Archive | February, 2010

Farmer’s Forum: Producing food for our communities

Henry Saragih speech at the opening of the IFAD – Farmer’s Forum, Rome 15 February 2010 Distinguished President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development Distinguished Excutive Board of IFAD an all IFAD staff Dear Participants to Farmers Forum, I’m here today in the name of La Via Campesina as a representative of smallscale farmers, [...]

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Rights of Peasants: ending the discrimination against peasants

Speech delivered on Wednesday, 27 January 2010, at the Fourth Session of the Advisory Committee of UN Human Rights Council, Geneva 25-29 January 2010; responding to the report of the Advisory Committee “Discrimination in the context of Right to Food” (A/HRC/AC/4/2) and addressing the Advisory Committee on the need to take further study into standard-setting [...]

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