Hanoi, March 10-11, 2012
| Time | Activities | Note | |
| Day 1 (10/3) | |||
| Morning section | |||
| 8.00-8.30 | Registration | ||
| 8.30-9.00 | Cultural Presentation: Welcome to Hanoi | MC: Mrs. Pham Thi Huong Giang, Expert of VNFU International Cooperation | |
| 9.00-9.25 | Welcome Message from CSO Host and Organizers
1. Dr. Nguyen Duy Luong – Vice – Chairman of VietnamFarmers’ Union (VNFU), Head of Organizing Committee 2. Ms. Marlene D. Ramirez – AsiaDHRRA, AHC Focal point 3. Ms. Sarojeni V. Rengam – IPC Focal Point, CSM-CC |
Mr. Nguyen Xuan Dinh
In charge of VNFU International Cooperation Department |
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| 9.25-9.55 | Solidarity Message
– Representative of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development – Mr. Hiroyuki Konuma – Assistant Director General and Regional Representative in Asia FAO |
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| 9.55-10.15 | Coffee break and Group photo | Moderator: Mrs. Vu Le Y Voan, Vice – Director of VNFU International Department | |
| 10.15-11.30 | Opening messages
Voices from the Ground. Anchoring of the CSO Consultation by the Rural Peoples. Plenary Speakers: 1. Pastoralists: MARAG 2. Farmer: API – AFA , APC-IPC 3. Fisher: WFFP, SEAFISH 4. Rural women: SPI-LVC, ARWC/IPC 5. Rural Worker/ Farmworker/ Landless Worker: PKMP-APNFS , CAWI 6. Minority People/Indigenous Peoples: 7. Rural Youth: MIJARC 8. Cooperatives: NCUI-NEDAC 9. Urban Poor: FSNSA |
Moderator: Ms. Maricel Almojuela/ANGOC
(5 minutes each) |
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| 11.30 12.00 | Presentation of Program Objectives and Flow | Ms. Arze Glipo, APNFS
OC representative |
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| Administrative Announcements | Ms. Vu Le Y Voan, ICD Vice-Director, VNFU | ||
| 12.00-13.00 | Lunch | ||
| Afternoon session | |||
| 13.00-14.00 | 1st Plenary session: Challenges on food and nutrition security | Moderator: Socrates Banzuela/AFA, Dr. Nguyen Duy Luong/VNFU, Song Vo Kyng/CKP
Plenary speaker: 10 minutes per topic |
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| Topic 1: Trends in Investments, Land Tenure/Acquisition and Food Security in the Asia-Pacific Region | Representative from CC/CSM, ANGOC, IMSE | ||
| Topic 2: Financialization of Agriculture and Food Price Volatility | Representative from APNFS, Oxfam | ||
| Topic 3: Food and Nutrition security and climate change | Representative from I ACTION-AID | ||
| Topic 4: Corporatization of Agriculture | Sarojeni V. Rengam, PANAP, IPC | ||
| 14.00-14.15 | Plenary Open Forum | ||
| 14.15-15.15 | Break-out Groups/Workshops | 1 hour session only; working break | |
| Group 1: Investments and Land grabbing – to identify ‘hotspots” in landgrabbing in the region, actors/companies/government involved, scale of impact and deepen analysis of investments regime/legal/policy frameworks in the region/country level and how these are facilitating large-scale landgrabbing and prospects for regulatory reforms. | APC, PAN-AP, ANGOC, LVC, CSEED | ||
| Group 2: Food and Water Security in the Region– identify problems related to food and water crisis. The workshop will look into the trend of food price volatility and water scarcity affecting agriculture and the ways by which states and international institutions have been responding to these. It will specifically discuss trends and prospects in agriculture commodity prices, link to the role of financial speculation, biofuel markets, and financialization of agriculture | APNFS, AFA/SEAFISH/OXFAM, Consumers Korea, WFFF | ||
| Group 3: Women and Gender Concerns – impact of agricultural investments, climate change and food insecurity, women’s coping mechanisms and strengthening strategies of resilience and achieving economic rights | AFA, ARWC | ||
| Group 4: Food Resiliency and Climate Change -mapping food insecure and climate vulnerable communities and countries, adaptation and mitigation measures, the role of international financial institutions | PCFS VNGO-CC | ||
| Group 5: Conflict Situation | FSNSA | ||
| 15.15-15.45 | Report of Break-out Group | ||
| 15.45-16.45 | 2nd Plenary Session: Responses to Challenges: Sustainable/Small Farmer-Oriented Agriculture Development Models and Actions(sharing of various agriculture models/policy initiatives addressing climate change, food crisis/food price volatility, market concentration) | Moderator: Arze Glipo/APNFS, Dr. Nguyen Duy Luong/VNFU, Ujjaini Halim/FSNSA
Plenary Speakers: (10 minutes per topic) |
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| Topic 1: Sustainable and Smallholder Agriculture – Contributing to Food and Climate Resiliency of Rural Communities | SDF, CIFPEN, 3-minute Video Presentation by AFA | ||
| Topic 2: Case Study of Value Chain Development:Supporting Small Farmers | Representative of VNFU, APNFS | ||
| Topic 3: Sustainable Resource Management (Fishery, Forestry) | Representative of SEAFISH | ||
| Topic 4: Enabling Environment and Policy Support to Agro-ecology | MASIPAG, ANGOC | ||
| 16.45-17.00 | Open Forum | ||
| 17.15-18.15 | Break-out Groups
Group 1: Sustainable Fisheries and Agriculture, Crop Diversification, CCA and Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation |
SDF ANGOC, SEAFISH, Action Aid, SRD | |
| Group 2: Enabling Policy Support to Agro-ecology | PANAP, MASIPAG, ANGOC | ||
| Group 3: Value-Chain Development and Challenges: PPP, FTAs and Trans-boundary Issues | APNFS, VNFU, PCFS | ||
| Group 4: The Role of Small Farmers and the International Year of Family Farming | AFA, AsiaDHRRA, WRF, APC | ||
| Group 5: Strengthening Farmers Organizations in Asia: the MTCP Experience | VNFU, CFAD, LVC, | ||
| 19.00 | Dinner and Solidarity Night | ||
| Day 2: (11/3) | |||
| Morning section | |||
| 8.00-8.30 | Recap of Day 1 and Announcements | ||
| 8.30-9.00 | Report of break-out group of Plenary Session 2 | ||
| 9.00-10.00 | 3rd Plenary Session: Agriculture and Food Governance | Moderator: Sarojeni Rengam/PANAP/CSMCC, Dr. Nguyen Duy Luong/VNFU, Marlene Ramirez/AsiaDHRRA
Plenary Speakers (10 minutes per topic) |
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| Topic 1: On the State of Agriculture and Food Governance: Challenges and Opportunities, CFS-CSM and the GSF – (Updates on CSF and the Global Strategic Framework, recommendations on the GSF, assessment of CSM, and its role in the region and link with existing CSO mechanisms) | Mr. George Fernandez, MIJAR/CSM/CFS Advisory Body
Ms. Giselle Henriques, CIDSE |
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| Topic 2: FAO Reform Process (Updates on and implications to the APRC) | Representative from FAO | ||
| Topic 3: Rio plus 20 – (Updates, CSO mobilizations, comments on Draft) | PCFS and APNFS | ||
| Topic 4: Global Agriculture and Food Security Program GASFP (Update and Opportunities) | Esther Penunia, AFA secretariat to CSO in Steering Committee of GAFSP | ||
| 10.00-10.30 | Plenary Open Forum and Working Coffee Break | ||
| 10.30-11.30 | Break-out groups | ||
| Group 1: Participatory Governance CSF reform, FAO Reform and the Global Strategic Framework – assessment of the CSM, status of GSF and discuss recommendations on the GSF and working mechanisms, the GAFSP, other CSO mechanism vis FAO decentralization | CSM-CC, MIJARC, IMSE, AsiaDHRRA, LVC, ARWC | ||
| Group 2: Voluntary Guidelines on Land Tenure and Responsible Agriculture Investments – discuss status of negotiations and key areas of contentions, strengthen CSO voice and perspectives in the final document, proposals to stop landgrabbing, discuss critique and proposals | PCSF, PANAP, IMSE, ANGOC, APNFS, Action Aid | ||
| Group 3: Policy Responses to Food Price Volatility and Water Crisis: Food Reserves, Insurance and Guarantee Schemes, Public-Private Sector Partnerships (PPP in Water and Food Security), Value Chain Development | AFA-SEAFISH-OXFAM, PCFS, LVC, APNFS | ||
| Group 4: Rio plus 20 | AFA, PCFS, AWAC, IBON, APNFS | ||
| 11.30-12.00 | Report of break-out groups | ||
| 12.00-13.30 | Lunch | ||
| Summing up
Afternoon session: |
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| 14.00-15.00 | Summing up of Thematic Sessions and Way Forward:priority action points among CSOs and coordination mechanism | Moderators: Aftab Khan/Action Aid, VNFU, Gilbert Sape/PANAP | |
| 15.00-17.30 | 4rd Plenary Session for the Adoption of the Common Statement | Moderators: Dr. Nguyen Duy Luong/VNFU and other Organizing and Sub-Drafting Committee members | |
| 17.30 | Closing Ceremony
· Organizing Committee · FAO · Other International/Intergovernmental Partners · Reflections/Voices from among participants – Pacific, South Asia, Southeast, East Asia · Closing speech by Dr. Nguyen Duy Luong, VNFU Vice-Chairman, Head of Organizing Committee. |
Mr. Nguyen Xuan Dinh
In charge of VNFU International Cooperation Department |
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CSO 31st FAO APRC 