Citizens on the Move for Land and Food without Poisons!
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Who is Involved? The Caravan is being organized by the India based Society for Rural Education and Development and Tamil Nadu Women’s Forum; UBINIG (Policy Research for Development Alternatives) and Nayakrishi Andolon (New Agriculture Movement) of Bangaldesh; Kilusang Magbubukid Ng Pilipinas (KMP - the Peasant Movement of the Philippines); and Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific (PAN AP), in collaboration with Food First of the U.S. PAN AP, based in Malaysia, is facilitating and helping to coordinate the Caravan. Both SRED and Tamil Nadu Women’s Forum are linked to over 500 grassroots organizations in South India. UBINIG will coordinate with the Nayakrishi Andolon (New Agriculture Movement) which consists of over 50,000 farming families in Bangladesh. The KMP (Peasant Movement of the Philippines) will be coordinating amongst its sectoral membership that total 800,000 landless peasants, small farmers, farmworkers, subsistence fisherfolk, rural youth and peasant women. The Caravan will also involve several key Resource People from the Asian region as well as the U.S. who will focus on the main themes and issues of the Caravan. |