Sunday, 13 March 2011

Convergence Issues - Global Action 2012

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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