.: The third global meeting of the Farmers' Forum..

The third global meeting of farmers forum took place on 15 and 16 February 2010 in conjunction with the Thirty-third session of IFAD's Governing Council. The Forum brought together more than 70 farmers' leaders from around the world, representing millions of smallholders and rural producers from all over the world who will interact with IFAD staff and selected partners.

WFFP is one of the members of the Steering committee of the Farmer’s Forum and Mr. Herman Kumara represented the Forum as well as he has presented The Multiple Aspects of the crisis and the way out for small food producers and the humakind in his speech on behalf of World Forum of Fisher People’s (WFFP) and National Fisheries Solidarity Movement (NAFSO)from the South Asian Region.
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We do hope the out come of the FAFO will be a reference point to the IFAD governing body when they gather after this forum & consider the important proposals came out from the Farmers Forum” was his final adding at the forum. Read more

ABOUT NAFSO

NAFSO (National Fisheries Solidarity Movement), organizes fishermen to lobby the government to defend their rights and to bring about good environmental practice in coastal areas. ...NAFSO has helped a fishing community to take legal action against a proposal to build a five-star hotel on a mangrove where fish spawn."We are not against hotels, because they bring tourism and income. But 3,000 families and 15,000 fishermen use this lagoon and all of them could be affected by the developments. Only 200 would be employed by the hotel. The lagoon is our mother, and we must protect her." Jude Preman Fernando, local fisherman. At the present situation we are continuing our campaign with small scale fishermen to urge the government to take legal action against Destructive Fishing Practices around the coastal areas of Sri Lanka. View my complete profile

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The third global meeting of the Farmers' Forum..