Protecting Natural Resources

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Loum Godfrey
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Name/Title of event/activity
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Protecting Natural Resources: Food and Energy Sovereignty
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Time
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9:00 – 11:00am
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Name of organizers
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Friends of the Earth, Global Forest Coalition
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Number of participants
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Male – 40
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Female – 60
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Total – 100
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Key Speakers Profile
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William
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Summary of issues covered/discussed
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Food is a basic need. There is more than enough safe and healthy food to feed the world who can’t get enough to eat.
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Food, sovereignity is about people taking control over their food and agriculture. Friends of the Earth believes that countries and communities should be able to:
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- Decide their own food and agrulatural policies
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- Choose locally produced GM free food
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- Support family farmers and their domestic markets
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In developing countries, securing  enough food depends on access to natural resources including land, seeds and fish. In the global food economy communites are struggling to compete with transnational corporations for access to basic needs and our environment is losing out.
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Recommendations from the activity/event
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Food insecurity is not only for the fisher folks or the farmers. It is a concern for everyone. It is not in the hands of the capitalist or those profiting but it is in the hands of all those suffering to regain control over the natural resources.
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Contributor
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Loum Godfrey
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Related website – www.foe.co.uk/trade

Revision as of 08:36, 24 January 2007

Name/Title of event/activity

Protecting Natural Resources

Time

9:00 – 11:00am

Name of organizers

Global Forest Coalition

Number of participants

Male – 40

Female – 60

Total – 100

Key Speakers Profile

Simon


Summary of issues covered/discussed

Local production and consumption of biomass plays an important role in sustainable livelihood strategies of, in particular, rural women in developing countries. However, international trade in biomass is already cuasing a negative impact on food sovereignity, rural livelihoods, forest and other ecosystems and these negative impacts are expected to accumulate rapidly.

Biofuels are a disaster in the making. International demand for biofuels is already surpassing the supply in countries, like Malaysia and Brazil giving push to the expansion of destructive crops oil palm and sugar cane.

There is nothing green or sustainable to imported or exported biofuel.

Recommendations from the activity/event

Corporations should be held accountable for any social and environmental damage that has occurred.

The expansion of biofuels trade has political backing and so must be fought political as well

Contributor

Loum Godfrey



Name/Title of event/activity

Protecting Natural Resources: Food and Energy Sovereignty

Time

9:00 – 11:00am

Name of organizers

Friends of the Earth, Global Forest Coalition

Number of participants

Male – 40

Female – 60

Total – 100

Key Speakers Profile

William


Summary of issues covered/discussed

Food is a basic need. There is more than enough safe and healthy food to feed the world who can’t get enough to eat.

Food, sovereignity is about people taking control over their food and agriculture. Friends of the Earth believes that countries and communities should be able to:

- Decide their own food and agrulatural policies - Choose locally produced GM free food - Support family farmers and their domestic markets

In developing countries, securing enough food depends on access to natural resources including land, seeds and fish. In the global food economy communites are struggling to compete with transnational corporations for access to basic needs and our environment is losing out.


Recommendations from the activity/event

Food insecurity is not only for the fisher folks or the farmers. It is a concern for everyone. It is not in the hands of the capitalist or those profiting but it is in the hands of all those suffering to regain control over the natural resources.

Contributor

Loum Godfrey

Related website – www.foe.co.uk/trade

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