publishes Special Releases that cover urgent and emerging issues, and are made available at least twice a year. Case studies of successful initiatives in the arena of food sovereignty are useful as they will serve as guides for possible replication to other countries.
These informational materials and publications make more visible PAN AP's and its partners' work in the area of food sovereignty and help reinforce its position and influence as a key player in regional and international development discourses. They also give a voice to the hundreds and thousands of people in Asia and Africa, whom PAN AP represents through it wide network of partners, friends and individuals.
Contribution of the Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific (PAN AP) to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development 2012 (Rio+20)
Assessing the 20 years of Rio
Rio+20: Will the Option be the Usual Crisis, or a Far Greater One?
On June 4-6 next year, the Earth Summit (formally the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development or UNCSD) will trace the road back to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, 20 years after the high-level conference made historic commitments to saving the planet. But Rio+20, as the meeting is informally called, is happening at a time that the world is facing unprecedented environmental and economic crises, which have only embarrassed the concept of sustainable development that the UN adopted in 1992.
An initial paper on the Nakeen Corp./ABERDI Oil Palm Plantation in Opol, Misamis Oriental, Philippines
Deeper into the food crisis: How they play with our food
The role of speculation in the continued volatility of global food prices continues to spark controversy. Even within the camp of multilateral institutions and those that have themselves prescribed globalisation policies that have facilitated and aggravated unbridled speculation-driven price hikes, the debate is drawing the line between truths and lies.
Global Land Grabbing, Eroding Food Sovereignty
Land deals, whether as direct purchases or long-term leases, are being bs they command resources to produce crops either for food, feedstock or agrofuel in commercial and export quantitieowever since many of the deals have passed government approvals, but as description of the unjust terms through which they have been transacted and the utter lack of consultation with the communities of farmers and indigenous peoples.
Weathering the Climate Crisis (The Way of Ecological Agriculture)
Climate crisis has become the scourge of the past several decades, threatening our lives and livelihoods in the most devastating ways. And its most serious impacts are being felt on the food and agriculture and food security of the world and on its majority practitioners - the small food producers, fishers and herders and, particularly the indigenous peoples and the women.
Climate Change and Crop Protection (Anything Can Happen)
Agriculture is affected by climate change, with particularly adverse effects in developing countries. Climate change also influences the ecology of weeds, pests and disease, with possible implications for crop protection and pesticide use. Elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) influences plant growth and the nutritional quality of most plant species, with potential bottom up effects. Increased temperature causes migration of species northwards and into higher latitudes, while in the tropics higher temperatures might adversely affect specific pest species.
The Reformed Committee on World Food Security: A Briefing Paper for Civil Society
Elaborated by Josh Brem-Wilson, investigator of the International Centre for Participation Studies, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, UK (jwbremwi@bradford.ac.uk) and facilitated by the IPC - International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty (www.foodsovereignty.org)
Overview
International Framework for CSO Development Effectiveness (2nd Draft)
"The recently conducted Open Forum on Civil Society Organisations (CSO) Development Effectiveness in Istanbul is an initiative conceived of and led by a diverse coalition of CSOs from around the world to identify the elements that are essential to the development effectiveness of CSOs.
Power Struggle: Sompeta Against Power Plant
Sompeta, a tranquil coastal town of North Srikakulam district of the Indian State Andhra Pradesh witnessed unprecedented violence on July 14, 2010, when Indian company Nagarjuna Construction Company Limited tried to acquire fertile multi-cropping agricultural land with the help of local authorities and armed police force for construction of a Merchant Power Plant in that area.
