Protecting Natural Resources
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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
