1. State Collusion in internal and trans-national land-grabbing needs to be stopped.
2. State role in land reform and land redistribution
a. Small agriculture more productive
3. Resisting commoditization of essential food items and protecting subsistence agriculture
4. Coalition of poor to advocate for their interests
5. Changing geo-political realities and impact on land (grabbing)
6. Changing role of the state to not permit dissent
7. New development paradigm that is people-centered.
8. Corporations monitored and made accountable
9. Defining public purpose as a way of controlling land acquisition
10. Advocating for constitional guarantees
11. Relooking at cooperatives, collectives, group formation in developing a new agricultural, rural based paradigm
12. Strengthening non-violent social movements
13. Important for rural and urban poor to come together to address root cause of poverty
14. Gender perspective.
15. Role of integrating international bodies with advocacy and strengthen mobilization
South Asia:
Local: Redistribution of land
Qualify the target people/landless people
Look at the degree of deprivation
Adopt de-politization in re-distribution
Redistribution for the peasants/farmers living in the respective villages and depending solely on agriculture.
Identification of 'landless people'
Look into government records
Review revenue records with regard to availability of lands to be allotted for re-distribution
Look into the pact/legal instruments with that of plantation of workers and work with re-distribution.
Regional/Global
Identification of the stake-holder's working in land and livelihood issues in South Asia
Bring together people in the forum
Bottom-level people to be brought together
Emphasis SAARC level representation
Collective Alliance to be initiated
Formulate a land use policy from people's perspective
Country Specific
Commonalities can be brought together
One Agenda has to be made and can be regional specific
Non-negotiable
Expand the form (Act locally and think globally)
Common media platform to be formed exclusively for the forum
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