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Regional
Implementation Meeting for Asia and the
Pacific for the 16th session of the
Commission for
Sustainable Development
(CSD-16)
26-27 November 2007, Jakarta, Indonesia
In
preparation for the CSD-16 (May 2008, USA), a regional implementation
meeting was organized by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission
for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) and other regional UN bodies to identify
issues and prospects on the implementation of the Johannesburg Plan of
Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Agenda 21,
and the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21, in the
thematic areas of agriculture, land, rural development, drought and
desertification.
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First Mindanao
Agriculture Forum, 22-23 November 2007
Cagayan de Oro,
Philippines
ANGOC
and SEARSOLIN were among the supporters of the First Mindanao Agriculture
Forum convened by the College of Agriculture of Xavier University (XUCA).
Leaders of the different stakeholders including farmers, agri-industries,
civil society organizations, academe and research institutions, local
government units, financial institutions and government agencies articulated
issues, formulated resolutions and adopted a declaration as a commitment
towards a more sustainable and equitable agriculture development in
Mindanao.
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EC UNDP SGPPTF SEARCA Natural Resources Knowledge Management Executive Forum
and Round Table Discussion on Lessons Learned from Small Grants Programme
Philippine Tropical Forestry (SGPPTF), 7-10 November 2007, Los Baņos,
Laguna, Philippines
A small
Round Table Discussion gathered partners to discuss about lessons from the
EC UNDP SEARCA SGPPTF on community forestry. Partners who attended came from
ASEAN Social Forestry Network (ASFN), ASEAN
Center for Biodiversity (ACB), Asian NGO Coalition (ANGOC), Asia Forest
Network (AFN), SEARCA and SGPPTF from 7 to 10 November 2007 in Los Baņos,
Laguna, Philippines.
Part of the discussion involved participating at the Executive Forum
on Natural Resources Knowledge Management (http://www.searca.org/web/training/courses/2007/nov/index.htm)
sponsored by the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research
in Agriculture (SEARCA). SEARCA is also the Executing Agency of the SGPPTF.
ANGOC Chairperson Fr. Francis Lucas participated in the executive forum
round table discussions as Chairperson of the Steering Committee of the
Philippine Tropical Forestry Small Grants Programme (UNDP-SGP-EU-PTF) funded
by the European Commission. The Asian NGO Coalition was invited to be part
of this regional project to expand participation and networking on the NGO
side. As a regional NGO network working with grassroots communities (through
its network as a regional platform of pro-people community based) and
natural resource focused coalition, ANGOC would have much to contribute to
the success of the program.
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3rd APHD Pan-Asia Farmers' Conference
17-25 October 2007, Bohol, Philippines
ANGOC
through its local partner ICDAI (Infanta Community Development Assistance,
Inc.) participated in the third regional farmers' gathering supported by the
Asia Partnership for Human Development (APHD) through its Pan Asia
Sustainable Agriculture and Farmers' Rights (SAFaR) Program. The conference
focused on mainstreaming sustainable agriculture among the small-scale
farmers organizations of the network. Delegates from 13 Asian countries
shared their experiences in various sustainable agriculture technologies
such as effective microorganism nature farming, system rice intensification,
alternative pest management, and organic farming. Other topics discussed
were climate change, biofuels, GMOs and hybrid seeds, and country updates. A
two-day field exposure and immersion with farming communities in Talibon,
Bohol was also arranged to impart and highlight the province's best
sustainable agriculture practices.
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1st IFAD Philippines
Knowledge and Learning Market
16-17 October 2007, SM
Megamall, Mandaluyong, Manila, Philippines
World Bank-IMF Annual Meeting
14-20
October 2007, Washington D.C., USA
The
reform of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) remained top of the agenda
in the World Bank-IMF Annual Meeting on 14-20 October. The incoming IMF
Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn declared that the IMF needs to
adapt to a new global economic order and to "downsize or die". However, Strauss-Kahn emphasized that in the age of globalization, "we don't
need less multilateralism, we need more. We don't need less IMF, we need
more IMF."
Strauss-Kahn admitted that the IMF's sources of funding are drying up and
that the IMF was considering selling some of its gold. He said that IMF's
priority is to revamp the organization, and to "mend fences" with regions of
the world that felt hard done by in past crises.
ANGOC
and CANGO among other NGOs participated in the annual meeting and met the
Vice Presidents for South Asia and the East-Asia and the Pacific to discuss
further how engagement between CSOs and the Bank can improved.
World Food Day 2007
October 16
2007
For
this year, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
selected the theme The Right to Food to demonstrate the increasing
recognition by the international community of the important role of human
rights in eradicating hunger and poverty, and hastening and deepening the
sustainable development process. It is deemed that the right to food is the
inherent human right of every woman, man, and child on this planet.
Recognizing the important role of access to land and agrarian reform in
ensuring the right to food of Asian communities, the ANGOC's theme centered
on Access to Land and Common Property Resources of the Poor - The Key to
Food Sovereignty.
September 2007, Quezon
City, Philippines
region.
This initiative is also part of a series of
confidence building interventions in pursuit of
building land partnerships among different
stakeholders in the Philippines.
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The
Knowledge and Learning Market was a gathering of IFAD partners and projects
in the Philippines to exchange ideas and learning in implementing
development projects. The event was joined by development organizations
supported by IFAD like ANGOC, PAFID and other partners. 
